Herman G Malamood

US Patent:

43963366, Aug 2, 1983

Filed:

Jan 26, 1981

Appl. No.:

6/228179

Inventors:

Herman Malamood - New York NY

International Classification:

B65G 5906

US Classification:

414115

Abstract:

A sheet magazine supports a stack of limp flexible sheets. The magazine has a bottom with a slot formed therethrough and spaced opposite first and second ends with an end feed gateway at the first end. A mechanical sheet separating and segregating device splits off and segregates each successive bottom-most lift of the stack from the remainder thereof and urges same through the gateway. The sheet separating and segregating device includes a stabber-separator movable toward the first end to support the stack at a selected distance above the bottom of the magazine and a pin extender movable toward the first end into the stack at a selected distance above the stabber-separator for segregating a bottom-most lift of the stack by being interposed in the stack above said lift. The stabber-separator is movable toward the second end of the bottom to a position spaced from the stack, thereby permitting the lift to drop to the bottom, and is movable back toward the first end directly under the pin extender. A lift extracting device includes a pusher movably mounted on the bottom and movable toward the first end to push the lift under the stabber-separator through the gateway.