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US 12,024,386 B2Granted
Output tray
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsMarta Ramis Llinares, Alberto Arredondo Rosales, Felix Ruiz Martinez, Ferran Esquius Rafat
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Abstract
An output tray for a printer, a printer comprising the output tray, and a kit of parts including the output tray. The output tray comprises a spool, a guide member, and a sheet attached between to the spool and the guide member. The guide member is movable between a stowed and one or more deployed positions. The sheet is deployed from a stored configuration to one or more in-use positions upon movement of the guide member.
Claims7
An output tray for a printer, the output tray comprising:
- a pair of lateral support walls including joints, where the lateral support walls fix the output tray directly to a printer body;
- a spool connected to and spanning the lateral support walls;
- a guide member including an elongate member parallel to a rotational axis of the spool and a pair support members perpendicular to the rotational axis of the spool, wherein the support members are connected to the elongate member at one end and connected to respective joints of the lateral support walls at an opposite end, wherein the support members enable the guide member to move between a stowed and one or more deployed positions;
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- a sheet attached between to the spool and the guide member, wherein the spool enables the sheet to be substantially slack or substantially taut at each of the one or more in-use positions.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.