Photocopying machine with an auxiliary sheet feeder
AssigneeOlivetti-Canon Industriale S.p.A.
InventorsFelice Giacometto, Andrea Perino, Francesco Beltramo
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Abstract
Improvements relate to a photocopying machine with an auxiliary sheet feeder including a sheet-separation unit which withdraws sheets disposed on a tray. The improvements enable better separation of the sheets and easier removal of jammed sheets. (FIG. 1).
Claims10
A photocopying machine having a body with an auxiliary sheet feeder which includes a casing containing a tray for supporting the sheets to be supplied to the machine and a sheet-separation unit including a motor-driven sheet-separating roller cooperating with a pad, the sheet-separation unit being arranged to supply the sheets to at least one pair of contrarotating register rollers which are carried by the machine and are situated on an entrainment path both for the sheets coming from a main feeder and for sheets coming from the auxiliary feeder, wherein the improvement consists in that the casing is pivotable on the body of the machine and is movable between a raised, working position and a lowered, inoperative position, the casing having a closure hook for restraining the casing in said raised, working position, the hook being connected to a release handle which is situated within the casing and can be operated manually through an opening closed by a cover hinged to the casing.
A photocopying machine according to any of the preceding claims, wherein said pad includes an arm which is hinged to the casing about an axis parallel to the axis of rotation of the roller by means of a pair of pins engaging respective supports with U-shaped profiles which are elongated in a direction perpendicular to the axes of the pins, the arm cooperating with a bearing element situated in a central position between the two supports.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.