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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2018
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Angel Macuha Alagos, Liloan, PH;
Edmund Hulin James, III, Lexington, KY (US);
Stacey Vaughan Mitchell, Lexington, KY (US);
Chad Michael Piening, Lexington, KY (US);
Louann Behymer Samuels, Georgetown, KY (US);
Curtis Duane Woodson, Georgetown, KY (US);
LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC., Lexington, KY (US);
Abstract
Separation strips in a dam aid in the separation of adjacent sheets of media being fed from a stack of sheets so that only one sheet is fed to a process station and, more particularly, to separating the uppermost or top sheet of a stack of sheets from the next adjacent sheet during feeding of the top sheet from the stack of sheets of media. When a lift plate is present that adjusts the height of the media stack, rotation of the separation strips to maintain a constant separation angle improves media feed reliability. Curvature of the separation strips may also maintain the separation angle as the lift plate raises the position of the top media sheet.