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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 1977
Filed:
Apr. 21, 1976
Harry L Wallace, Garden City, MI (US);
William B Templeton, Howell, MI (US);
Burroughs Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A document transport apparatus for serially transporting sheet material over a preselected transport path including an endless belt having a resilient compressible tubular base member and gripping members projecting therefrom. The gripping members are normally closed when the base member is uncompressed. The apparatus further includes pulleys at opposite ends of the transport path, the belt being entrained in the grooves of the pulleys. The grooves are dimensioned to compress the portion of the base member entrained therein, thereby opening the gripping members projecting from the compressed portion of the base member, permitting insertion or removal of a document. The belt grips the document and carries it along with it in the space between the pulleys.