US3847382A - Card handling apparatus - Google Patents

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US3847382A
US3847382A US00198722A US19872271A US3847382A US 3847382 A US3847382 A US 3847382A US 00198722 A US00198722 A US 00198722A US 19872271 A US19872271 A US 19872271A US 3847382 A US3847382 A US 3847382A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H3/00—Separating articles from piles
    • B65H3/46—Supplementary devices or measures to assist separation or prevent double feed
    • B65H3/60—Loosening articles in piles
    • B65H3/62—Loosening articles in piles by swinging, agitating, or knocking the pile
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H29/00—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles
    • B65H29/38—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by movable piling or advancing arms, frames, plates, or like members with which the articles are maintained in face contact
    • B65H29/42—Members rotated about an axis parallel to direction of article movement, e.g. helices
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H3/00—Separating articles from piles
    • B65H3/02—Separating articles from piles using friction forces between articles and separator
    • B65H3/06—Rollers or like rotary separators
    • B65H3/063—Rollers or like rotary separators separating from the bottom of pile
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K13/00—Conveying record carriers from one station to another, e.g. from stack to punching mechanism
    • G06K13/02—Conveying record carriers from one station to another, e.g. from stack to punching mechanism the record carrier having longitudinal dimension comparable with transverse dimension, e.g. punched card
    • G06K13/08—Feeding or discharging cards
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
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    • B65H2701/10—Handled articles or webs
    • B65H2701/19—Specific article or web
    • B65H2701/1912—Banknotes, bills and cheques or the like

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  • ABSTRACT 2% 8 2; 6 53 13 Apparatus for handling cards containing data to be 3 87 89 scanned at a reading station, and including a feeding 1 0 fl'j' 1 i 35 station for a stack of cards at which the stack is agitated to dispose the cards in edge contact with a surface at the feeding station in proper alignment with [56] References cued the reading station.
  • Cards are sequentially delivered to UNITED STATES PATENTS a transport roll, and held against the roll in proper 596,098 12/1897 Whitehead 271/1 18 reading alignment as the cards are transported past v0 5,64 8/l9l2 S ocki g 1/ the reading station to a receiver at which the cards are 110661027 6/1913 Mark 271/41 stacked on end in sequence.
  • conventional data card, including check, handling apparatus provides a feeding station to which the cards are supplied in stacks, the cards being fed successively from the bottom of the stack.
  • the alignment of the cards with the reading head at the reading station is accomplished by guides spaced apart to provide limited tolerancefor the opposite longitudinal edges of the cards.
  • the feeding of the cards is accomplished by spaced capstans or rollers which engage the cards as they travel to and past the reading station.
  • the cards are capable of skewing in their path of travel, that is, to move angularly within the guides about an axis" perpendicular to the path of travel.
  • the cards are unrestrained except at the points of contact with the feed rollers or capstans and are, therefore, free to flutter, that is, to partake of an undulating motion or transverse flexure.
  • the unavoidable and inherent differential peripheral speeds of the capstans or rollers caused by dimensional differences in the rollers themselves and in the drive therefor, causes longitudinal buckling of the cards.
  • the cards When the cards leave the reading station, they are successively fed to a receiver. If a preceding card is in the path of a following card, thefollowing card may contact the card in front of it and as a result be caused to be slightly retarded, causing stoppage of the conventional apparatus which generally includes sensing means for detecting slight longitudinal shifting of the card during the period that it is being read, to avoid erroneous readout. While auger type shifting defices have been employed in an effort to positively move the preceding card from the path of the following card, such auger type devices are only partially effective since the cards maybe deterred in their travel by impingement upon the crest of the helical rib of the auger, thus causing stoppage of the apparatus and. potential edge damage to the card.
  • card is intended to be generic to various documents or sheets containing data in the form of punches or optical marks, such. as the typical cards, checks, and the like, and including price tags or other documents which can be supplied to a transport mechanism from a stack and transported past a reading station having the usual data reading means capable of reading punches, pencil marks, magnetically and coded data and the like.
  • the present invention provides novel card handling apparatus for feeding data cards past a reading station, wherein the cards are initially successively aligned properly-with the readout head and are delivered to a transport mechanism, while in such alignment, and held positively in alignment as the cards are successively transported. past the reading station.
  • the transporting mechanism is such that skewing, flutter and longitudinal deformation of the cards are all prevented.
  • the transport mechanism is so constructed that bent or crumpled cards, as well as damaged cards are picked up and transported past the reading station in a flattened state so as to be accurately read and to thereby avoid machine stoppage.
  • the apparatus provides auger means for mov ing a preceding card from the path of a following card at the receiving station to avoid impingement by the following card, wherein the auger is resilient and offers no immovable obstruction to a card to cause the stoppage of machine operation and/or edge mutilation of the card.
  • the invention pro vides a feeding station having a card guiding or aligning surface disposed at an incline along an edge of the stack of cards, and the stack of cards is jostled or agitated to cause the cards tov gravitate into contact with the card aligning surface to a position parallel with the direction of card travel when the cards are successively picked up at the feeding station by the transport mechanism.
  • the transport mechanism which transports cards from the, feed station, past the reading station, to the receiving station, in accordance with the invention, employs a single feed roll against which the cards are pressed to hold the cards against lateral or longitudinal shifting relative to the feed roller.
  • Such pressing of the card against the feed roller is also present at the reading station, where immobility of the card from proper alignment or slippage of the card with respect to the feed roller would otherwise cause error or stoppage. Pressing of the card against the transport roller at the reading station will also flatten crumpled or bent cards at the critical point to enable such cards to be accurately read.
  • timing disc Since only a single feed roll is used in the transport, the usual timing disc can revolve with the roll and accurately represent card motion, whereas such a timing disc on one of the capstans of a dual capstan transport mechanism is inaccurate since it merely represents motion at a single capstan which may differ from'total card motion.
  • the jostling of the stack of cards in the feeding station to uniformly align the cards, with the reading head is accomplished by a mechanism which also operates to cause the leading edge of successive cards to be pressed against the transport roller when activated.
  • the successive cards pass the reading station and enter the receiving station or stacker for removal from the apparatus, they are removed from the path of the on-coming card by resilient screw or auger devices composed of an open spiral of spring wire.
  • the oncoming card will not contact the preceding card, nor will the leading edge of the successive cards be torn or mutilated, since the spring spiral will resiliently deflect sufficiently to avoid such damage.
  • FIG. 1 is a predominantly frontal perspective of card handling apparatus made in accordance with the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a section, as taken on the line 2-2 of FIG. 1, showing the interior apparatus
  • FIG. 3 is a section as taken on the line 3--3 of FIG.
  • FIG. 4 is a fragmentary 44 of FIG. 2;
  • FIG. 5 is an enlarged fragmentary section, as taken on the line 55 of FIG. 3, showing the card transport mechanism conditioned to pick up and start movement of a card towards the reading station;
  • FIG. 6 is a view corresponding to FIG. 5, but showing the card passing the reading station
  • FIG. 7 is an enlarged horizontal section, as taken on the line 77 of FIG. 2;
  • FIG. 8 is a view corresponding to FIG. 5, butshowing a modified construction
  • FIG. 9 is a view corresponding to FIG. 6, but showing the modified construction of FIG. 6.
  • the apparatus of the invention is incorporated in a case or housing 1 having a base 2 adapted to rest on a suitable support, such as a table or other support, and having an upper section 3 in which is a feeding station F to which a stack of data cards, such as punched catds, checks or the like are to be supplied, the housing also having a lower section 4 in which is a card receiver or stacking station S, to which cards are transported by transport means T past a reading station R.
  • the details of the housing 1 require no specific illustration, but it will be understood that it is so constructed as to enable access to the interior working mechanisms described below.
  • the housing has an inner wall 5 which extends upwardly from the base in the stacking station S and a wall portion 6 forming the back of the feed station F,
  • this angle A may be on the order of 25 from vertical and, if desired, the wall 6 may be substantially horizontal.
  • the feed station F includes means 8 for agitating or jostling a stack of cards C which are placed in the feed station in generally horizontal relation.
  • the jostling means 8 includes a plate 9 which is generally horizontally deposed between the inner wall 6 and an outer wall 10, the plate being mounted on pivot means 11 remote from the transport station T.
  • the plate 9 has an upwardly inclined end section 12 so that a stack of cards C inherently tends to slide toward the transport station T in stepped or feathered relation in a direction longitudinally of the plate 9, the lower most card being positioned with a leading edge closer to the transport means T than the cards thereabove.
  • the stack of cards also inherently tends to shift laterally into longitudinal edge contact with the inner wall 6, as seen in FIG.
  • the plate 9 is laterally inclined rela tive to a horizontal plane.
  • the axis of the pivot means 11 is normal to the wall 6, and therefore, if the wall 6 is at an angle of 25 relative to the vertical plane 7, the plate 9 will be at an angle of 25 relative to a horizontal plane.
  • the wall 10 has a bevelled surface 13 tending to cause cards to move toward, the wall 6 when a stack of cards C has a height greater than the front wall 10 and any of the cards laterally project from the pack towards the wall 10, a distance greater than the small clearance between the cards and the walls 6 and 10.
  • means may be employed to urge the stack of cards against the plate 9. Indeed, even when the guide wall 6 is at an angle as illustrated, means may be needed to apply downward pressure on the stack, particularly when there are few cards in the stack.
  • the agitating or jostling means 8 comprises a solenoid 14, the armature 15 of which is suitably connected beneath the plate 9.
  • a coiled spring 16 disposed about the armature 15 normally biases the plate 9 to pivot upwardly about the pivot means 11, limited by suitable stop means 16a on the lower end of the armature 15, in the illustrated form of a stop nut.
  • Downward movement of the plate 9 is limited by the solenoid stroke or by a stop pin 17 suitably connected by nuts at 18 to a solenoid support bracket 19, a resilient bumper 20 being provided on the pin 17 to engage the plate 9.
  • the solenoid 14 is energized to cause downward movement of the plate 9 against the stop 17 and then de-energized so that the spring 16 returns the plate 9 to the upper position.
  • Such oscillation of the plate 9 beneath the stack of cards C sufficiently agitates or jostles the cards, that they are effectively causedto slide laterally down the laterally inclined plate 9 into longitudinal edge contact with the wall 6 at the feeder station.
  • each card, as the stacked cards are successively moved from beneath the stack by the transport means is in the same longitudinally aligned relationship to the transport means T and the reading station R.
  • the transport means T comprises a friction roll rotatably carried by a shaft 26 for rotation on an axis transverse of the feed station and on the same plane as the plate 9.
  • the roll 25 is continuously rotated by a drive motor 25a carried by a motor support 25b.
  • a drive pulley 250 on the motor drives a belt 25d which drives a pulley 25a on the roll 25.
  • the friction roll 25 has a resilient cover provided with laterally spaced peripheral grooves 29 and 30 and lands 31, 32 and 33, and means under the control of the oscillation of the plate 9 are provided for causing frictional engagement between the leading edge of the lowermost card and the lands 31-33 on the roll upon each downward movement of the plate 9, so that the lowermost card is picked up at the feeding station and transported past the reading station R to the stacking station 5.
  • the end of the plate 9 adjacent to the roll 25 has a pair of laterally spaced extension fingers 34 and extending into the roll groves 26 and 30 substantially tangentially to the lands 31-33, the cards being supported on the upper surfaces of these fingers when the plate 9 is in the upper position (FIG. 5) and the lower card-contacting the friction roll 25 when the plate 9 is moved downwardly (FIG. 6) so that the fingers 34 and 35 are moved radially inwardly in the grooves 29 and 30.
  • the pressure applying means comprises spring means including a pair of laterally spaced leaf spring arms 36 and 37 affixed by fasteners 33 to an end wall 39 at the feed station F and projecting downwardly in the planes of the roll grooves 29 and3tl and towards the reading station R.
  • springs 36 and 37 are engageable with the leading edge of the lowermost card when the plate 9 moves downwardly to press the leading edge against the roll 25, but when the plate is in its upper position, the plate fingers 34 and 35 engage beneath the springs 36 and 37 (FIG. 5) to hold the springs out of pressure contact with the lowermost card.
  • the springs 36 and 37 extend circumferentially of the roll 25 sufficiently towards the reading station R, that as the lowermost card is carried by the roll 25 towards and past the reading station, the card is held in the same precise alignment, with respectto the roll 25 and the reading station R,
  • a gauge bar 40 is mounted by fasteners 400 on the end wall 39, the gaugebar 40 having depending stop fingers 41 spaced from the periphery of the lands 31-33 sufficiently to enable passage of a single card past the fingers 41, but the superjacent card will engage the fingers 41 and be held against movement until thetrailing edge of the lowermost card clears the leading edge of the superjacent card and solenoid 14 is again actuated.
  • a support arm 45 clamped or otherwise mounted on the roll support shaft 26 by set screws 46.
  • a reading head supporting bracket 47 which carried a conventional reading head 48 by which the successive card fed through the feed station are scanned.
  • the details of the reading head are not germane to the present invention, but in any event the 1 reader head detacts and supplies signals to a data storing or printing apparatus representing the data recorded on the card.
  • the bracket 47 Adjacent to the roll 25, the bracket 47 has a portion 19 opposed to the periphery of the roll 25 and having a face 50 against which the leaf springs 36, 37 abut at their free ends, so that the springs 36, 37 exert substantial pressure on a card pressing the card positively into frictional engagement with the roll 25 as the mid-section of the springs 37 are flexed outwardly from the grooves 29 and 30 of the roll 25 by a card approaching the reading station R, as seen in FIG. 6.
  • the cards As the cards successively pass through the reading station R, they move downwardly to the stacking station S through a throat 60 defined between an outer guide 61 and an inner guide 62 having stripper fingers 63 which extend into grooves 29 and 30 in the feed roll 25 to prevent the cards from clinging to the roll and deflect the leading edges of the cards into the throat 60.
  • the guide 61 is at the upper end. of a plate 64 which, at its lower portion 65, is inclined inwardly to decelerate and deflect the lower end of the cards as they move which was established by edge contact of the card with the wall 6 at the feed station.
  • the springs 36 and 37 press the card smoothly against the lands 31-33 and no fluttering of the card is possible. Since only one roll is in engagement with the card, moreover, no undesired longitudinal deformation of the card can occur. As a consequence, the transport mechanism can efficiently carry cards past the reading station R which have been mutilated or crumpled, so that such cards can be effectively read, without jamming or being torn in the transport mechanism and without causing machine stoppage.
  • a timing disc 25f is carried by the roll 25.
  • Such discs are transparent, but have circumferentially spaced opaque markings revolvable relative to fixed opaque markings and a light source (not shown) to time the reader with downwardly to form a stack of cards standing on edge, as seen in FIG. 2.
  • a retainer 66 pivotally carried on the free end of an arm 67 pivotally supported at 68 retains the edge stacked cards against sliding to horizontal positions so that the cards are stacked edgewise in the same order at the stacking station S as the cards are transported from the feed station F.
  • Means are provided at the stacking station for moving the successive cards from the path of an on-coming card, as best seen in FIGS. 2, 3 and 7, so that an oncoming card cannot impinge upon a preceding card and cause mutilation of either card.
  • the preceding card will engage the bottom 69 of the stacker station while an on-coming card is still being positively driven by the transport roll 25. While the drive friction between the card and the roll 25 is sufficient to prevent slippage, so that slippage is no problem, in accordance with the invention, it is necessary to prevent impingement of the card being transported against anything which can cause card damage.
  • the means for moving the successive cards from the path of an on-coming card comprises resilient rotary screw means 70. i
  • drive means here shown, as a pair of electric motors 73, 73, the shafts 74 of which extend through openings in the support wall 71, and are laterally spaced a distance greater than the width of a card C which passes from the throat 60 between the shafts 74.
  • Suitably mounted on the shafts 74 for rotation therewith are helically wound, resilient screws or auger devices 75, having a lead longitudinally of the shafts 74.
  • the spring screws are of opposite hand and are, therefore, rotated oppositely, as indicatedby the arrows in FIG. 7.
  • the spring screws project laterally towards one another so that a card C moving downwardly between the shafts 74 will be engaged at its opposite longitudinal edges and moved progressively to the left in FIG. '7, as indicated by the arrow, so that the trailing edge of each card is moved from the path of the leading edge of the on-coming card. Since, the screws 75 are resilient, if the leading edge of a card initially engages the outer crest of any helix, the spring will be deformed without offering substantial resistance to further longitudinal feeding of the card by the transport roll 25, and therefore, notwithstanding the fact that the card is being positively moved into engagement with the spring screws 75, no damage I can occur to the card.
  • a second set of springs 137a have ends connected to the stop block 40 by the fasteners 40a and free ends which contact the face 50 of the reader support 47, so that the bowed, intermediate portions of the springs 137a will exert the pressure on the cards required to transport the cards past the reader 48.
  • the main transport friction provided by the springs 137a can be established independently of the pressure of springs 137 required to initiate the transport.
  • a third leaf spring or springs 160 mounted beneath the reader 48 and having a down-turned free end projecting towards the stripper fingers engage the card to constrain it to movement through the throat 60 and to maintain frictional engagement of the card with the roll 25 during the termiratus which is simple in its construction, yet efficient in v operation, the single feed roll and pressure applying means resulting in uniform feeding of cards to the reading station throughout the entire range of card feed rates, in uniform alignment as established at the feed station, and notwithstanding that a card may be bent or crumpled, the cards being effectively end stacked at the stacking station without damage or shut-down of the apparatus.
  • a card feeding station adapted to receive a stack of cards
  • a reading station having means for reading the cards
  • a receiver for cards which have been read
  • transport means for moving cards successively from said feeding station past said reading station to said receiver
  • drive means for said transport means
  • said feeding station having card aligning means engageable by the side edges ofthe cards in said stack for aligning the cards with said means for reading the cards, and jostling means for agitating the cards
  • said jostling means including a plate engageable with the stack of cards, said plate extending on a plane normal to said card aligning means, means mounting said plate for card agitating movements, and actuator means for moving said plate towards and away from said stack of cards indepen-- dently of said drive means, means providing an inclined surface remote from said transport means to feather the stack of cards with the leading edge of the card adjacent to said plate nearest said transport means, and means operable in response to each movement of said plate away from said stack of cards to effect engagement of said leading edge of successive cards by said transport means and transport of
  • said transport means including means for maintaining the alignment of the successive cards with said means for reading the cards as said cards are transported past said reading station.
  • transport means comprising a feed roll revolvable on an axis transverse to the direction of movement of said cards, said means operable to effect transport of said card adjacent to said plate including pressure applying means e'ngageable with the leading edge of successive cards to press the same into frictional engagement with said roll upon movement of said plate away from said stack of cards.
  • said transport means comprising a feed roll revolvable on an axis transverse to the direction of movement of said cards, said means operable toeffect'transport of said card adjacent to said plate including pressure applying means engageable with the leading edge of successive cards to press the same into frictional engagement with said roll upon movement of said plate away from said stack of cards and throughout movement of said cards from said feed station past said reading station to said receiver for maintaining the alignment of the successive cards with said means for reading the cards assaid cards are transported past said reading station.
  • said transport means comprising a feed roll revolvable on the axis transverse to the direction of movement of said cards, said means operable to effect transport of said card adjacent to said plate including pressure applying means engageable with the leading edge of successive cards to press the same into frictional en gagement with said roll upon movement of said plate away from said stack of cards and including additional pressure applying means engageable with successive cards to press the cards into frictional engagement with said feed roll throughout movement of said card from said feed station past said reading station for maintaining the alignment of the successive cards with said means for reading the cards as said cards are trans ported past said reading station.
  • said transport means comprising a feed roll revolvable on an axis transverse to the direction of movement of said cards, said means operable to effect transport of said card adjacent to said plate including spring means engageable with the leading edge of successive cards to press the same into frictional engagement with said roll throughout movement of said cards from said feed station past said reading station to said receiver '7.
  • said card aligning means including at least one vertically extended guide surface engageable by the side edges of said cards, said transport means including a feed roll revolvably mounted adjacent to said plate, and said means responsive to movement of said plate acting on the leading edge of the lowermost card on said support.
  • said card aligning means including at least one vertically extended guide surface engageable by the side edges of said cards
  • said transport means including a feed roll revolvably mounted adjacent to said plate
  • said means operable in response to each movement of said plate comprising pressure applying means movable between a position relieving the leading edge of the lowermost card from engagement with said feed roll and a position pressing said leading edge into engagement with said feed roll
  • said actuator means for said jostling means having means for moving said pressure applying means to the first-mentioned position and-allowing movement of said pressure applying means to the second-mentioned position
  • said pressure applying means also including means for maintaining pressure against the cards to hold the cards against said feed roll in alignment with said means for reading the cards as the cards pass said reading station.
  • said card aligning means including at least one vertically extended guide surface engageable by the side edges of said cards
  • said transport means including a feed roll revolvably mounted adjacent to said plate
  • said means operable in response to each movement of said plate comprising pressure applying means movable between a position relieving the leading edge of the lowermost card from engagement with said feed roll and a position pressing said leading edge into engagement with said feed roll
  • said actuator means for said jostling means having means for moving said pressure applying means to the first-mentioned position and allowing movement of said pressure applying means to the second-mentioned position
  • said pressure applying means comprising means cooperable with said feed roll to press the cards against said feed roll substantially entirely across the cards.
  • said transportmeans comprising a feed roll revolvable on an axis transverse to the direction of movement of said cards, said means operableto effect transport of said card adjacent to said plate including pressure applying means engageable with the leading edge of successive cards to press the same into frictional enill gagement with said roll upon movement of said plate away from said stack of cards
  • said receiver comprising a stacking station including means for receiving the leading edge of successive cards from said transport means while said cards are engaged between said feed roll and said pressure applying means and moving the trailing edge of a preceding card from the path of the leading edge of an oncoming card.
  • said transport means comprising a single feed roll and adjacent pressure applying means for pressing successive cards against said feed roll, said means operable in response to each movement of said plate comprising a projection on said plate extending towards said feed roll, said feed roll having a reduced diameter portion receiving said projection, said projection being engageable with the leading edge of successive cards to move the latter and said pressure applying means away from said feed roll upon movement of said plate in one direction and said projection allowing the leading edge of the lowermost card to engage said feed roll upon movement of said plate in the other direction.
  • a card feeding station adapted to receive a stack of cards
  • a reading station having means for reading the cards
  • a receiver for cards which have been read
  • transport means for engaging and moving cards successively from said feeding station past said reading station to said receiver
  • said receiver comprising a stacking station including revolvable screw means for receiving successive cards from said transport means while engaged thereby and moving the preceding card from the pathof an on-coming card to prevent damage of said cards
  • said revolvable screw means comprising a pair of rotary shafts spaced apart to permit passage of cards therebetween, and resilient spring screws carried by said shafts, said resilient spring screws being yieldable upon engagement of said cards therewith.
  • saidresilient spring screws having opposite leads, and means for rotating said shafts in opposite directions.
  • M. In data card handling apparatus having card feed ing means, card reading means, transport means for engaging and positively driving successive cards from said feeding means past said reading means, and a card stacker for receiving cards edge'wise from said transport means, said stacker means including walls defining an inlet for cards, a base wall below said inlet, and rotary screw means engageable by said cards as they successively move while engaged by said transport means from said inlet to said base wall for shifting preceding cards from the path of on-coming cards, said screw means including a resilient, spring wire wound in a loose helix, said spring wires being yieldable upon edge engagement by a card to prevent damage of said card.
  • a card feeding station adapted to receive a stack of cards, a reading station having means for reading the cards, a receiver for cards which have been read, transport means for moving cards successively from said feeding station past said reading station to said receiver in a path determined at said feeding Station, and drive means for said transport means
  • said feeding station having a card aligning surface engageable by the cards in said stack means for aligning the cards with said means for reading the cards, jostling means for agitating the card in said aligning means, and means for introducing successive cards to said transport means for movement in said path past said reading station
  • said aligning means including a guide surface disposed at an angle to the vertical
  • said jostling means including a member movably mounted adjacent to said guide surface for movement towards and away from said cards, and actuator means for moving said member independently of said drive means to agitatesaid cards into edge engagement with said guide surface, means providing an angular wall portion remote from said transport means to engage the cards and feather the stack of cards with the card nearest said transport means having a leading
  • a card feeding station adapted to receive a stack of cards
  • a reading station having means for reading the cards
  • a receiver for cards which have been read
  • transport means for moving cards successively from said feeding station past said reading station to said receiver
  • said transport means including a friction feed roll and pressure applying means engageable with successive cards to press the cards into engagement with said friction feed roll
  • drive means for continuously rotating said feed roll
  • said feeding station having at least one card guide surface extending vertically and engageable by the side edges of the cards in said stack for aligning the cards with said means for reading the cards
  • jostling means for vertically agitating the cards
  • said jostling means including a plate for supporting the stack of cards, said plate extending on a plane normal to the guide'surface, means mounting said plate for vertical card agitating movement beneath said cards, means for moving said plate independently of said drive means, means for providing an inclined surface remote from said transport means to feather the stack of cards with the lowermost card having a leading edge nearest said transport means, and means operable in response to each movement of
  • said means operable in response to each movement of said plate comprising a projection on said plate extending towards said feed roll, said feed roll having a reduced diameter portion receiving said projection, said projection being engageable with the leading edge of successive cards to move the latter and said pressure applying means away from said feed roll upon movement of said plate in one direction and said projection allowing the leading edge of the lowermost card to engage said feed roll upon movement of said plate in the other direction.

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BE791354D BE791354A (fr) 1971-11-15 Appareil de manipulation de cartes
US00198722A US3847382A (en) 1971-11-15 1971-11-15 Card handling apparatus
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AU48730/72A AU467174B2 (en) 1971-11-15 1972-11-10 Card handling apparatus
DE2255595A DE2255595A1 (de) 1971-11-15 1972-11-13 Leitanlage fuer datenkarten
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IT31654/72A IT986866B (it) 1971-11-15 1972-11-14 Apparato per la manipolazione di schede
BR008025/72A BR7208025D0 (pt) 1971-11-15 1972-11-14 Aperfeicoamentos em aparelho manipulador de cartoes de dados
FR7240349A FR2160447A1 (it) 1971-11-15 1972-11-14
ES408577A ES408577A1 (es) 1971-11-15 1972-11-14 Un aparato para manipulacion de una pila de tarjetas de datos.
IT31655/72A IT985517B (it) 1971-11-15 1972-11-14 Apparato per la manipolazione di schede
IT31653/72A IT986865B (it) 1971-11-15 1972-11-14 Apparato per la manipolazione di schede
ES408576A ES408576A1 (es) 1971-11-15 1972-11-14 Un aparato de tratamiento de tarjetas.
AR245142A AR200004A1 (es) 1971-11-15 1972-11-15 Aparato manipulador de tarjetas
ZA728095A ZA728095B (en) 1971-11-15 1972-11-15 Card handling apparatus
JP47113956A JPS4873025A (it) 1971-11-15 1972-11-15
GB5285072A GB1410952A (en) 1971-11-15 1972-11-15 Data card handling apparatus
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