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Patent No.:

US 12139361 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2024

Filed:

Nov. 24, 2020

Feeder for feeding document to document imaging system and method for feeding documents

Applicant:

Opex Corporation, Moorestown, NJ (US);

Inventors:

David Helmlinger, Mount Laurel, NJ (US);

Gary Miller, Medford, NJ (US);

Peter M. Chezik, Sicklerville, NJ (US);

Robert R. DeWitt, Marlton, NJ (US);

Assignee:

OPEX Corporation, Moorestown, NJ (US);

Attorney:

Brian Dinicola

Primary Examiner:

Thomas A Morrison

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 3/54 (2006.01); B07C 3/00 (2006.01); B65H 3/04 (2006.01); B65H 3/06 (2006.01); B65H 3/52 (2006.01); B65H 5/02 (2006.01); B65H 5/06 (2006.01); B65H 5/26 (2006.01); B65H 7/14 (2006.01); B65H 7/20 (2006.01); B65H 29/12 (2006.01); B65H 29/68 (2006.01); B65H 29/70 (2006.01); B65H 37/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 3/54 (2013.01); B07C 3/00 (2013.01); B65H 3/047 (2013.01); B65H 3/0669 (2013.01); B65H 3/0676 (2013.01); B65H 3/523 (2013.01); B65H 3/5238 (2013.01); B65H 5/023 (2013.01); B65H 5/025 (2013.01); B65H 5/066 (2013.01); B65H 5/068 (2013.01); B65H 5/26 (2013.01); B65H 7/14 (2013.01); B65H 7/20 (2013.01); B65H 29/125 (2013.01); B65H 29/68 (2013.01); B65H 29/70 (2013.01); B65H 37/00 (2013.01); B65H 2220/01 (2013.01); B65H 2301/422615 (2013.01); B65H 2301/42262 (2013.01); B65H 2301/5111 (2013.01); B65H 2301/5125 (2013.01); B65H 2408/11 (2013.01); B65H 2511/13 (2013.01); B65H 2511/20 (2013.01); B65H 2511/30 (2013.01); B65H 2511/512 (2013.01); B65H 2513/512 (2013.01); B65H 2553/30 (2013.01); B65H 2701/1916 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and apparatus for processing documents are provided. The apparatus includes a feeder for receiving a packet of a plurality of documents and separating the documents to serially feed the documents to a scanner. A drop feeder conveys the document packets to the feeder. A sensor provides information related to the thickness of the document packets and the drop feeder is controlled in response to the information related to the thickness of a packet in the feeder. The method includes the control of the drop feeder in response to information related to the thickness of a document packet at the feeder.

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