Angled spinning card picker
AssigneeAssa Abloy AB
InventorsPatrick Mork, Jason Gorton
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Abstract
Systems, devices, methods, and machine-readable media configured to dispense cards for card printing are provided. A card feeder can include a base including a first major top surface, an angled card picker situated in the base and including a protrusion extending therefrom, the angled card picker including a second major top surface, the second major top surface forming an angle between one and thirty degrees relative to the first major top surface, and a gate configured to allow a bottom most card of a stack of cards to pass therethrough when pushed by the protrusion.
Claims20
A card feeder comprising:a base including a first major top surface;an angled card picker situated in the base and including (Ia protrusion extending away from the base, (ii) a second major top surface, the second major top surface forming an angle between one and thirty degrees relative to the first major top surface, and (iii) a ramp extending away from the second major top surface;
- anda gate configured to allow a bottom-most card of a stack of cards to pass therethrough when pushed by the protrusion.
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A method of using a card feeder comprising:activating, by a motor, rotational movement of an angled card picker;raising, by a ramp on the angled card picker, a stack of cards away from a base of the card feeder as the angled card picker rotates, the ramp extending away from a major top surface of the angled card picker, the major top surface forming an angle between one and thirty degrees relative to the base;
- andpushing, by a protrusion on the angled card picker and extending away from the base, a bottom card of the stack of cards towards a gate of the card feeder.
A method of making a card feeder comprising:obtaining an angled card picker assembly and a base;situating the angled card picker assembly in a hole in a base of a card feeder such that a top major surface of an angled disk of the angled card picker assembly forms an angle between one and thirty degrees with a top major surface of the base, the angled card picker assembly including a ramp extending away from the top major surface;
- andmechanically coupling the angled card picker assembly to a motor.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.