US 7,513,494 B2
	Method and device for selecting the sheets of a record carrier from a pile
Helmut Steinhilber, Sonnenberg Strasse 40, CH-6052 Hergiswil (Switzerland); Ludwig Bantle, Wiesen Strasse 40, D-78662 Herrenzimmern (Germany); and Heinz Froechte, Beethoven Strasse 6, D-78658 Zimmern (Germany)
Filed on Dec. 12, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/734,442.
Claims priority of application No. 102 58 038 (DE), filed on Dec. 12, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2004/0141047 A1, Jul. 22, 2004
Int. Cl. B65H 3/24 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 271—42  [271/34]

13 Claims

5. A device for selecting sheets of a record carrier from a pile in order to feed them to an office machine or a printer, comprising a rolling action device that lies on the uppermost sheet of the pile and exerts a rolling action on the uppermost sheet in a feeding direction, a stop mounted before the front edge of the pile pointing in the feeding direction, wherein the front edge of the uppermost sheet is moved against the stop and wherein the stop can be moved upwards at an impingement angle of more than 90 degrees in relation to a flat plane and a direction in which the uppermost sheet is fed.