System for feeding and transporting documents

Details System for feeding and transporting documents System for feeding and transporting documents

2007-07-03

2007-07-03

Mackey, Patrick (Department: 3653)

Sheet feeding or delivering

Feeding

Pack holders

C271S160000

Reexamination Certificate

active

10855752

ABSTRACT:
A system for feeding and transporting documents includes a feeder stage and a transport stage. The hopper assembly includes a hopper floor that carries the document stack and a flag that provides a force to move the documents along the hopper floor toward the feeder. A fixed force means biases the flag with a fixed force while a spring means biases the flag with a variable spring force. The spring force varies with flag position to cause each document in the stack to be fed with an appropriate force due to spring force decreasing as the stack size diminishes.

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