CHECK STAGER-FEEDER

摘要

CHECK STAGER-FEEDER A check stager-feeder for accumulationg, in a stage, a predetermined number of checks or sheets in a stack and for high-speed feeding of the stack to further equipment comprises a kicker/stop member movable by a solenoid between two angular orientations for stopping and accumulating into a stack on a fixed slide surface sheets delivered thereto while in one orientation and, while moving to the other orientation, for kicking and thereby feeding upon the slide surface the accumulated stack further. An embodiment of the stager-feeder includes a separator sheet retriever for marked separator sheets fed thereto and interposed in the stream of received sheets, the separator sheets serving to control the number of sheets to be accumulated in a stack.