Apparatus and method for removing paper jams from printers

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1992-07-09

1993-09-21

Eickholt, Eugene H.

Typewriting machines

Sheet or web

For feeding web record-medium

400679, 226 92, 271311, B41J 1126

Patent

active

052463001

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for removing media jams from a printer throat in a printer in its preferred form is a sheet of flexible material having two linear arrays of spaced pin apertures aligned along opposing sides thereof. The pin apertures are sufficiently spaced to align and mate with pins of a pin drive mechanism of a media feed system. The media feed system advances the apparatus through the printer throat to remove any pieces of media or other debris lodged therein. The sheet of flexible material has a thickness which is at least 50% of the thickness of the printer throat and a compressive strength greater than that of the media or debris lodged in the printer throat. The apparatus provides an efficient, inexpensive, and effective way to remove media jams from a printer. A method for removing media jams using this apparatus is also discussed.

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