Patent ID: 6557849
Filing Date: 2003-05-06
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
Sheet handling apparatus including a transport system for transporting sheets; a sensing system for monitoring the passage of sheets; and a controller system for determining, during a transaction involving the transport of one or a sequence of sheets, the existence of a jam condition from the sensing system, and, if a jam condition exists,a) operating the transport system to attempt to release the jammed sheet, b) determining if a jam condition still exists, and ci) if it does, stopping the transaction and, cii) if it does not, attempting to continue the transaction and wherein if the controller system determines that during a transaction a predetermined number of attempts to release the jammed sheet have been made, the controller system stops the transaction, and the controller system is adapted to operate at least part of the transport system in a reverse direction, and a to and fro motion while attempting to release a jammed sheet.