Arrangement for the automatic and continuous adaptation of the document acceptance rate to the document output rate of document output devices

US6102392A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BDT Buro-und Datentechnik GmbH & CO KG · DE

Inventors

• Markus Gleichauf · Blumberg, DE
• Siegfried Moeller · Rottweil, DE
• Speck Elmar · Oettingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 4, 1998
• Grant date: Aug 15, 2000
• Expiry date: Aug 4, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65H5/34
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An arrangement for the control of movement of documents to an output device such as a printer or a copier in such a manner that the document draw-in rate automatically matches the document output rate. A document intake channel forces the incoming document into a curvature transversely to the direction of the transport of the documents, whereby the degree of curvature of the documents is a function of any tensile force on the documents. A sensor includes an analog and continuous output signal to affect a continuous change of the driving frequency for a motor causing the movement of the documents as a function of the actuation of the sensor.