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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 1992
Filed:
Oct. 15, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael A Malachowski, Webster, NY (US);
David R Kamprath, Webster, NY (US);
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
271104 ; 271 98 ; 271167 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for individually feeding sheets from a stack of sheets, comprises a tray for supporting a stack of sheets to be fed therefrom. A sheet feeder is provided for individually capturing a top sheet from the stack and for conveying the top sheet out of the tray. A solenoid-activated sheet hold down device is provided which includes a portion being cyclically movable toward and away from the stack for exerting a force on a next top sheet beneath the top sheet to prevent the next top sheet from being forwarded out of the tray while the top sheet is being forwarded.