Move bail arms
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsHunter Dane Cantrell, Daniel Fredrickson, Kevin Lo, Emma Kelp-Stebbins
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Abstract
Examples disclosed herein relate to moving a bail arm. Examples include to determine a size of a medium to be ejected to an output tray; acquire a fill state of the output tray; and raise a bail arm to a first position above a receiving surface of the output tray when the size of the medium is larger than a size threshold and the fill state is lower than a stack height threshold.
Claims15
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions executable by a processing resource to:
- determine a size of a medium to be ejected to an output tray;
- acquire a fill state of the output tray;
- and
- raise a bail arm to a first position above a receiving surface of the output tray when the size of the medium is larger than a size threshold and the fill state is lower than a first stack height threshold.
A system to change a position of a bail arm, comprising:
- a medium size detection engine to determine a length of a medium to be ejected onto an output bin along an ejection path of the medium;
- a fill state detection engine to determine a media stack height on the output bin;
- a bail arm movement engine to move a bail arm from a first position to a second position if the length of the medium is greater than a length threshold and the media stack height is within a range, the second position being outside of the ejection path;
- and
- a counterweight application engine to apply a counterweight to the bail arm when the media stack height is within the range.
A method for moving a bail arm of an imaging device, comprising:
- determining a size of a medium to be ejected to an output bin;
- determining a fill state of the output bin;
- moving the bail arm from a rest position to a second position when the size of the medium is larger than a size threshold and the fill state is lower than a stack height threshold, the second position being outside an ejection path of the medium;
- and
- apply a counterweight to the bail arm in the rest position when the medium is larger than the size threshold and the fill state is greater than the stack height threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.