Sheet feeding or delivering – Feeding – Separators
Patent
1995-12-22
1997-05-20
Milef, Boris
Sheet feeding or delivering
Feeding
Separators
271 1011, 271270, B65H 500, B65H 306
Patent
active
056305834
ABSTRACT:
An image forming machine, such as a printer or copier, that includes a photoconductive drum for holding a toner image and a sheet pick/feed mechanism that uses an increasing radius feed roller to vary the speed of the paper in the pick/feed and image areas. The feed roller has a substantially circumferential perimeter defined by a radius that extends out from the central rotational axis of the feed roller. The radius of the feed roller increases in magnitude between a first point on the perimeter and a second point on the perimeter. A frictionally adherent surface on the circumferential perimeter of the feed roller engages the top sheet in a stack of sheet media and moves the top sheet through the pick freed area downstream immediately adjacent to the feed roller and into the image area further downstream immediately adjacent to the photoconductive drum. The top sheet is engaged by the frictionally adherent surface at the first point on the perimeter of the feed roller. The top sheet is thereafter continuously engaged through the second point on the perimeter of the feed roller so that the speed at which the top sheet moves through the pick/feed area into the image area increases as the feed roller rotates from the first point to the second point.
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Hewlett--Packard Company
Milef Boris
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