Card feed mechanism

Abstract

Abstract PURPOSE: To prevent a movement of diagonal travelling during the process of feeding motion, by providing a lateral guide frame and a free roller, with its rotary shaft center in parallel to the feeding surface, and being sloped to the guide frame side from an axis in perpendicular to the feeding direction. CONSTITUTION: When in a process of intake, with the point end of a card 1 hitting a free roller 7, a force of the card 1 causes an arm 8 to be shifted toward the shifting direction of the card 1 with the roller 7 while being rotated. In the arm 8 is provided a concaved groove 9 in the opposite side to the roller 7, restricting a shifting motion of the arm 8 together with a stopper 10. With the roller 7 still in a motion of continuously being driven and rotated, the arm 8, being rotated, causes a rotational direction of the roller 7 to be sloped with a fine degree of angle made to the card travelling direction, resulting in a feeding motion of the card being pressed to a lateral guide frame 4. A motion in the exhaust process is reversely made to the above. In such way, a diagonal movement produced in travelling motion of the cards can be corrected. COPYRIGHT: (C)1980,JPO&Japio

Inventors

• 👤 Ken Okamoto

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