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US 6,246,466 B1Granted
Sheet pack and recording apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHirofumi Hirano, Tetsuji Kurata
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Abstract
In a sheet pack hermetically containing sheets to be supplied to a recording apparatus in a box-shaped container, the container is provided with a plurality of feeding ports and a plurality of bearing ports for a sheet feeding device provided on the recording apparatus body side to feed the sheets from the feeding ports to bear against the sheets.
Claims26
A sheet pack, mountable on a main body of a printing apparatus, the sheet pack comprising:
- a box-shaped container for enveloping sheets to be supplied to the printing apparatus;
- and
- said container including at least two feeding ports for feeding the sheets to the printing apparatus;
- and
- the printing apparatus including sheet feeding means,
- wherein said sheet pack is mountable on the main body of the printing apparatus with different orientations of said sheet pack with respect to the main body of the printing apparatus, the different orientations corresponding to the at least two feeding ports.
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A printing apparatus having a main body, the apparatus comprising:
- a sheet pack including a box-shaped container for enveloping sheets to be supplied to said printing apparatus;
- sheet feeding means for feeding the sheets from said sheet pack;
- and
- printing means for printing images on the sheets fed by said sheet feeding means,
- wherein said sheet pack is mountable on the main body of said printing apparatus with different orientations of said sheet pack with respect to the main body of said printing apparatus, and wherein the container includes at least two feeding ports to said printing apparatus and a plurality of bearing ports through which said sheet feeding means is brought into contact with the sheets, and
- wherein the different orientations correspond to the at least two feeding ports.
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A printing apparatus comprising:
- a sheet pack having a box-shaped container for enveloping sheets to be supplied to said printing apparatus, the sheet pack including recording label means for writing and reading information regarding the sheets;
- sheet feeding means for feeding the sheets from said sheet pack;
- printing means for printing images on the sheets fed by said sheet feeding means;
- recording label reading means for reading information on said recording label means;
- and
- means for electrically transmitting the information of said recording label means.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.