Stacking table for continuously operating sheet feeders

Claim 1

IN A SHEET STACKING DEVICE FOR JOINING A RESIDUAL STACK FROM BELOW WITH A NEW STACK TO PERMIT CONTINUOUS FEEDING OF SHEETS FROM THE TOP, THE COMBINATION OF AN AUXILIARY STACKING PALLET INSERTABLE BETWEEN THE TWO STACKS PRIOR TO JOINING THEM AND HORIZONTALLY WITHDRAWABLE THEREFROM FOR COMBINING BOTH STACKS, SAID PALLET COMPRISING A GRIDLIKE FRAME STRUCTURE HAVING A MAIN PORTION AND A TAILEND PORTION TAPERING IN HEIGHT FROM SAID MAIN PORTION TOWARD THE REAR EDGE OF THE STRUCTURE, AN UPPER GROUP AND A LOWER GROUP OF ROLLERS JOURNALLED IN SAID FRAME STRUCTURE WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE AXES PERPENDICULAR TO THE LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION OF WITHDRAWAL, SAID ROLLERS OF EACH GROUP BEING DISTRIBUTED OVER SUBSTANTIALLY THE ENTIRE TRANSVERSE WIDTH OF SAID FRAME STRUCTURE AND FOLLOWING EACH OTHER IN MUTUALLY SPACED RELATION ALONG SAID LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION, THE ROLLERS OF SAID UPPER GROUP PROTRUDING UPWARDLY FROM SAID FRAME STRUCTURE FOR SUPPORTING THE RESIDUAL STACK, THE ROLLERS, OF SAID LOWER GROUP PROTRUDING DOWNWARDLY FROM SAID FRAME STRUCTURE TO SUPPORT IT ON THE NEW STACK, SAID ROLLERS IN SAID TAIL-END PORTIONS HAVING A SMALLER DIAMETER THAN ELSEWHERE IN SAID FRAME STRUCTURE TO CORRESPOND TO THE DECREASE IN HEIGHT, SAID ROLLERS