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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 14, 1998
Roman M Golicz, Clinton, CT (US);
Stefan G. Golicz, Essex, CT (US);
Roman M Golicz, Clinton, CT (US);
Stefan G. Golicz, Essex, CT (US);
Other;
Abstract
Apparatus for feeding sheets and other flat articles, especially with varying thickness, or from stacks of varying height, includes a device called a prompter. The prompter () comprises a body (), a drive roller (), mounted on and driven by shaft (), an opposing idler roller (), and a ribbed belt () stretched around the rollers. The body pivots about shaft () at the driven roller end. The prompter may alternatively feed articles from a stack to a singulator or other device, or it may comprise the driver of a singulator. A prompter (), used as driver, combines with a retarder (), called a dancer, to form a singulator (). The dancer moves back and forth along the article flow path (), responsive to thickness of articles, or to pull force on an article by a downstream takeaway device, to thereby automatically adjust the gap at the nip () of the singulator.