Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

David F D Buck

Jeffrey G Bingham

Tim Mitchell Hoberock

Douglas Harriman

Samrin Sing

Donald G Walker

An apparatus in an example comprises a sheet holder, a separator surface, a feed head, and one or more arms. The sheet holder supports one or more sheets of media. The separator surface receives a leading edge of a sheet of the one or more sheets of media. The feed head is selectively positionable against a face of the sheet. The one or more arms extend toward an intermediate location of the separator surface to constrain the sheet from movement away from the separator surface.

Sheet constraint

Various embodiments and methods relating to a kicker are disclosed.

Kicker

A unitary, rotary encoder disk provides low cost, ease of manufacture, and resolution capability exceeding through hole encoders and, in one embodiment, equivalent to that achieve in thin film technologies. The unitary construct is molded as a transparent polymer disk, with integrated mounting features. Either molded disk surface features or laser burning is used to facilitate the position graduation mark forming process.

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Ridgefield, WA, United States of America

David F D Buck