Inventors:
Douglas B. Walter - Nazareth PA
Ricardo O. Quincoses - Reading PA
Assignee:
Bell & Howell Phillipsburg Company - Allentown PA
International Classification:
B07C 536
B65H 3130
B65H 4308
Abstract:
A check stager-feeder for accumulating, in a stage, a predetermined number of checks or sheets in a stack and for high-speed feeding of the stack to further equipment comprising a kicker/stop member movable by a solenoid between two angular orientations for stopping and accumulating into a stack on a fixed slide surface sheets delivered thereto while in one orientation and, while moving to the other orientation, for kicking and thereby feeding upon the slide surface the accumulated stack further. An embodiment of the stager-feeder includes a separator-sheet retriever for marked separator sheets fed thereto and interposed in the stream of received sheets, the separator sheets serving to control the number of sheets to be accumulated in a stack.