Ejection tray for a printer

Details Ejection tray for a printer Ejection tray for a printer

1997-11-17

2000-07-18

Hilten, John S.

Typewriting machines

Sheet or web

For feeding sheet from stack or pack holder

400646, 400647, B41J 1310

Patent

active

060897724

ABSTRACT:
A printer includes a housing defining a media feed portion and a media eject port, the housing being adapted to house a print engine for printing onto recording media. Included in the printer is a base slideably receivable in the housing at a position laterally distanced from the media eject port, the base having at least a pair of recesses extending in a sliding direction of the base. A pair of flaps are included in the printer, each of which has at least one width portion corresponding to the lateral distance between the base and the eject port. Each flap is hinged into a corresponding recess of the base and is biased in an upward direction via a spring which provides for angular motion of the flap relative to the base. Upon sliding action of the base out of the housing, the flaps are biased upward out of the recesses to a height corresponding to the position of the media eject port.

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