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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 1994
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1991
Kerry D O'Mara, Florence Township, Burlington County, NJ (US);
Christopher J Poux, Hamilton Township, Mercer County, NJ (US);
Ross M Carrell, Cinnaminson Township, Burlington County, NJ (US);
Kurt R Grice, East Brunswick Township, Middlesex County, NJ (US);
David Sarnoff Research Center, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Abstract
A flats singulation apparatus includes a input buffer section having a substantially horizontal ramp which is adapted to support thereon a stack of flats mailpieces on edge. The buffer section includes a moving belt and ram plate for moving the stack of flat pieces toward the front end of the ramp. A transfer section is at the end of the ramp and is adapted to remove the flat pieces substantially one at a time from the ramp and drop them downwardly. The transfer section includes a plurality of edge rollers extending across the end of the ramp and adapted to move the flat pieces from the stack, and a ledge plate extending downwardly from the edge rollers and having a horizontal ledge onto which the flat pieces drop. A pusher shelf is movable across the ledge to push the flat pieces off of the shelf. A separation section extends substantially horizontally across the end of the transfer section and includes means for moving the flat pieces away from the transfer section and separating flat pieces.