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AssigneeMagnetec Corporation
InventorsCharles Bickoff, William J. Smith, Donald L. Suprise
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Abstract
Apparatus for conveying a sheet of paper from a power feeder to an exit point including a frame for guiding the moving sheet along a preselected path and including a flexible member between the feeder and the exit point for normally guiding the sheet along the preselected path, the flexible member allowing the sheet to buckle in a direction normal to the plane of and away from the preselected path in response to an obstruction.
Claims13
An apparatus for consecutively conveying a plurality of sheets of paper or the like from a powered feeder downstream to an exit point and for clearing an impeded sheet of paper from blocking the exit point, said apparatus comprising a frame and means on said frame for guiding each of said moving sheets along a preselected path from said feeder to said exit point, the sheet guiding means including flexible sheet means between said feeder and said exit point for normally biasing each moving sheet in a flat configuration along said preselected path, said sheet biasing means allowing a sheet to buckle in a direction normal to the plane of and away from said preselected path in response to an obstruction to said moving sheet between said exit point and said biasing means and means for clearing the buckled sheet from the sheet path.
An apparatus for conveying a moving strip of paper or the like from a powered feeder downstream to an exit point, said apparatus comprising a frame, means on said frame for guiding said moving strip along a preselected path from said feeder to said exit point, the strip guiding means including a chute on one side of said preselected strip path, and strip biasing means comprising a surface movable toward and away from said chute on the other side of said preselected strip path, said strip biasing means normally biasing said moving strip along said preselected path, while allowing said strip to buckle in a direction normal to the plane of and away from said preselected path in response to an obstruction to said moving strip between said exit point and said biasing means, and wherein said movable surface comprises a flexible sheet aligned along said strip path and secured to said frame at an end toward said feeder, the opposite end of said flexible sheet being normally biased toward said chute to hold said moving strip along said preselected path, said opposite end of said flexible sheet being free to move away from said chute in response to a force from a buckled portion of an obstructed strip.
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