Exxon Research and Engineering Company

Ronald F Schley

G William Hartman

John L Connin

Frank M Palermiti

A facsimile apparatus with a sheet feeding capability to supply sheets of documents and/or copy paper to a rotatable scanning drum. Rollers advance these sheets on a sheet-by-sheet basis along the transport path which includes a plurality of sensors. The drum is positioned so as to receive the sheets prior to scanning and subsequently repositioned after scanning so as to permit these sheets to be removed from the drum.

Facsimile sheet feeding apparatus

A system for reliably feeding individual sheets of recording media is disclosed especially as such system is related to media suitable for electrosensitive recording such as in a facsimile or other device. According to a preferred embodiment, such system may comprise scanning means; sheet storage means; a stack of sheets in said storage means; sheet separating means adapted to successively contact the uppermost of said sheets in said stack as said uppermost sheets are removed from said stack, said separating means including a surface in frictional engagement with an uppermost sheet surface of said stack; drive means for moving said surface in a direction substantially parallel to the sheets in said stack so as to pull each of said uppermost sheets from said stack in a direction generally parallel with the uppermost sheet in said stack, said pulling force being substantially equal on each of the uppermost sheets and sufficient to overcome the frictional force between the uppermost sheets and the sheets beneath the uppermost sheets; each of said sheets in said stack carrying an antistatic electricity additive for substantially minimizing the electrostatic attractive force between said sheets so as to substantially equalize said pulling force required to separate the uppermost sheets from the sheets beneath regardless of atmospheric conditions; and means for transporting said sheets from said storage means to said scanning means.

Sheet feeding for a facsimile system with anti-static electricity

Method of and apparatus for facsimile sheet feeding

Document and copy media in a facsimile transceiver are fed along separate paths to a common loading area adjacent a scanning drum. A feed path for hand-fed sheets is located between the document and copy media storage areas to also supply sheets to the common loading area.

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Ocoee, FL, United States of America

Ronald F Schley