A document reader for use in a facsimile system which generates a continuous output signal without the use of complex memory circuitry. Light-receiving devices are divided into plural ordered groups of ordered light-receiving devices. A voltage application switch is provided for each group which selectively couples first terminals each of the light-receiving devices in that group to a positive power source or ground. Common lines connect second terminals of like order ones among even number-orde...

A document coder for selectively removing teeth projecting from the bottom edge of a card, thereby encoding the card, including an elongated horizontally disposed block having a slot in its upper surface for receiving and guiding the tooth-bearing edge of a card to be coded, and having a plurality of transverse horizontally disposed bores which communicate with both the exterior of the block and the card edge guide slot. Also included are a plurality of punch and die assemblies. Each assembly ha...

In a document feeder, documents are urged upwardly in a tray under the control of a photoelectric servo system. A shuttleplate having vacuum ports formed in it is mounted at the upper end of the tray, and a vacuum is maintained in the vacuum ports so that the uppermost document from the tray is engaged with the shuttleplate by vacuum attraction. Upon demand, the shuttleplate is reciprocated initially upwardly to clear the uppermost document from the tray over an upstanding lip. Then the shuttlep...

A document holder or filing device comprising a rigid spine piece dimensioned to accommodate the spine of the binding of a book-like item to be filed, said spine piece having head and tail ends, and at least one finger at both head and tail ends dimensioned and movably disposed to engage the associated head and tail ends of the spine between themselves and the spine piece, first and second interlocking means so configured and disposed as to be engageable one with the other and, when engaged, pre...

A holder for documents, such as traffic parking violation citations includes a hollow elongated housing having a small opening therein to permit a rolled-up or folded-over document to be inserted therethrough and thus into the interior of the housing away from the small opening to trap the document within the housing. A door is swingably mounted over a larger opening in the housing for permitting access to the interior thereof to facilitate the removal of the document therefrom. A lock is provid...

A document shredder having first and second rotary cutting disks alternatively arranged and held in shredding engagement with one another to shred waste material into strips, first spacer members disposed in first gaps formed between the first rotary cutting disks, and second spacer members disposed in second gaps formed between the second rotary cutting disks. The first stationary cutting members have cutting edges held in shredding engagement with outer peripheries of the second rotary cutting...

An electrophotographic copier has an extended transport path, including a storage for duplex functions, for copying documents which may be reproduced, to a selectable number of copies, from a master. The master is positioned first at an imaging station, so that the desired number of image transfers to copies can be made. The master document transport system recirculates the imaged master, holding it at a storage station spaced apart from the image station, while a second master is positioned at ...

A document holder has a rigid spine piece dimensioned to accommodate the spine of the binding of the document to be filed and a plurality of fingers at both head and tail ends dimensioned and movably disposed to engage the head and tail of the spine between themselves and the spine piece.

A scanner for scanning a document positioned against a backing surface to determine the position of the document includes photoelectric transducers which provide electrical scan signals in dependence upon the light reflected from the document and from the backing surface at a plurality of moving scan positions as the scan positions move across both the document and the backing surface. A recognizable background image is defined on the document backing surface such that the photoelectric transduc...

An automated "two-up" in-line mailing (AIM) system of the type comprising a continuous sheet web supplier (11), a sheet cutter (13), a registerer (15), a folder (17), a collector sequencer (19), and an envelope inserter raceway (21) is controlled by indicia on a sheet web. A control system includes scanners (55) for sequentially sensing the web indicia (57) upstream of a cutting blade (64) and trailing edge sensors (37, 53) at discharge ends of two collectors (23, 25) in the collector sequencer ...