Sheet feeding or delivering – Feeding – Separator and conveyor
Patent
1995-04-14
1996-12-10
Skaggs, H. Grant
Sheet feeding or delivering
Feeding
Separator and conveyor
271 1002, 271119, 271120, 271121, 27126501, B65H 500
Patent
active
055823998
ABSTRACT:
A sheet feeding device for feeding a sheet stacked on a sheet cassette to an image forming portion of an image recording apparatus. The sheet feeding device includes a sheet supplying roller unit and a sheet feed roller positioned downstream thereof. The sheet supplying roller unit includes an intermediate small diameter portion and integral large diameter portions positioned to interpose the small diameter portion therebetween. Each large diameter portion has a contacting area in contact with the sheet, whereas the intermediate small diameter portion is spaced away from the sheet. A sheet edge detection arm is swingably provided and contactable with the sheet fed by the contacting area. The sheet edge detection arm is movable into a space defined between the small diameter portion and a confronting separation pad. If sheet is fed by the sheet supplying roller unit, the sheet edge detection arm is urged by the sheet and a posture of the arm is changed. The arm is abuttable to a lever member which is pivotally movable in accordance with the movement of the sheet edge detection arm. A photosensor is provided at a moving locus of the lever member. When the lever member moves across the photosensor, sheet edge detection signal is generated.
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Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Skaggs H. Grant
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