发明名称 |
HI-SPEED PNEUMATIC SHEET FEEDER |
摘要 |
A sheet feeder for feeding sheets from a sheet stack, having a feed deck for supporting the sheet stack and a pair of spaced apart parallel guide rails on the feed deck for receiving the sheet stack between the guide rails. A sheet feeding assembly is mounted in proximity to a sheet feeding end of the feed deck and is operative to feed individual lowermost sheets from the sheet stack, the sheet feeding assembly including a continuously rotating feed drum having an inner and outer circumference and a plurality of suction openings and a vacuum assembly received in the inner circumference of the feed drum and having at least one rotating cylinder coupled to a vacuum source and movable between an actuated position for drawing air downward through the portion of the feed drum extending above the planar surface of the feed deck and a default position preventing the drawing of air through the feed drum when a vacuum is applied to the at least one rotating cylinder.
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申请公布号 |
CA2292061(A1) |
申请公布日期 |
2000.06.16 |
申请号 |
CA19992292061 |
申请日期 |
1999.12.13 |
申请人 |
PITNEY BOWES INC. |
发明人 |
WRIGHT, WILLIAM J.;JANATKA, KAREL J.;ALLEN, ROBERT J. |
分类号 |
B65H3/10;(IPC1-7):B65H3/08;B65H3/48 |
主分类号 |
B65H3/10 |
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