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US 8,602,410 B2Granted
Sheet stackable devices
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYuichiro Kuriki
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Abstract
A sheet stackable device including a first tray having a first placement plane, a second tray having a second placement plane and a slider groove, the second tray being swingable about a swing axis between a first position and a second position, a first guide arranged on the first placement plane, a second guide arranged on the second placement plane, a first projection provided in the second guide and formed to project from the first guide or the second guide, and a joint allowing relative swing movement between the first guide and the second guide about the swing axis, is provided. A height of the joint is smaller than a height of the first projection. The first tray and the second tray form an opening in a position between edges of the first tray and the second tray when the second tray is in the first position.
Claims11
A sheet stackable device, comprising:
- a first tray comprising a first placement plane configured to form a part of a stackable plane and to receive placement of a sheet;
- a second tray comprising a second placement plane configured to form a part of the stackable plane with the first placement plane, and a slider groove, the second tray being swingable, about a swing axis extending in parallel with an extending direction of the slider groove, between a first position and a second position, the first tray and the second tray being configured to form an opening between an edge of the first tray on a side of the swing axis and an edge of the second tray on a side of the swing axis when the second tray is in the first position;
- a first guide arranged on the first placement plane;
- a second guide arranged on the second placement plane and configured to slide along the slider groove in the extending direction;
- a first projection provided in the second guide and formed to project from the second guide in a projecting direction orthogonal to the second placement plane;
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- a joint configured to connect the first guide and the second guide rotatably with respect to each other, the first guide and the second guide being integrally slidable in the extending direction, a height of the joint from the second placement plane of the second tray in the projecting direction, when the second tray is in the second position, being smaller than a height of the first projection from the second placement plane of the second tray in the projecting direction,
- wherein a second projection projecting in a second direction orthogonal with respect to the first placement plane is formed at one end of the first guide, the joint being provided at another end of the first guide.
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A sheet stackable device, comprising:
- a first tray comprising a first placement plane configured to form a part of a stackable plane and to receive placement of a sheet;
- a second tray comprising a second placement plane configured to form a part of the stackable plane with the first placement plane, and a slider groove, the second tray being swingable, about a swing axis extending in parallel with an extending direction of the slider groove, between a first position and a second position, the first tray and the second tray being configured to form an opening between an edge of the first tray on a side of the swing axis and an edge of the second tray on a side of the swing axis when the second tray is in the first position;
- a first guide arranged on the first placement plane;
- a second guide arranged on the second placement plane and configured to slide along the slider groove in the extending direction;
- a first projection provided in the second guide and formed to project from the second guide in a projecting direction orthogonal to the second placement plane;
- a joint configured to connect the first guide and the second guide rotatably with respect to each other, the first guide and the second guide being integrally slidable in the extending direction, a height of the joint from the second placement plane of the second tray in the projecting direction, when the second tray is in the second position, being smaller than a height of the first projection from the second placement plane of the second tray in the projecting direction;
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- an upper cover arranged in an upper position with respect to the first tray,
- wherein, when the second tray in the second position is viewed along the extending direction, the first projection is exposed from the upper cover and the stackable plane.
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A sheet stackable device, comprising:
- a first tray comprising a first placement plane configured to form a part of a stackable plane and to receive placement of a sheet;
- a second tray comprising a second placement plane configured to form a part of the stackable plane with the first placement plane, and a slider groove, the second tray being swingable, about a swing axis extending in parallel with an extending direction of the slider groove, between a first position and a second position, the first tray and the second tray being configured to form an opening between an edge of the first tray on a side of the swing axis and an edge of the second tray on a side of the swing axis when the second tray is in the first position;
- a first guide arranged on the first placement plane;
- a second guide arranged on the second placement plane and configured to slide along the slider groove in the extending direction;
- a first projection provided in the second guide and formed to project from the second guide in a projecting direction orthogonal to the second placement plane;
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- a joint configured to connect the first guide and the second guide rotatably with respect to each other, the first guide and the second guide being integrally slidable in the extending direction, a height of the joint from the second placement plane of the second tray in the projecting direction, when the second tray is in the second position, being smaller than a height of the first projection from the second placement plane of the second tray in the projecting direction,
- wherein the second guide comprises a bifurcated portion extending from the first projection in two-split pieces at one end of the second guide, the joint being provided at the same end of the second guide as the bifurcated portion,
- wherein the first guide comprises an interpolated portion being insertable in a position between the two-split pieces in the bifurcated portion, at one end of the first guide, the joint being provided at another end of the first guide, and
- wherein the joint includes the bifurcated portion of the second guide and the interpolated portion of the first guide.
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