Patent ID: 6308820
Filing Date: 2001-10-30
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
An assembly for conveying stacked documents along a particular conveying path in a conveying direction, comprising:a circulating conveying device having a section extending along the conveying path and a conveyor roller which is suspended opposite said section of the circulating conveying surface for reciprocating movement between positions at different distances from said section of the circulating conveying device and in an operating condition continuously exerts a press-on force in the direction of said section of the circulating conveying device to convey a plurality of documents while in a first stack and a second stack, said first stack being spaced from said second stack in a conveying direction, anda transmission for driving the conveyor roller with a couple in the conveying sense, which couple causes the conveyor roller to rotate in operation in such a manner that a circumferential section of the conveyor roller facing said section of the circulating conveying device is moved in the conveying direction,the transmission being coupled with the conveyor roller in such a manner that if the transmission exerts a couple on the conveyor roller in said conveying sense, the transmission also exerts a force on the conveyor roller to reduce said press-on force.