Patent ID: 6641346
Filing Date: 2003-11-04
Classification: B26D,B65H

Abstract:
A media feeder for use with a media punching machine, the feeder comprising:a media pile stocking surface having a front edge and a rear edge and adapted to receive a pile of media sheets, each of the sheets having a plane and the plane of the sheets being perpendicular to the media pile stocking surface and facing forward; a mechanism for moving the pile forward toward the front edge; a picking mechanism comprising: a movable stop at or near the front edge, the movable stop being moveable upward to contact and stop the forward-moving pile and the movable stop being moveable downward away from the front edge to allow paper sheets to move forward past the front edge; a movable stabbing member at or near the front edge, the stabbing member moveable upward to push in-between the sheets of media at a desired distance rearward into the media pile; wherein, the stabbing member moves upward and pushes between the sheets of media substantially simultaneously with the movable stop moving downward so that a picked number of sheets drop down into a hole punch below the media feeder.