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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 1994
Filed:
Nov. 16, 1992
Michael Kenin, Rochester, NY (US);
David P Dworzanski, Walworth, NY (US);
Donald S Hensel, Rochester, NY (US);
Raymond M Quackenbush, Hilton, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
Apparatus for feeding material, in the form of discrete sheets, seriatim from a stack of discrete sheets. The sheet feeding apparatus comprises a support for a stack of discrete sheets. A sheet in the supported stack of discrete sheets is engaged by a friction mechanism for selectively removing such sheet from the stack. Such sheet is attracted to the friction mechanism by vacuum directed adjacent to the friction mechanism. The vacuum attraction increases the force of engagement of such sheet with the friction mechanism to facilitate removal of such sheet from the stack of discrete sheets by the friction mechanism.