Document guide apparatus for pocketing documents

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Abstract of the Disclosure, An apparatus which facilitates the pocketing of documents in a pocket in a business machine like a sorter. As a document is to be pocketed it is moved, along a rib structure (located on a pusher plate) which has a decelerating portion thereon to decelerate the document and to move the document against a side member in the pocket as it approaches a stop member within the pocket to thereby minimize the noise created by the first few documents entering the pocket. A second rib structure positioned near the top edge of the pusher plate engages the leading edge of a document to direct the document against a side wall in the pocket to also minimize the noise mentioned.