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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2000
Heinz Froechte, Zimmern, DE;
Ludwig Bantle, Boesingen, DE;
BDT Buro-und Datentechnik GmbH & Co. KG, Rottweil, DE;
Abstract
A device for separating sheets (,) of a recording medium stored in a horizontally disposed stack includes an advance roller (,) resting on the stack and following the decreasing height of the stack. The advance roller (,) is drivable in order to acquire the topmost sheet (,) of the stack under frictional closure and to slide it for separation with its leading edge up on an obliquity (,). In order to be able to separate sheets (,) of different stiffness, the advance roller (,), while it is driven on the topmost sheet (,), drifts from the obliquity (,) until the leading edge of the sheet (,) runs up on the obliquity (,). The advance roller (,) is movable vertically. The counter force acting during the driving of the advance roller (,) is additionally supported in a rocker in order to increase the contact pressure against the topmost sheet (,) in case of the sheets of great stiffness.