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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 1993
Filed:
Jan. 30, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Vitaly Bandura, Danvers, MA (US);
Paul St Cyr, Middleton, MA (US);
Assignee:
Production Lines, Inc., Essex, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ; B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
271 34 ; 271 10 ; 271118 ; 271228 ;
Abstract
A document feed apparatus is provided which feeds document sheets from a stack of sheets seriatum to a position remote from the stack. Two motor driven feed belts are pivotally mounted to contact or not contact a top sheet of the stack. The belts are driven by separate motors which are activated or deactivated depending upon the top sheet position.