Feeder table with photo-scan controlled belt motor

Claim 1

In combination with a pile fed paper folding machine for folding sheets of paper or the like, which includes sheet pick up means, and hold down means on the machine the improvement which comprises a portable feeder table for continuously supplying said sheets for folding which includes a portable housing having therein a motor driven shaft, a single variable speed motor for driving said shaft, a horizontal longitudinally extending table carried by said housing, height adjusting members on the lower part of said housing for adjusting the height of the table to accord with the height of the receiving portion of the machine to which the sheets are to be delivered, said table having an input end and a delivery end, said table having transverse end rollers at said input end and said delivery end and a plurality of flat horizontally disposed spaced endless driving belts carried on said rollers and longitudinally movable along said table, said motor driven shaft being connected in driving relation to said roller at said delivery end, said table having along one side edge thereof a longitudinally extending movable guide plate for one side edge of the sheets to be advanced, said table having at the delivery end a transversely extending nose plate, and detector means responsive to the presence or absence of a pile of paper sheets for controlling the operation of said motor and the advance of sheets to said folding machine for folding.