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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 1995
Filed:
Aug. 27, 1993
James J Strohmeyer, Hampstead, MD (US);
Robert M Swec, Baltimore, MD (US);
Earl W Tuckey, Baltimore, MD (US);
Robert S Frantz, Phoenix, MD (US);
Michael J Wild, Cockeysville, MD (US);
Jeffrey R Nice, Sykesville, MD (US);
William Z Smith, Jr, Reisterstown, MD (US);
Steven L Heishman, Millersville, MD (US);
Horace W Weeks, Towson, MD (US);
Duchossois Industries, Inc., Elmhurst, IL (US);
Abstract
A singulator of the friction belt type capable of synchronous or asynchronous modes of operation is described. The singulator includes a buffer assembly for accepting a shingled stream of documents, a feeder pinch belt for extracting the first document from the buffer and a scanner for scanning the document as it passes through the feeder into an accelerator which is also a pinch belt. The accelerator accelerates the document to a constant speed leaving the singulator. A control means is provided which operates coupled to the feeder drive and the scanner so that the next upstream document is extracted a predetermine time after the first document leaves the accelerator.