Automatic paper loader for a printer
CA 2360769 A1 · Owner: Whittaker, Sean E. · Inventors: Whittaker, Sean E.
Overview
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Apparatus for automatically loading paper from a supply roll (19) into a printer (10). The printer includes a base (12) and a cover (13 14) hinged to , the base. A contoured guide is mounted adjacent to a drive roll to form a paper path that converges from an upper entrance region to a lower exit region in the direction of the drive roll rotation. A biased member is mounted in the top cover of the printer and is arranged to move into contact with the drive roll within the entrance region when the cover is closed. In practice when , the cover is open a run of paper from the roll is placed over the entrance region to the paper path. Closing the cover produces rotation of the drive roll …
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- Filed November 21, 2000. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended November 21, 2020.
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