Abstract: A device for accommodating cash enclosing envelopes comprising an envelope container having an inlet at an upper side portion thereof, an envelope receiving member disposed substantially horizontally within the container and guidable upward and downward, a sensor for detecting the quantity of cash enclosing envelopes placed on the receiving member, and a drive assembly for moving the receiving member upward or downward in response to a detection signal from the sensor to position the uppermost of the cash enclosing envelopes on the receiving member at a substantially definite level at all times.

Abstract: An apparatus having a pushing tray in a note storage compartment. The pushing tray moves downwardly to provide enough space to store notes smoothly. During a delivery operation, a gate lever compresses the stored notes to a predetermined pressure against the pushing tray, allowing the stored notes, even crumpled, to be delivered smoothly one after another.

Abstract: An electrographic printer/copier includes a paper path which is easily accessed from the top of the machine and permits copies to be collated automatically. The machine includes a paper tray which adjusts to organize successive pages into related reports.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for deflecting and stacking letters and the like.Such an apparatus comprises a support plate which, with the horizontal, forms an angle of 23.degree. and has at least one belt driven by motor means, at least one second belt driven by friction by the first belt and which in turn drives at least one further belt. A deflecting means placed in a deflection position by a control means deflects the letters towards a stacker, constituted by a pallet sliding under the action of the stack of letters during formation along a shaft.

Abstract: A sheet imaging apparatus with a collector tray for receiving a relatively thick stack of finished sheets. The collecting tray has a stack supporting back plate that is rockably arranged and springloaded, and the upper end of which is upwardly angled with respect to the lower end, whereby sheets in inverted relation may be collected without difficulties.

Abstract: An envelope stacking machine has a conveyor for feeding envelopes in a substantially vertical orientation along a predetermined path of travel. There is an elongate envelope stacking support for receiving envelopes directed to the support from a transfer device which pushes the envelopes against an envelope abutment member having a force converting apparatus attached thereto for maintaining a substantially uniform resisting force against the incoming stream of envelopes. The force converting apparatus contains resilient and flexible devices which operate in conjunction with a rotary displacement device to achieve the substantially uniform resisting force.

Abstract: A book stacker for thick or thin books in which an input conveyor for feeding the books in a stream to a transfer conveyor is adjustable for the thick-thin situation, and the transfer conveyor likewise; in which a partial stack of books is dropped to a collecting conveyor which gathers a full stack, the collecting conveyor being suspended resiliently; and in which the stack being gathered is stabilized.

Abstract: Apparatus for separating, counting and stacking sheets, including a feed roller and cooperating stripper shoe for permitting the passage of only single sheets fed therebetween, said sheets being moved along a curved path defined by a guide plate cooperating with the feed roll as the sheet emerges from the region between the stripper shoe and feed roll. The leading edge of the sheet moving along said curved path enters into a nip between an acceleration roller and an acceleration idler mounted on a common axis with the feed roll to abruptly accelerate the sheet and drive it into a stacker wheel which delivers the sheet to an outfeed stacker. The feed roll is provided with a plurality of surfaces of differing coefficients of sliding friction to facilitate separation of sheets.

Abstract: A sheet sorting machine of the movable bin type has a frame structure which supports a plurality of bins at one end of the bins, adjacent to a sheet entry location, the other ends of the bins being free and spaced for removal of sorted sets of sheets. The bins have pairs of trunnions at opposite sides engageable with one another and by pairs of bins shifting spiral cams to raise and lower the bins in parallelism. The trunnions for the bins and the spiral cams are mounted in spring loaded housing with springs which bias the trunnions into the spiral cams, and a trunnion is always in the cam track of the spiral cams.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for stacking sheets of various intermixed lengths in a stacking location employ distinct first and second sheet drive rollers at a sheet feed path adjacent said stacking location. The first sheet drive rollers are rotated in a first sense of rotation for driving each sheet along the sheet feed path in a first direction. The second sheet drive rollers are for each of the sheets maintained out of the sheet feed path while the particular sheet is driven with the first sheet drive roller means in the first direction past a stacking position at the stacking location. The second sheet drive rollers are rotated in a second sense of rotation for driving each sheet in a second direction opposed to said first direction. The second sheet drive rollers are for each sheet driven past the stacking location introduced into the sheet feed path for driving the particular sheet in said second direction into the stacking location.

Abstract: An apparatus for clamping individual pieces of textile fabric exiting a fusing machine conveyor 13, for withdrawing the fabrics until the trailing edges thereof clear a photocell sensor 42, and for stacking the fabrics with aligned leading edges on a hinged and vertically movable table 19 includes a withdrawable stacking rake 21 and a cooperable, vertically movable clamping plate 20. The rake and plate comprise a plurality of laterlly spaced, longitudinally oriented prongs 38 and rods 37, respectively, which are relatively staggered such that they may be partially interleaved during operation to clamp a piece of fabric therebetween.

Abstract: A sheet stacking apparatus in which resilient strips of plastic material are fixed at one end just below an exit slot of a feed arrangement for sheets or sets of sheets. The strips extend over a catch tray positioned below the exit slot. In use, the strips are deflected by an amount substantially proportional to the weight of sheets in the stack which they partially support, so that the top sheet in the stack is always at substantially the same height above the catch tray base. The leading edges of fed-out sheets or sets always encounter a support surface at a constant position whereby curling or rolling up of fed-out sheets or sets is prevented.

Abstract: A photographic print stacking apparatus is positioned proximate the discharge end of a conveyor system which conveys photographic prints from a photographic print cutter. The print stacking apparatus includes upper and lower print receiving elements which receive and hold the prints as they are discharged. The conveyor system delivers the prints to the stacking apparatus with sufficient force to carry the prints between the upper and lower print receiving elements until their leading edges engage a generally upstanding stop element. A print deflecting flap element is connected to the upper print receiving element and extends toward the stop element. The print deflecting flap element prevents the leading edges of the prints from passing over the upper end of the stop element.

Abstract: A device for shuffling a large number of cards, particularly playing cards in which the games played require the use of several decks that must be shuffled a number of times during continuous game play, the device comprising a housing having oppositely positioned feeding shelfs from which the cards are fed individually and alternately into a chute which is provided at its terminating end with a floating card rack. Within the housing there is provided a motor arranged to drive a plurality of timing gears, whereby a plurality of feeding rollers together with a plurality of conveyor rollers located within the card chute are driven so as to discharge the cards in a shuffled manner within the card-carriage tray.

Abstract: An apparatus for stacking glued textile fabrics has photocells 43, 44 for controlling the withdrawal movement of a stacking table 25 in dependence on the length of the fabrics. The stacking table moves in the same direction as a fabric piece until the trailing edge of the fabric no longer interrupts a light beam, whereupon the table returns to its original position to receive further pieces of fabric. The apparatus also includes clamping means 37, 38 to firmly hold the already stacked fabrics.

Abstract: A stacker for handling and counting documents such as, for example, paper sheets, paper currency and the like in which the documents are fed from an input tray through cooperative feeder and stripper assemblies which separate the documents to feed them in a one at a time fashion in a forward feed direction toward acceleration rollers which accelerate the single-fed documents to create a gap between documents moving along the feed path. A gap detector senses the presence of gaps for document counting purposes. An endorser and/or suspect examination detector for examining the authenticity of paper currency may be provided downstream of the first acceleration rollers.

Abstract: A document packing system for closely packing sorted documents into a pocket of a document sorting system having many pockets includes an auger. The auger is a hollow cylinder with multiple, discontinuous, raised helicies to initially engage documents sorted into the pocket. A stationary apparatus in the auger rotates the auger. Integral with the auger is a feature which aligns the sorted documents in the pocket while other portions of the auger secondarily engage and pack the sorted documents into the pocket. The sorted documents are supported in the pocket by a device which resiliently responds to the packing of documents into the pocket.

Abstract: A photographic print stacking device is positioned proximate the discharge end of the conveyor system which conveys photographic prints from a photographic print cutter. The print stacking device includes upper and lower print receiving elements, which are yieldably urged toward one another. The lower print receiving element is movable generally downward and away from the upper print receiving element as the prints are deposited on the lower print receiving element. The conveyor system delivers the prints to the stacking device with sufficient force to carry the prints between the upper and lower print receiving elements until their front edges engage a stop element. As a result, the rear edges of the prints are all substantially in alignment at a location proximate the discharge end of the conveyor system. The stop element preferably is releasably latched in an operative upstanding position and may be moved out of the way by the operator when removing an accumulated stack of prints.

Abstract: A sheet material conveying and stacking apparatus is provided which utilizes a pivotally connected conveyor having air jets with a further conveyor located downstream also having air jets. The pivotally connected conveyor is placed in a first position so that sheets of material will be transported to the subsequent conveyor which utilizes air jets to displace the sheets of material onto a further conveyor which transports the sheets to a weight-responsive stacker. After the sheets have filled the stacker, the pivotally connected conveyor may be pivoted to a second position which locates the air jets above the passline of the sheets being transported by the conveyor preceding the pivotal conveyor. The sheets are then displaced by the air jets onto another conveyor located below the air jets, the sheets then being stacked in another weight-responsive stacker.

Abstract: In card reading apparatus of the type for reading data processing type cards, an improved picking arrangement for picking and feeding cards from a contained stack in a predetermined manner. The picking arrangement comprises a throat through which the picked cards pass, the throat having an improved toothing design to optimize picking bad cards thereto. The apparatus incorporates an integrated system design for minimizing contact with the information bearing portions of the cards as they are picked and processed.

Abstract: A sheet stacking mechanism neatly stacks a plurality of sheets, which may be of dissimilar sizes, thicknesses and surface quality (finishes), in the original sequence in which the sheets are fed into the mechanism. An outfeed mechanism picks each sheet into the stacker and removes each sheet entering into the stacker away from the throat of the stacker to permit unimpeded entry of the next sheet to the stacker. Anti-skewing devices are employed at various locations to maintain the sheets in proper alignment during stacking. Linkage means having a mechanical advantage greater than one interconnects a biasing spring to a stacker bar to provide elongation of the spring inversely proportional to the distance moved by the bar in response to the accumulation of stacked sheets thereon to render more uniform the force exerted on the bar by the spring means to provide uniform stacking.