Typewriting machines – Sheet or web – Including sheet guide
Patent
1997-09-02
1999-09-14
Burr, Edgar
Typewriting machines
Sheet or web
Including sheet guide
400642, 271264, B41J 1310
Patent
active
059511818
ABSTRACT:
A plurality of spaced-apart deflector guides are positioned over the input platen of a printer. They are suspended from an elongated media shield which extends laterally across an input media path such that a leading edge of media can easily fit under both the media shield and deflector guides. Each deflector guide has a plurality of downward facing surfaces such as ribs for directing the media toward an input slot defined by a top surface of the input platen, a terminal edge of the deflector guides, and a terminal edge of the media shield. The spaces between the deflector guides are wide enough to allow both hands to be placed directly on the media adjacent to or between two deflector guides for easy manual manipulation of a leading edge of the media into general alignment with the input slot where it can be gripped between the main pick roller and opposing pinch wheels for feeding into a print zone on the printer. The invention is applicable to both sheet feed and rollfeed printer devices.
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Claramunt David
Hierro Lluis
Hinojosa Antonio
Burr Edgar
Ghatt Dave A.
Hewlett--Packard Company
Romney David S.
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