Typewriting machines – Sheet or web – For feeding sheet from stack or pack holder
Patent
1997-11-28
1999-06-22
Eickholt, Eugene
Typewriting machines
Sheet or web
For feeding sheet from stack or pack holder
400605, B41J 702
Patent
active
059136251
ABSTRACT:
The invention accomplishes print medium feed functions, at least in part, by making use of pre-existing printer apparatus that is used to accomplish other functions of the printer. For example, the invention can enable the use of a single print drive mechanism to accommodate multiple print medium feed paths within a printer and, in particular, feed paths in which print media are fed into the print drive mechanism in different (e.g., opposite) directions. Additionally, the invention can enable a rotatable media guide that can be positioned in one position to guide a sheet of a print medium during a print operation and in another position to release the sheet of the print medium after the printing operation, to be positioned in still another position to facilitate guiding a sheet of a print medium into a print drive mechanism after the sheet has traversed a gap in the feed path. The invention can also enable sensing of print medium insertion into a print medium feed path using pre-existing sensing apparatus within a printer that is used for other sensing purposes.
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Trovinger Steven W.
Wong Joseph S.
Eickholt Eugene
Hewlett--Packard Company
Potts Jerry R.
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