Sheet-supply device

Details Sheet-supply device Sheet-supply device

1997-03-24

1999-03-23

Skaggs, H. Grant

Sheet feeding or delivering

Feeding

Separators

271121, 271127, B65H 306

Patent

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058849084

ABSTRACT:
A sheet-supply device including: a hopper for supporting a stack of sheets on a surface thereof and including a sheet guide for aligning a side of the stack of sheets into alignment with a sheet-feed direction; a rotational shaft disposed confronting the hopper and extending in an axial direction perpendicular to the sheet-feed direction; a first sheet-feed roller and a second sheet-feed roller provided on the rotational shaft and for abutting a surface of an uppermost sheet of the stack of sheets so that rotation of the first sheet-feed roller and the second sheet-feed roller feeds the uppermost sheet in the sheet-feed direction, the first sheet-feed roller being disposed nearer the sheet guide than is the second sheet-feed roller; and a first collar and a second collar provided freely rotatable around the rotational shaft, the first collar being positioned substantially centered between the pair of sheet-feed rollers, the second collar being disposed between the first collar and the first sheet-feed roller.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5026042 (1991-06-01), Miller
patent: 5527629 (1996-06-01), Bortolotti et al.
patent: 5582399 (1996-12-01), Sugiura
patent: 5697603 (1997-12-01), Rato
patent: 5711519 (1998-01-01), Bortolotti

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