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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 1989
Filed:
May. 26, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Henry A Daboub, DeSoto, TX (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
271111 ; 271105 ; 271118 ; 271126 ; 271150 ; 271114 ;
Abstract
A feeder for document processing equipment having a singulator for feeding a single document upon demand. The feeder includes a movable gate which when in a closed position acts as a fixed guide for properly aligning a stack of documents in a magazine and which when in a released position moves out of contact with the documents to relieve the frictional force between documents. The gate is moved to its released position simultaneously with the start of the pick-off means of the singulator whereby the frictional force between the first and second document is substantially reduced at the instance the first document is picked off the stack.