Sheet feeding or delivering – Feeding – Pack holders
Patent
1984-02-06
1986-01-28
Stoner, Jr., Bruce H.
Sheet feeding or delivering
Feeding
Pack holders
271 31, 271 311, 271126, 271152, 271155, B65H 102
Patent
active
045666857
ABSTRACT:
A document feeding device having a hopper oriented at an acute angle with respect to a horizontal plane, the hopper having an upstream aperture and a downstream aperture and able to support a pack of documents to be fed therefrom, a device situated at the lower end of the hopper for feeding documents seriatim from the hopper, a first pulley whose outer surface extends slightly through the downstream aperture and a second pulley whose outer surface extends slightly through the upstream aperture, and a double sided timing belt mounted on the first and second pulleys and riding on the upper surface of the hopper. The document feeding device also includes a switch in contact with the lead document of the pack of documents, the switch having contacts which close when the angle of repose of the pack of documents relative to the hopper is sufficiently decreased, and a solenoid operatively connected to one of the pulleys and to the switch, wherein when the contacts are closed, the solenoid is energized to index the one pulley, whereby the timing belt is indexed forward, thereby moving the pack of documents forward and maintaining the pack of documents at an optimum pack pressure and angle of repose for seriatim feeding.
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patent: 3047290 (1962-07-01), Thomsen
patent: 3580567 (1971-05-01), Hashimoto
IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, "Horizontal Timing Belt Driven Feed Hopper" by Diel et al., vol. 13, No. 2, Jul. 1970, pp. 438 & 439.
Irvine Robert
Roetter Frank T.
Stearns Willis R.
Carroll John A.
Pitney Bowes Inc.
Scribner Albert W.
Sklar Lawrence E.
Soltow, Jr. William D.
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