Media transport
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsHeng LIAO, Soon Ghee Denis YAP, Thong Seng WONG, Wei Lit TEOH
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Abstract
A media transport includes a feed roller to be rotated in a first direction, and an input/output roller to be rotated in the first direction to direct media into a media path with rotation of the feed roller in the first direction, where the feed roller is to be rotated in a second direction opposite the first direction to advance the media within the media path and, with the rotation of the feed roller in the second direction, the input/output roller is to be temporarily decoupled from rotation with the feed roller.
Claims15
A media transport assembly, comprising:
- a feed roller to be rotated in a first direction;
- and
- an input/output roller to be rotated in the first direction to direct media into a media path with rotation of the feed roller in the first direction,
- the feed roller to be rotated in a second direction opposite the first direction to advance the media within the media path, and
- with the rotation of the feed roller in the second direction, the input/output roller to be temporarily decoupled from rotation with the feed roller.
A media transport assembly, comprising:
- a media path to route media to a print zone;
- an input/output roller at an end of the media path to direct media into and out of the media path;
- a feed roller to advance media within the media path;
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- a transmission to rotate the input/output roller with rotation of the feed roller, the transmission including a delay clutch to temporarily decouple rotation of the input/output roller from rotation of the feed roller based on a direction of rotation of the feed roller.
A media transport method, comprising:
- rotating a feed roller in a first direction;
- coupling rotation of an input/output roller with the rotating the feed roller in the first direction to direct media into a media path;
- and
- rotating the feed roller in a second direction opposite the first direction to advance the media within the media path, including temporarily decoupling rotation of the input/output roller from the rotating with the feed roller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.