Sheet feeding or delivering – Feeding – Separator and conveyor
Patent
1979-06-01
1982-01-12
Stoner, Jr., Bruce H.
Sheet feeding or delivering
Feeding
Separator and conveyor
271103, 271106, 271112, 271118, B65H 306, B65H 308, B65H 354
Patent
active
043101518
ABSTRACT:
A sheet feeding apparatus comprising a vertically movable vacuum plate having openings for sucking sheets individually and for allowing sheet feeding rollers to extend therethrough for translating the sucked sheets, wherein a sheet pressing portion is formed in the vacuum plate to form a space between the forward end portions of the sheets and the vacuum plate prior to the suction of the sheets. In another embodiment, instead of the sheet pressing portion, a sheet feeding roller mounted on the vacuum plate is utilized as the sheet pressing element, so that the sheets are pressed before being sucked causing the suction force to be applied to the forward end portions of the sheets.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3199863 (1965-08-01), Muller
patent: 3314676 (1967-04-01), Fromm
patent: 3465129 (1969-09-01), Mitchell
patent: 3964740 (1976-06-01), Lamb
Ricoh & Company, Ltd.
Stoner Jr. Bruce H.
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