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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 1991
Filed:
Mar. 16, 1990
Eduard Svyatsky, Libertyville, IL (US);
Bell & Howell Company, Evanston, IL (US);
Abstract
A document orientation mechanism is disclosed for reversing the orientation of individual documents delivered from stacks of multiple documents while maintaining a predetermined directional document stream. A predetermined directional stream of documents is fed laterally into the mechanism from an outside source. Inside the mechanism, the documents are removed in a first direction along a first portion of a moving belt, then transferred by a guide to a second portion of the moving belt which is moving in a direction opposite to the first direction, the outer face of the documents being thereby reversed. The documents are then propelled by a third portion of the moving belt out of the laterally disposed mechanism and back into the original predetermined directional document stream.