Sheet feeding or delivering – Feeding – Separators
Reexamination Certificate
2005-10-14
2009-11-17
Mackey, Patrick H (Department: 3653)
Sheet feeding or delivering
Feeding
Separators
C271S167000, C271S124000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07618036
ABSTRACT:
A paper feed unit, which is provided with a paper feed roller disposed such that an outer circumferential surface thereof contacts stacked sheets of paper so as to feed each sheet of paper by rotating, a separating pad having elasticity configured to press a sheet of paper being forwarded by the paper feed roller against the outer circumferential surface of the paper feed roller from a side of the sheet of paper opposite to the other side contacting the outer circumferential surface of the paper feed roller, a holder that supports the separating pad, and a biasing device that biases the holder so as to press the separating pad against the outer circumferential surface of the paper feed roller, for separating each sheet of paper from the stacked sheets by the rotation of the paper feed roller in cooperation with the separating pad and thus feeding the sheet of paper.
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Banner & Witcoff Ltd
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Mackey Patrick H
Sanders Howard
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