Patent ID: 6929259
Filing Date: 2005-08-16
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. A sheet segregating assembly for separating one sheet from a stack of sheets, comprising: a first exit guide; a second exit guide positioned above the first exit guide to provide an opening there between for passage of a sheet; a pre-exit guide obliquely movable away from the stack of sheets and a plane containing a surface, the pre-exit guide is positioned before the second exit guide relative to the location for the stack of sheets, the pre-exit guide is above and biased towards a plane containing a surface of the first exit guide, to provide an opening; and a stopper member positioned adjacent the pre-exit guide to limit the horizontal movement of upper sheets, wherein horizontal movement of a plurality of sheets causes the upper sheets to contact and move the pre-exit guide away from the plane of the first exit guide and to spread the position of the upper sheets into a progressive horizontal segregation to enable a release of the lowermost sheet without a simultaneous release of an upper sheet and the pre-exit guide is journaled in elongated holes for non-rotational movement.