Patent ID: 7419155

Claim:
A friction singler for singling sheet-shaped value documents ( 5 ), comprising: a sheet magazine ( 16 ) for receiving a stack of sheets ( 5 ), a picking device with a singler element ( 1 ), the singler element having, for contacting and conveying the sheets ( 5 a ) to be singled from the sheet magazine ( 16 ), one or more friction elements ( 3 ) with at least one groove ( 2 ) extending in the transport direction of the sheets ( 5 a ) to be singled, and a retaining device ( 14 ) which forms with the singler element ( 1 ) a singler gap ( 19 ) through which sheets ( 5 a ) to be singled are conveyed from the sheet magazine ( 16 ), and which has friction areas ( 14 a ) of high coefficient of friction and sliding areas ( 14 b ) of low coefficient of friction cooperating with the at least one groove ( 2 ) of the singler element ( 1 ), characterized in that the at least one groove ( 2 ) of the singler element ( 1 ) cooperates both with a friction area ( 14 a ) and with a sliding area ( 14 b ) of the retaining device ( 14 ).