B - Operations – Transporting – 65 – H
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
65
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B65H 3/06 (2006.01) B65H 1/02 (2006.01) B65H 3/60 (2006.01) B65H 5/00 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2058478
Abstract of the Disclosure Apparatus for feeding and separating seriatim a sheet of paper from a stack of sheets. The apparatus includes: an adjustable deck having a receiving end and a feeding end for supporting the stack of sheets on edge, the deck being oriented at an angle between about 10 and 20 degrees to a horizontal plane and wherein the feeding end is lower than the receiving end; a main urge roller situated above the feeding end of the deck at about midway between the top and bottom edges of the stack of sheets, whereby the stack is bent at a point in the sheets about midway between the top and bottom edges of the sheets; a secondary feed roller parallel to and situated above the main urge roller near the top edge of the stack of sheets, wherein a line of tangency joining the peripheries of the main urge roller and the feed roller adjacent the stack of sheets is disposed at an angle between about 40 and 50 degrees to a horizontal plane; a device for urging the stack against the main urge roller as the stack is reduced in the course of the feeding of the sheets seriatim; a device downstream of the secondary feed roller for separating the bottom sheet from the stack of sheets at the top edge of the stack; and a device for adjusting the height of the adjustable deck without changing the angle of orientation of the deck whereby the deck can be set to the optimum height for feeding a given size sheet.
Spiers James A.
Stepan Constance R.
Macrae & Co.
Pitney Bowes Inc.
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