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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 1983
Filed:
Jul. 06, 1981
Applicant:
Inventors:
Eddy J Milanes, Oklahoma City, OK (US);
Russell E Highbridge, Oklahoma City, OK (US);
Robert S Morgan, Yukon, OK (US);
Assignee:
Magnetic Peripherals Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ; B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
271263 ; 271284 ; 2502 / ;
Abstract
An overlapped document detector for a document handling apparatus comprises an air knife in the primary document path to separate overlapped documents and forward them along separate ones of two secondary paths. Optical detectors focused on each secondary path, detects documents to detect an overlapped condition. A vacuum is created to maintain the documents in their respective secondary paths for detection purposes.