Loading mechanism for a modular commercial printer
AssigneeSilverbrook Research Pty Ltd
InventorsKia Silverbrook, Tobin Allen King
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Abstract
A print media loading mechanism for a printer includes a feeding device comprising a pair of surface-defining elements which define surfaces which are movable relative to each other in the same direction parallel to a direction of feed of the print media, the feeding device being operable to engage a leading edge of the print media for feeding it towards an exit region of the printer to effect loading of the printer. A displacement arrangement displaces the surface-defining elements, in a direction transverse to a direction of feed of the print media, into abutment with each other when loading of the print media is required and for displacing the surface-defining elements out of abutment with each other when loading of the print media has been completed.
Claims7
A print media loading mechanism for a printer, the loading mechanism including
- a feeding means comprising a pair of surface-defining elements which define surfaces which are movable relative to each other in the same direction parallel to a direction of feed of the print media, the feeding means being operable to engage a leading edge of the print media for feeding it towards an exit region of the printer to effect loading of the printer;
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- a displacement means for displacing said surface-defining elements, in a direction transverse to a direction of feed of the print media, into abutment with each other when loading of the print media is required and for displacing said surface-defining elements out of abutment with each other when loading of the print media has been completed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.