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US 10,882,706 B2Granted
Photo cassette for a mobile printer
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsKeith Jariabka, Juan D Ramos
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Abstract
In one example, a photo cassette for a mobile printer includes a support surface to support a stack of photo media sheets, a cover to at least partially cover the stack of photo media sheets, and a window formed in the cover to receive a pinch mechanism of the mobile printer through the window to provide a normal force to the stack of photo media sheets.
Claims9
A photo cassette for a mobile printer, comprising:
- a support surface to support a stack of photo media sheets;
- a cover to at least partially cover the stack of photo media sheets;
- a window formed in the cover to receive a pinch mechanism of the mobile printer through the window to provide a normal force to the stack of photo media sheets;
- a movable pick rack including teeth on a first side to interact with a power take-off (PTO) gear;
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- an elastomer pick pad coupled to a second side of the movable pick rack to pick and advance one of the photo media sheets at a time from the photo cassette.
3 more elements
A mobile printing system, comprising:
- a main input tray;
- a print engine;
- a main pick mechanism to move standard media sheets from the main input tray toward the print engine along a media path;
- a removable photo cassette including a movable pick rack that includes a plurality of teeth on a first side and an elastomer pick pad on a second side to move photo media sheets from the photo cassette to the main pick mechanism for further movement of the photo media sheets toward the print engine along the media path;
- a printer controller to control operation of the print engine, the main pick mechanism, and the pick rack;
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- a cassette gear, coupled to the movable pick rack, in the photo cassette to cause movement of the pick rack through an interaction between the cassette gear, the plurality of teeth of the pick rack, and a power take-off gear.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.