Automatic document feeder/separator for copiers
CA 1303633 C · Owner: Looney, John H. · Inventors: Looney, John H.
Overview
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In a sheet feeding system for a copier for the sequential, separation and feeding of individual sheets from a stack of sheets by an impact type sheet feeder, there is provided a plural mode stack repositioning system for automatically repositioning the top sheet of the stack of sheets into an optimum feeding position relative to the impact sheet feeder, which optimum feeding position is closely adjacent to but, slightly spaced below, a maximum limit position of the top of the stack. This stack repositioning system further provides a retard repositioning mode in which the stack of sheets is automatically lowered into a retard position after each sheet feed has been initiated which retard …
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- Granted June 16, 1992. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended June 16, 2009.
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