Envelope feeding apparatus

Details Envelope feeding apparatus Envelope feeding apparatus

1984-10-29

1987-01-13

Love, John J.

Sheet feeding or delivering

Feeding

Separators

221259, 221277, 271121, 271126, 271149, B65H 306

Patent

active

046359222

ABSTRACT:
An envelope feeding apparatus, including a hopper having a support deck and a pair of vertical sides extending upwardly from the support deck, the support deck being oriented at an acute angle with respect to a horizontal plane, a separator roller and a separator stone situated at the lower end of the hopper for feeding envelopes seriatim from the hopper, a center ramp located upstream of the separator roller and the separator stone, the center ramp extending only a small portion of the distance between the vertical sides of the hopper, a center feed roller located above the downstream portion of the center ramp and proximate the separator stone, whereby the lower corners of the envelopes are raised off the support deck when the envelopes are translated along the center ramp and under the feed roller, thereby allowing the envelopes to approach the separator roller and the separator stone unskewed.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2080968 (1937-05-01), Krell
patent: 2195576 (1940-04-01), Metzger
patent: 4030723 (1977-06-01), Irvine et al.
patent: 4039180 (1977-10-01), Stocker
patent: 4039181 (1977-10-01), Prewer

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