(19)
(11) EP 2 287 099 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
06.03.2013 Bulletin 2013/10

(43) Date of publication A2:
23.02.2011 Bulletin 2011/08

(21) Application number: 10172091.0

(22) Date of filing: 05.08.2010
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC): 
B65H 9/16(2006.01)
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AL AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO SE SI SK SM TR
Designated Extension States:
BA ME RS

(30) Priority: 18.08.2009 US 543095

(71) Applicant: NCR Corporation
Duluth, GA 30096 (US)

(72) Inventors:
  • Kallin, Frederik
    Waterloo Ontario N2L 5T3 (CA)
  • Ross, Robert
    Waterloo Ontario N2L 4V7 (CA)

(74) Representative: MacLeod, Roderick William 
NCR Limited Intellectual Property Section Discovery Centre 3 Fulton Road
Dundee Tayside, DD2 4SW
Dundee Tayside, DD2 4SW (GB)

   


(54) Document Deskewing


(57) A document deskewing module (200) is provided for a self service bunch document depositing terminal (10). The document deskewing module (200) comprises a set of sensors (208) arranged to detect when a document transported along a document transport path (61) from a mixed bunch of documents including documents of a first type and documents of a second type which is different from the first type is deskewed. The module (200) includes: hard drive rollers (210) disposed along the document transport path (61), a first set of idler rollers (212) moveable towards and away from the hard drive rollers (210), soft drive rollers (310) disposed along the document transport path (61), a second set of idler rollers (312) moveable towards and away from the soft drive rollers (310), and a controller (95) arranged to control operation of the first and second sets of idler rollers (212,312) in response to a number of signals from the set of sensors (208) such that either only the first set of idlers (212) are interacting with the hard drive rollers (210) or only the second set of idlers (312) is interacting with the soft drive rollers (310) at any one time to deskew either a document of the first type or a document of the second type which is different from the first type.







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