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C. Itoh Electronics, Inc.

Kenjiro Hidaka

Nicholas Kondur, Jr

The present invention is a sheet feeder for use in combination with a printer. The sheet feeder includes a frame which is substantially symmetrical about a bisecting vertical plane and which has a sheet outlet. The top of the frame is in a first horizontal plane and the printer, which has a sheet inlet, is disposed thereon. The sheet outlet is adjacent and contiguous to the top of the frame and can be aligned with the sheet inlet of the printer. The sheet feeder also includes a first tray and a second tray which are movably coupled to the frame and which are disposed opposingly to each other and parallel to a first plane and a second plane, respectively, which are slanted with respect to the first horizontal plane. A first stack of sheets, face up, and a second stack of sheets, face down, can be disposed on the first and second trays, respectively. The sheet feeder further includes first and second feed rollers, first and second supporting mechanisms for supporting the first and second trays, respectively, and first and second resiliently biasing mechanisms for resiliently biasing the first and second trays, respectively, whereby the first and second trays urge the first and second stacks of sheets, respectively against the first and second feed rollers, respectively.

Multibin sheet feeder for use with a printer

The present invention is a rotatable print head in combination with a multiple print station printing apparatus which includes a movable carrier to which the rotatable carrier is pivotally coupled by an axial rod so that the rotatable print head may rotate substantially an angle of 90.degree., a frame and a driving mechanism which is mechanically coupled to the frame and which drives the movable carrier laterally across the frame in a direction, which is parallel to the axis of rotation of the rotatable print head. The printing apparatus also includes a first platen the print surface of which is disposed in a first plane which is substantially vertical and parallel to the axis of rotation of the rotatable print head and a second platen the print surface of which is disposed in a second plane which is substantially horizontal and also parallel to the axis of rotation of the rotatable print head whereby the rotatable print head may rotate into printing alignment with either the first platen or the second platen. The printing apparatus further includes a rotating mechanism which rotates the axial rod thereby rotating the rotatable print head and which is mechanically coupled to the movable carrier.

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Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Kenjiro Hidaka