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US 5,628,573 AGranted
Document brake for document processing devices
AssigneeSiemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme Aktiengesellschaft
InventorReimund Selke
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Abstract
Document processing device, especially a document printer (10, 110), has a document issuing section which has a slit-like document issuing aperture (28) and a document support (16, 116) arranged downstream of the latter in the document issuing direction. There is arranged on the document support ( 16, 116), parallel to the document issuing aperture (28), a region (50, 150) which inhibits the sliding of a document and projects beyond at least parts (42, 142) of the document support (16, 116).
Claims15
A document processing device, comprising:
- a document issuing section having a slot-like document issuing aperture out of which a document is ejected in a document issuing direction;
- a document support section arranged downstream of the document issuing section in the document issuing direction;
- the document support section having a slide inhibiting region which inhibits sliding of the document, said slide inhibiting region being parallel to said document issuing aperture;
- a lower housing part having a front wall with an upper border, said slide inhibiting region attached to said upper border and projecting beyond said upper border;
- a document support surface on at least a portion of a top of said lower housing part, at least said document support surface and said upper border forming said document support section;
- said upper border being offset from and lower than said document support surface by a predetermined offset distance.
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