Sheet feeding apparatus

Details Sheet feeding apparatus Sheet feeding apparatus

1993-08-12

1994-09-27

Schacher, Richard A.

Sheet feeding or delivering

Feeding

Multiple supplies

B65H 106

Patent

active

053501659

ABSTRACT:
A sheet feeding apparatus is provided including a sheet stacking portion constructed and arranged to receive a plurality of sheets of different sheet widths stacked in a sheet feeding direction in order of width so that the widest sheets are disposed at a lowermost position of the sheet stacking portion; a first pair of guides provided in the sheet stacking portion and being constructed and arranged to restrict a lateral position of the widest sheets along a predetermined path; at least one other pair of guides provided in the sheet stacking portion and being constructed and arranged to restrict a lateral position of sheets having a width narrower than a width of the widest sheets along a predetermined path and to contact an upper surface of a sheet of the widest sheets disposed immediately beneath the narrower sheets; and at least one feeder constructed and arranged to move successive sheets of the plurality of sheets from the stacking portion such that the widest sheets are first moved from the stacking portion until all sheets of the widest sheets are moved and thereafter the feeder moving the narrower sheets.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3754753 (1973-08-01), Gorner et al.
patent: 4786044 (1988-11-01), Moody
patent: 4838535 (1989-06-01), Yokoi
patent: 5085419 (1992-02-01), Bell
patent: 5127646 (1992-07-01), Matsuda
Patent Abstract of Japan, vol. 8, No. 177 (M-317)(1614) Aug. 1984 re JP 59069322.

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