Patent ID: 8919759
Filing Date: 2014-12-30
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. An input feeder device for an apparatus for processing paper documents and the like, particularly bank cheques, comprising a support structure wherein, between a feeder plate and an opposite surface, there is defined an input receptacle for the introduction of one or more documents to be processed, and a motorized aligning and conveying device, arranged by said input receptacle and adapted to engage and urge a document introduced into said receptacle towards a lateral stationary aligning surface; the feeder device being characterized in that the aligning and conveying device comprises an assembly which is rotatable about a first axis which intersects the feeder plate and which includes a pick-up member mounted rotatably in the assembly about a second axis in a plane spaced apart from said first axis, between a first, resting angular position and a second, working angular position, in the first of which positions the pick-up member is retracted, while in the second it protrudes into the assembly in the input receptacle to engage a document introduced thereinto; and electric motor control means, coupled to the assembly and to the pick-up member through transmission means adapted to cause: while the assembly is in a predetermined initial angular position, the passage of the pick-up member from the resting position to the working position, to engage a document introduced into the input receptacle, thereafter, a rotation of the assembly from the initial angular position to a final angular position, about the first axis, while the pick-up member is in its working position, to urge said document towards and against the aligning surface, thereafter, while the assembly is in the final position, a rotation of the pick-up member about the second axis, to convey the aligned document into the processing apparatus; and finally, the return of the pick-up member to the resting position, and the return of the assembly to the initial angular position.