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Zenith Electronics Corporation

Paul E Brodzik

Arthur J Lostumo

Jose S Pioquinto

Jim T Russo

John V Schiralli

Donald J Stefanich, Jr

Werner R Lightner

The invention is a sheet feeder including a skimmer and a separator. The separator is designed for advancing the engaged sheet while separating any adjacent sheets. In one embodiment, the separator has a driven infeed roller nipped with a drag or separator roller. The separator roller also includes a recoil mechanism. The drag normally slips and permits the separator roller to be driven forward by the infeed roller, which cocks the recoil mechanism, then allows the infeed roller to advance a sheet. The separator roller recoils backward when a multifeed of two or more sheets is engaged between the advancing and separator rollers. The sheet separator can have as its sheet-engaging member a roller sleeve. The roller sleeve can be axially slidable on the rotatable element for ready installation on and removal from the rotatable element.

Semi-active clutch assembly

The invention is a sheet feeder for engaging and removing a sheet of paper or other material from a stack and feeding it along a path. The sheet feeder can include a sheet separator designed for advancing the engaged sheet while retarding any adjacent sheets. The separator has a driven advancing roller nipped with a driven retarding roller coupled to its drive by a friction clutch. The clutch normally slips and permits the retarding roller to be driven forward by the advancing roller when one or no sheets are engaged between the advancing and retarding rollers. The clutch engages and drives the retarding roller backward so long as a multifeed of two or more sheets is engaged between the advancing and retarding rollers.

Feed rollers with reversing clutch

A toroidal coil is wound around a donut-shaped ferrite core through which passes one or more conductors for detecting a high current pulse within the conductors. An interface block includes a generally circular recessed upper portion for receiving the toroidal coil/ferrite core combination and further includes a pair of aligned, spaced slots extending between the upper and lower surfaces and within the recessed upper portion of the block. Each of the conductors is in the form of a strip-like metal conductor and is disposed within and along the length of a respective slot in the interface block. The upper end of each strip-like conductor is adapted for mounting to an upper portion of the interface block and coupling to a respective first lead by means of a first mounting screw. Similarly, the lower end of each strip-like conductor is adapted for mounting to a lower portion of the interface block and coupling to a respective second lead by means of a second mounting screw. The ends of the toroidal coil are positioned within a respective groove in a lateral portion of the interface block and extend to the lower surface thereof where they are connected to respective terminal pins for coupling the toroidal pick-up coil to appropriate circuitry on a printed circuit board.

Current sensor arrangement

A sweep transformer such as used in a raster scanned video display includes first inner and second outer cylindrical bobbins, with the outer bobbin having a plurality of secondary windings disposed along the length thereof and a plurality of paired terminal pins each coupled to respective ends of each of the windings and arranged in two parallel linear arrays along the length of the bobbin. The terminal pins are adapted for insertion in a plurality of apertures arranged in a pair of spaced, parallel, linear arrays in a printed circuit (PC) board for coupling to conductors and electronic components on the PC board by soldering. The bobbin further includes a pair of snap-acting latches disposed in a spaced arrangement along the length thereof which are each adapted for insertion within a respective aperture in the PC board for securely mounting the transformer thereon. The transformer may be assembled and mounted on the PC board by automatic handling means.

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Deerfield, IL, United States of America

Paul E Brodzik