Multibin shingling type stack feeder
CA 1079762 A · Owner: International Business Machines Corporation · Inventors: Kollar, Ernest P.; Mares, Fred R.; Fallon, John L.
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A multibin cut-sheet xerographic copier capable of operating in a simplex or a duplex copy mode, wherein sheets are fed from a selected sheet stack, one at a time, to the copier's transfer station by a sheet feeding, means which includes a coming wheel. The combing wheel shingles the leading edge of the stack's top sheet to an open feed roller nip to be, sensed thereat by a pneumatic sensor. Sensing of this leading edge causes the combing wheel to be lifted off the stack. Subsequently at a time de-, termined by the copier's control logic the drive nip closes to thereby feed, the top sheet to the copier's paper registration gate and then to its, transfer station. As soon as this sheet's …
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- Granted June 17, 1980. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended June 17, 1997.
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