Patent ID: 6439564
Filing Date: 2002-08-27
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
A document dispensing apparatus, comprising:a document store having a document exit; a feed roller for feeding documents out of the document store through the document exit; a separation system including a pair of juxtaposed rollers defining a nip to which documents are fed from the document exit; a drive motor coupled to one of the rollers to cause one roller to rotate in a document feed direction, the one roller being drivingly coupled to an other roller of the pair via a one-way transmission such that a drive is communicated to the other roller only when the one roller is driven in a direction opposite to the feed direction; and a shaft secured to the other roller, the shaft being secured to a housing via a first one-way clutch which prevents rotation of the shaft in the feed direction and a pulley connected to the shaft by a second one-way clutch so that drive an be communicated to the other roller.