Apparatus and method for singling stacked cards

US5695314A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• GIESECKE & DEVRIENT GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Arno Hohmann · Munich, DE
• Joachim Hoppe · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 6, 1995
• Grant date: Dec 9, 1997
• Expiry date: Oct 6, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65H33/06
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus for singling cards, such as check cards, identity cards and the like, which consists of a magazine for storing the cards in a stack, a removing device and a retaining device. The cards are disposed in the magazine rotated at a defined angle from one another, resulting in protruding surfaces between two successive cards. For singling, the uppermost card is lifted off in an axis perpendicular to the card surface by means of a removing device. The card following the uppermost card is held back in the magazine by means of a retaining device, the retaining device acting on the protruding surface of the following card.