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    • 42. 发明授权
    • Document feeding mechanism
    • US3761079A
    • 1973-09-25
    • US3761079D
    • 1971-03-05
    • AUTOMATA CORP
    • AZURE L
    • G06K13/10G06K13/103B65H3/06
    • G06K13/10G06K13/103
    • A feeding mechanism receives a stack of documents, such as databearing cards, in a hopper, the hopper defining a feed throat through which the cards are fed individually and in succession. A feed roller is positioned for engaging the lowermost one of the stacks of cards, generally centrally of the planar surface thereof, the cards tending to bow about the feed roller and toward the support surface. The initial feeding effect of the feed roller in each cycle is to buckle or spring the card engaged thereby away from the stack and toward the support surface, thereby breaking frictional contact between that card and the adjacent card of the stack, greatly facilitating the feed operation. Drive rollers receive each card as it is fed through the throat from the hopper and transport the card from the hopper. In one embodiment, the feed roller is driven through a lost motion clutch from a drive shaft, in turn driven at a constant rotational speed. By virtue of the lost motion clutch, and the relative surface tangential velocities of the drive rollers and the feed rollers, the cards of the stack are fed individually and in succession, with uniform spacing between the trailing and leading edges of successive cards regardless of the lengths of the cards. Means are provided in the support surface of the hopper for separating the stack from the feed roller, thereby to interrupt the feed cycle. In a second embodiment of the invention, the feed roller is driven at a constant speed without the use of a lost motion clutch, and control means are provided for automatically effecting the separation of the stacks of cards from the feed roller. The automatic control means includes suitable detection means for enabling the feed means to feed successive cards of the stack, and thus provide the individual and successive feeding of the cards with the uniform spacing therebetween as aforenoted. In a typical application, the drive rollers drive the card through a sensing station, such as for optical sensing of indicia presented on the cards, and provide a stabilizing control on the card in the region of the sensing station for improving the accuracy of the sensing operation.