Sheet feeding or delivering – Feeding – With means to align sheet
Patent
1984-08-30
1985-12-31
Stoner, Jr., Bruce H.
Sheet feeding or delivering
Feeding
With means to align sheet
271245, 271232, B65H 906
Patent
active
045616469
ABSTRACT:
A mechanism for registering sheets, respectively notched at their leading edge and transported by a sheet transport apparatus along a travel path, in both an in-track and cross-track direction at a preselected location in such travel path. The registration mechanism comprises an elongated member supported for movement transverse to its longitudinal axis. Such member is selectively movable along its longitudinal axis to a first position intercepting the travel path adjacent to the preselected location or a second position remote from the travel path. When the member is in its first position, a portion of the member is received in an opening of a receiver located adjacent to the travel path. The opening is oppositely directed to, and generally aligned with, the notch in the lead edge of a transported sheet. Thus when the transported sheet engages the member, the member is urged by the portion of the sheet forming the notch into the opening. When the member is fully seated in the opening, the member urges the transported sheet in a cross-track direction until the member is fully seated in the notch so that the sheet is registered in both an in-track and cross-track direction.
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Alksninis Audra T.
Ellis Richard G.
Eastman Kodak Company
Goffney, Jr. Lawrence J.
Kessler Larry P.
Stoner Jr. Bruce H.
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