Bulk document feeder with removable cartridge

US8662490B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MEI, LLC · US

Inventors

• Robert Clauser · Columbus, US
• John D. Snider · West Chester, US
• Kenneth B. Wood · Windom, US
• Edward M. Zoladz, Jr. · West Chester, US
• Carl Alexander Phillips · West Chester, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 4, 2007
• Grant date: Mar 4, 2014
• Expiry date: Sep 10, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49721
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A bulk document feeder module is adapted for connection to a document acceptor and is operable, when attached to the document acceptor, to feed one document at a time, from a bundle of documents, to the document acceptor. The bulk document feeder module can include a document transport mechanism, a portion of which includes a removable cartridge, to facilitate removal of a jammed object from the feeder module. The document acceptor can form part of a bill or other document validator.