Paper feeding cassette to load paper of various sizes
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorWon-kil Chang
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Abstract
A paper feeding cassette includes a frame provided with a bottom plate to support paper and a plurality of walls to define a paper loading size. The paper feeding cassette also includes a loading size adjustment device to pivotally connect at least one of the walls to be hinged on the bottom plate, so that the at least one wall is movable between a vertical position to limit the paper loading size, and a horizontal position to not limit the paper loading size, enabling a variation of the paper loading size. Since the loading size of the paper feeding cassette is varied in accordance with a size of papers to be used, papers of various sizes may be used without having to increase a size of the cassette and an office machine which uses the cassette.
Claims28
A paper feeding cassette to load papers, comprising:
- a frame provided with a bottom plate to support the papers, and a plurality of walls to define a paper loading size;
- a plurality of loading size adjustment device to pivotally connect at least one of the walls to be hinged on said bottom plate, so that said at least one wall is movable between a vertical position to limit the paper loading size and a horizontal position to not limit the paper loading size, enabling a variation of the paper loading size above a predetermined size;
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- a guide member selectively moveable between said bottom plate when said at least one wall is in the vertical position and said at least one wall when said at least one wall is in the horizontal position.
A paper feeding cassette to load papers, comprising:
- a frame provided with a bottom plate to support the papers, and a plurality of walls to define a paper loading size;
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- a loading size adjustment device to pivotally connect at least one of the walls to be hinged on said bottom plate, so that said at least one wall is movable between a vertical position to limit the paper loading size and a horizontal position to not limit the paper loading size, enabling a variation of the paper loading size above a predetermined size,
- wherein the loading size adjustment device comprises:
- at least one locking part to lock said at least one wall in the vertical position when said at least one wall is moved to the vertical position;
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- at least one hinge part to movably support said at least one wall, so that said at least one wall is pivoted between said vertical position and said horizontal position, and
- wherein said locking part comprises:
- at least one hook member formed on at least one of one end and the other end of a portion of said at least one wall;
- at least one hook member locking groove formed on at least one of portions of neighboring walls positioned adjacent to said at least one wall to correspond to said hook member;
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- a hook member actuating part to lock said hook member in said hook member locking groove and to release said hook member from said locking groove.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.