Apparatus for feeding, separating, counting and stacking documents at high speed. Documents are stacked in the infeed conveyor and are bottom fed preferably by closed loop belts and an eccentric wheel which continuously jogs the stack. Drive rollers support the closed loop belts which serve to feed the bottom-most documents beneath cooperative stripper means which assures the feeding of only one document at a time towards acceleration rollers and a cooperating platen roller for accelerating docu...

Apparatus for storing documents includes a carousel having a number of pockets and a structure for covering the pockets, the structure having a pair of openings through which documents may be moved into or out of the pockets. A drive is available for separately aligning the pockets with the openings. One opening is vertically oriented and fluid streams are generated for moving documents, through the opening, into or out of pockets. The other opening is horizontally disposed so that documents can...

A novel loose-leaf holder is provided for binding documents such as a multi-leaf computer printout and mounting the same in a suspension-filing and/or storing system. The holder comprises a plastic body which is molded as an integral unit and comprises two side sections which are connected together by a hinge section so that they can be swung toward and away from one another, and document mounting posts carried by one side section and engageable by the other side section. Manually releasable loc...

A document shredder which comprises a strip cutter to cut waste document into strips, a chip cutter to cut the strips into chips, and a minuting device disposed downstream of the chip cutters to cut the chips into pulp-like mass. The minuting device includes a housing having a conical surface formed with cutting teeth, and a conical rotary body formed with cutting teeth in engagement the cutting teeth of the housing.

The disclosure is of apparatus for supporting a stack of documents and feeding the documents, one at a time, from the bottom of the stack to an operating position in a document processing machine.

A document transport for a document scanning device has an elevator for locating a stack of documents to be fed automatically into position to be scanned. The top document is removed from the stack by a feed roller. Other documents which may become entrained with the top document are returned to the stack by separation rollers. The top document is driven into the scanning device against an alignment gate and this action eliminates any skew in the position of the document. At a read or scan stati...

A document holder for releasably binding together loose-leaf stationery items and securing them to either single- or double-rail suspension filing systems is provided by a loose-leaf binder which incorporates a thin external spine structure incorporating at least one hook suitable for suspending the binder from single-rail suspension systems and retractable head- and tail-end hooks suitable for use with double-rail suspension systems.

An attache case having an electronically-controlled, electric combination lock assembly comprising a keyboard mounted flush with the external surface of the case, programming switches for selecting the combination for the lock mounted inside the case and a solar cell unit mounted flush with the external surface of the case for supplying energy for actuating the electronic controls and the lock mechanism. The keyboard and solar cells are mounted on either side of the case handle and are secured t...

Disclosed is a protected document such as a negotiable instrument, a title instrument, identification document or other documents which should be kept secure from illegal copying by color copiers. The method of making the document comprising preprinting a "VOID" or other warning or cancellation phrase pattern in half tone or multitone on the document and camouflaging this pattern is also disclosed.

A device for facilitating the sorting of documents is disclosed. The device includes a housing and a drawer selectively positionable both within the housing and extending from the housing. The housing includes a document accepting portion above and supported by a frame. Both the drawer and the document accepting portion include a series of slots for receiving and temporarily retaining the documents as they are being sorted.