Patents Represented by Attorney Albert S. Scribner
  • Patent number: 4544150
    Abstract: An improvement in a document feeding device having a hopper oriented at an acute angle with respect to a horizontal plane and able to support a pack of documents to be fed seriatim therefrom. The improvement comprises at least one pad having a high coefficient of friction material situated on the upper surface of the hopper whereby the effect of the weight of the documents situated in the hopper above the pad on the pressure of the pack situated below the pad is decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1985
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Irvine, Harry E. Luperti, Keith Bayliss