Device for individually separating flat objects, especially postal correspondence and the like, and spacing them at constant distances apart

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Device for individually separating flat objects especially, postal correspondence and the like and spacing them at, constant distances apart" ABSTRACT, A separator-spacer device for flat objects such as, postal correspondence, able to operate equally on a stream of objects or on a loose pack of objects. The flat objects to be handled are fed into the V space formed by the opposing branches of two bands which are urged resiliently against each other in order to define a first pinch point. One of these bands is of a material having a high coefficient of friction and moves in the feed direction of the objects whereas the other band moves at a lower speed in the opposite direction and has a …