Apparatus for scanning bank cheques, with an improved cheque feed device

摘要

The scanner apparatus has a feed device for picking up cheques from an input receptacle (11) and transferring them to a conveyor mechanism which conveys the cheques through the interior of the apparatus. A feed plate (15) resiliently urges a bundle of cheques in the receptacle (11) towards an opposed surface (29). A feed roller (14) acting on the side remote from the plate picks up from the receptacle (11) a cheque disposed adjacent the surface (29) and transfers it towards the interior of the apparatus. The movement of the feed plate (15) towards the opposed surface (29) is stopped (27a) in a position close to that surface so as to define between the plate (15) and the surface (29) a gap (40) of sufficient width for the insertion of at least one cheque in the input receptacle (11). <IMAGE>