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IN AN APPARATUS FOR FEEDING A FIRST SHEET INTO PROPER REGISTRY WITH A SECOND SHEET AND URGING THE TWO SHEEETS INTO INTIMATE SURFACE CONTACT AS THE TWO SHEETS ARE WITHDRAWN FROM THE APPARATUS BY PULLING SAID SECOND SHEET, THE COMBINATION COMPRISING: A FIRST SUPPORT; A FIRST ROLLER IN ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID FIRST SUPPORT TO FORM A FIRST NIP THEREBETWEN; A SECOND SUPPORT; A SECOND ROLLER MOVABLE BETWEEN AN INOPERATIVE POSITION, IN WHICH IT IS DISENGAGED FROM SAID SECOND SUPPORT TO ALLOW THE INTRODUCTION OF SAID SECOND SHEET BETWEEN SAID SECOND ROLLER AND SECOND SUPPORT IN A PREDETERMINED POSITION, AND AN OPERATIVE POSITION, IN WHICH IT PRESSES SAID SECOND SHEET AGAINST SAID SECOND SUPPORT AND COOPERATES WITH ONE SURFACE OF SAID SECOND SHEET TO FORM A SECOND NIP THEREBETWEEN; A DRIVE COUPLING BETWEEN SAID FIRST AND SECOND ROLLERS FOR PRODUCING ROTATION OF SAID FIRST ROLLER UPON ROTATION OF SAID SECOND ROLLER BY MANUAL WITHDRAWAL OF SAID SECOND SHEET FROM BETWEEN SAID SECOND ROLLER AND SAID SECOND SUPPORT; MEANS RESPONSIVE TO MOVEMENT OF SAID SECOND ROLLER TO ITS INOPERATIVE POSITION FOR FEEDING A FIRST SHEET INTO SAID FIRST NIP; AND MEANS FOR GUIDING SAID FIRST SHEET FROM SAID FIRST SUPPORT AND FIRST ROLLER INTO SAID SECOND NIP, SAID FIRST SHEET BEING FED INTO SAID SECOND NIP IN PROPER REGISTRY WITH SAID SECOND SHEET AND URGED INTO INTIMATE SURFACE CONTACT THEREWITH UPON MANUAL WITHDRAWAL OF SAID SECOND SHEET FROM APPARATUS WHILE SAID SECOND ROLLER IS IN ITS OPERATIVE POSITION.