Sheet feeding or delivering – Feeding – Separators
Patent
1996-09-04
1997-12-16
Skaggs, H. Grant
Sheet feeding or delivering
Feeding
Separators
271 1012, 271119, 271126, B65H 306
Patent
active
056976038
ABSTRACT:
Sheet-supply device including a sheet support supporting a stack of cut sheets including an uppermost sheet; a rotatable sheet-supply roller having a rotational shaft and an outer peripheral surface around the rotational shaft, the peripheral surface including a sheet contact portion and a sheet non-contact portion alternately in confrontation with the uppermost sheet depending on the rotational phase of the sheet-supply roller, the sheet contact portion and the rotational shaft having a distance therebetween greater than a distance between the non-contact portion and the rotational shaft; drive unit capable of switching between a transmission condition for transmitting rotational force to the sheet-supply roller and a non-transmission condition for interrupting transmission of rotational force to the sheet-supply roller, the drive unit serially feeding cut sheets from the sheet support by switching to the transmission condition and rotating the sheet-supply roller with the sheet contact portion in contact with the uppermost cut sheet; and a bearing member abutting, when the drive unit is in the non-transmission condition, the uppermost cut sheet to support the sheet-supply roller oriented with the sheet non-contact portion in confrontation with the uppermost cut sheet.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5582399 (1996-12-01), Sugiura
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Skaggs H. Grant
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