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US 5,083,767 AGranted
Sheet supplying device
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKen-ichi Iwamoto, Yuuji Sugimoto, Kenji Okada, Tadasu Taniguchi, Yoshikado Yamada, Toyoaki Namba
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Abstract
A sheet supplying device has at least one sheet stacking portion for stacking a plurality of sheets to be fed, a unit for drawing the sheets out of the sheet stacking portion to feed the drawn sheet to a predetermined path, and a unit for returning a sheet into the sheet stacking portion. This sheet is drawn by the drawing unit but stayed in a position that the leading edge thereof is out of the sheet stacking portion.
Claims8
A sheet supplying device comprising:
- at least one sheet cassette for stacking a plurality of sheets to be fed;
- means for rotating said sheet cassette between a longitudinal sheet supply position and a lateral sheet supply position;
- means for drawing the sheets out of said sheet cassette to feed the drawn sheet to a predetermined path;
- means for returning a sheet into said sheet cassette, said sheet being drawn by said drawing means but stayed in a position that the leading edge thereof is out of said sheet cassette;
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- means for actuating said return means before rotating said sheet cassette.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.