Feeding device

Claim 1

IN A DEVICE FOR FEEDING OVERLAY SHEETS INTO BASE SHEETS, A BASE SHEET CONVEYOR, BASE SHEET FEED MEMBERS FOR ACCURATELY LOCATING BASE SHEETS IN SPACED RELATION ON SAID CONVEYOR, A DRUM MOUNTED FOR ROTATION ON AN AXIS TRANSVERSE TO THE DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT OF SAID CONVEYOR, MEANS FOR ROTATING SAID DRUM IN SYNCHRONISM WITH SAID CONVEYOR, A CHUTE FOR SUPPORTING OVERLAY SHEETS IN STACKED RELATION WITH AT LEAST ONE PORTION OF THE LOWERMOST SHEET ADJACENT SAID DRUM, A GATE FOR PREMITTING ONLY ONE SHEET AT A TIME TO PASS FROM SAID STACK ONTO SAID DRUM, AT LEAST ONE BOTTOM FEED CHUTE PICKER CARRIED BY SAID DRUM AND ADAPTED TO ENGAGE THE LOWERMOST SHEET IN THE STACK AND TO DRAW SAID SHEET FROM THE STACK ONTO SAID DRUM, A STOP CIRCUMFERENTIALLY SPACED FROM SAID GATE IN THE DIRECTION OF FEED MOVEMENT, MEANS FOR DISENGAGING SAID PICKER FROM SAID SHEET AND DEFLECTING THE LATTER INTO ENGEGEMENT WITH SAID STOP, AN ADHESIVE APPLYING UNIT ADJACENT SAID DRUM, AND AN END FEEDER CARRIED BY SAID DRUM BEHIND SAID PICKER AND ACCURATELY POSITIONED WITH RESPECT TO THE POSITIONS OF SAID BASE SHEET FEED MEMBERS, EACH OVERLAY SHEET BEING DISENGAGABLE FROM SAID STOP IN RESPONSE TO ENGAGEMENT OF THE SHEET BY SAID END FEEDER, WHEREBY THE END FEEDER WILL BE PERMITTED TO CARRY THE OVERLAY SHEET PAST SAID ADHESIVE UNIT INTO ENGAGEMENT WITH A BASE SHEET ADVANCING ON SAID CONVEYOR.