Patent ID: 8353510

Claim:
A media feed apparatus for singulating stacked media, the apparatus comprising: a load zone for receiving the stacked media that includes a plurality of individual media pieces; a feed zone for singulating an individual media piece from the stacked media and moving the singulated media through the feed zone; and at least one nudger wheel located in the load zone for directly engaging a lowermost media deposited in the load zone; wherein the nudger wheel defines a media-influencing transport vector as being non-parallel from a travel vector of the media along the feed apparatus; wherein the media-influencing transport vector motivates an edge of the lowermost individual media piece against an alignment wall parallel with the travel vector of the media along the feed apparatus; and wherein the nudger wheel includes an offset portion extending radially beyond an outer circumference of the nudger wheel to motivate the stacked media in a substantially vertical direction at a desired frequency.