That's a very cool project.
But I wonder how it gets over the initial friction of lifting and pulling the paper through as it goes lower on the stack. Surely there's a limit after which, you'd need to remove the completed sheets off the top?
But I wonder how it gets over the initial friction of lifting and pulling the paper through as it goes lower on the stack. Surely there's a limit after which, you'd need to remove the completed sheets off the top?
Bang and Olufsen sells a lot of home electronics that meet that description.
Top Paper
1 ---------
Gap Tray
2 ---------
Bottom Paper
Pages would probably be upside down of their original unless they were fed back and forth.
All the paper would need lifted up, so there would be a limit, unless... a different idea would be the same thing along a horizontal track of papers.
I'm still liking the idea of a scanner shredder. http://designforpeople.ca/?p=215
To extend this stack design make it like an inverted shredder with a 5" shop vac hose connected to the top :P
The Gap Tray itself would still need to rest on something while it grabs the bottom sheet. There may be slightly less effort if it grabs the sheets from the side rather than from top/bottom. This way, has a shorter distance it has to pull through, but the friction may still be significant.
All this talk has really whet my appetite, though. Now I really want to see it come to life.
This is freaking beautiful. I hope it can work.