Eastman-Kodak Company

USA as Represented by Secretary of the Navy

Bradshaw Burnham

Gary B Gustafson

Charles F Nichols

An improved apparatus for reverse buckle feeding of sheets seriatim from a sheet supply stack. The sheet feeding apparatus includes a feed roller, mounted for rotation about a longitudinal axis. The feed roller has a frictional sheet feeding peripheral surface in juxtaposition with one of the sheets of such stack. A second roller is mounted for rotation within the feed roller about a second axis which is parallel to the longitudinal axis of the feed roller. The second roller has a frictional sheet engaging peripheral surface, a portion of which extends through an opening in the peripheral surface of the feed roller radially beyond such surface. The second roller acts to urge the engaged sheet in the direction opposite to the feed direction. The feed roller and the second roller are simultaneously rotated in opposite directions about their respective axes, whereby the sheet engaging surface and the sheet feeding surface sequentially engage each sheet of the stack to first separate (buckle) and then feed the same from the stack. The apparatus may further include means to facilitate unimpeded movement of a fed sheet, relative to the sheet feeding surface, once the fed sheet is moving under the influence of a downstream transport. Such means also acts to prevent premature feeding of subsequent sheets.

Reverse buckle scuff feeder

1. In a device for exploding a vehicle in proximity to a target, a proxim control circuit comprising a source of electromagnetic energy, means connected to said source for radiating said energy into space and for intercepting electromagnetic energy therefrom, including any portion of said radiated energy reflected from a target, first circuit means connected to said source and being selectively responsive to said reflected energy for generating an initiating signal, normally ineffective electroresponsive means connected to said last named means for actuating a firing mechanism upon being rendered effective by said initiating signal, and second circuit means connected to said source and to said electroresponsive means being selectively responsive to intercepted energy other than said reflected energy for maintaining said electroresponsive means ineffective until a predetermined time after interception of said other energy.

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