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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 10, 1997
Robert W Phillips, Waterloo, CA;
Kenneth S Seymour, Conestogo, CA;
NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH (US);
Abstract
A stack of documents to be fed to a document feeding mechanism can be placed on a horizontal surface. A plate is movable relative to the horizontal surface and advances the stack of documents along the horizontal surface towards the document feeding mechanism as the plate moves relative to the horizontal surface. A body is movable between different positions and, when moved between different positions, provides a variable force which acts on the stack of documents as the documents are being fed to the document feeding mechanism. The position of the body depends upon the position of the plate relative to the horizontal surface. The body is coupled to the plate in a manner to allow the body to move between different positions to provide the variable force which acts on the stack of documents while the plate is advancing the stack of documents along the horizontal surface towards the document feeding mechanism.