Sheet feeding or delivering – Feeding – Separators
Patent
1996-02-13
1997-11-25
Terrell, William E.
Sheet feeding or delivering
Feeding
Separators
271 91, 271 92, 271 11, 271161, 271 322, 271 401, 271 5, 271145, 271 14, B65H 346
Patent
active
056903278
ABSTRACT:
A system for light-tight handling of a supply of media between a supply station, a workstation and a collecting station, comprises a media handling apparatus defined by a frame and a housing enclosing an internal confine. Within this confine are a supply station and a collecting station disposed at opposite ends of the frame. A positioning drive is suspended above the supply and collecting stations to move media between the supply, collecting and work stations. A lifting shoe is provided as part of the positioning drive and includes a flexible material handling sheet which assumes a first and a second given radius when respectively energized and reverse energized to engage the media supported in curved form. Also, supply and collecting cassettes are provided with a tambour coverings for respectively automatically uncovering and covering the supported media while still maintained in the light-tight confines of the housing.
REFERENCES:
patent: 971245 (1910-09-01), Cheshire
patent: 4772006 (1988-09-01), Guglielmetti et al.
patent: 5535997 (1996-07-01), Croyle et al.
Conlan Joseph
Menard Alan W.
Wolfson Larwence S.
Gerber Systems Corporation
Terrell William E.
Tran Khoi H.
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