AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT ALIGNMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DOCUMENT FEED EQUIPMENT

摘要

AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT ALIGNMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DOCUMENT FEED EQUIPMENT Disclosed is document feed. apparatus including a cooperating roller assembly for separating and feeding Individual documents from a stack to utilization apparatus, the roller assembly including rotatably powered separator, restraint, and picker rollers, the picker roller being mounted to pivot out of and into engagement with the document stack. Control means responsive to each document passing through the roller assembly lifts and drops the picker roller from and into engagement with the stack, the momentum of the dropping picker roller assembly effective to switchably actuate motive means for incrementally elevating a vertically movable document support platform to continually reposition the top of the document stack in ????ment with the roller assembly.