Patent ID: 6189881
Filing Date: 2001-02-20
Classification: B65H,G07D

Abstract:
Sheet dispensing apparatus comprising at least one pair of sheet stores; and a transport system for transporting sheets from the stores to a dispense position, the transport system including, for each pair of sheet stores, a common feed member which, upon relative movement between the common feed member and the stores in a first direction, can be moved between a pair of feed positions in each of which it engages a sheet in a respective one of the pair of stores so as to enable sheet(s) to be withdrawn from the corresponding store, characterized in that the apparatus further comprises an adjustment system for causing relative bodily movement between the stores and the common feed member in a second direction substantially transverse to said first direction so that the stores and the common feed member can be arranged relative to each other in a first position to enable the common feed member to be moved into engagement with sheets in either store, and in a second position in which the common feed member cannot be moved into engagement with sheets in either store.