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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 1997
Filed:
Nov. 01, 1995
Alistair R Hamilton, Dayton, OH (US);
Robert W Phillips, Waterloo, CA;
AT&T Global Information Solutions Company, Dayton, OH (US);
Abstract
A document handling device overturns a document having a first side, a second side lying opposite the first side, a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a relatively long lengthwise dimension between the leading and trailing edges. The device comprises a housing unit including a reference surface defining at least in part an opening through which the document is fed into a document path defined within the housing unit. A transport unit receives the document which has been fed through the opening with the first side of the document facing the reference surface of the housing unit. The transport unit overturns the received document and feeds the overturned document back through the opening with the second side of the document facing the reference surface of the housing unit. The units define an accumulating space into which the document can bulge while the document is being overturned.