摘要 |
A mechanism for feeding lightweight sheets of paper, one at a time, to a printing press in which a rotationally oscillated vacuum drum with suction holes therein grasps pieces of paper off the bottom of a stack with each oscillation. The stack is adjustably supported at a predetermined height just above the oscillating feed drum to insure that only one piece of paper at a time is selected. An air jet is used to separate the edges of the paper sheets in the stack while a separating plate next to the drum operates to block off the suction holes at the end of each oscillation and separate each piece of paper from the oscillating drum.
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