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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 1990
Filed:
May. 25, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Eduard Svyatsky, Chicago, IL (US);
Jerry W Loftis, Libertyville, IL (US);
Thomas Faber, Skokie, IL (US);
Assignee:
Bell & Howell Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
271 10 ; 271111 ; 271122 ; 271126 ; 271151 ; 271227 ; 271237 ;
Abstract
An improved document feed mechanism for feeding documents in a vertical direction through at least two stations including a device for shingling the documents in at least one station by having successive ones of the documents overlap one another to thereby compress the amount of vertical space required for the feeding operation as opposed to the space that would be required if the documents were fed top edge to bottom edge, respectively.