Patent · US Expired

Method and apparatus for feeding sheet material into a printer or copier

US6499733B1 · kind B1 · utility

2Cited by

9References

22Claims

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Assignee

Oce Printing Systems GmbH · DE

Inventors

Gerhard Oberhoffner · Seiersberg, AT
Stephan Pilsl · Weingarten, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 8, 1999
Grant date	Dec 31, 2002
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 8, 2019

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB65H2513/10
WIPO fieldHandling
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a method of feeding a sheetlike material (50-54) into a printer. An externally located cover sheet (50-54) is removed from a pile of sheets and conveyed towards a section (a10-a12) of the transport path at a transport speed (V0, V1). The lower limit (v0) of the transport speed is the same as or greater than the transport speed (v0) of the sheets (50-54) in section (a1-a12). Conveyance of the sheet (52,54) is delayed until section (a10-a12) has been reached. Identical predetermined spacing (AS) thus occurs between immediately successive transported sheets (52,54).

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