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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 1980
Filed:
May. 16, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:
Edward S Wu, Chelmsford, MA (US);
Assignee:
Wang Laboratories, Inc., Lowell, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ; B65H / ; B65H / ; B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
271-4 ; 271-9 ; 271117 ; 271126 ; 271149 ; 271178 ; 400625 ; 400629 ;
Abstract
A printer feeding and stacking mechanism for feeding a printer selectively with individual sheets of paper from one of two feeding hoppers holding stacks of individual sheets and sequentially depositing the typed sheets in a stacking hopper. The device features a selectively operable feeding mechanism mounted between the two feeding hoppers; mechanism for moving the feeding hopper walls between operating and loading positions; and mechanism for sequentially stacking the printed sheets into the stacking hopper.