Patent ID: 7874554

Claim:
An apparatus for continuously singling stacks of loose sheet material, comprising: a singling unit for singling a stack of loose sheet material; a feeding device for moving stacked loose sheet material to be singled along a feeding path from a deposit position to a position in which the uppermost sheet of the stacked loose sheet material can be grasped by the singling unit; and a stack inserting device for moving a stack of loose sheet material to be singled along an insertion direction into the deposit position, wherein the feeding device has a first feeding element being movable at least along two axes relative to the singling unit, a first axis of the axes being parallel to the feeding path and a second axis of the axes being orthogonal to both the feeding path and the insertion direction, the first feeding element being moveable along the second axis to be inserted into the feeding path, and a second feeding element being only uniaxially movable along the feeding path from a first position in which a stack of loose sheet material is insertable into the deposit position to a second position in which the uppermost sheet of the stack contacts the first feeding element.