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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 1990
Filed:
Aug. 11, 1988
Yutaka Maeda, Osaka, JP;
Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a cutting device for use as a feeder for cutting a strip of recording medium in the form of a roll into sheets and for feeding each sheet to the image forming unit of a copying machine or like image forming apparatus. A device embodying the present invention comprises a pair of delivery rollers, a cutter, and a holding member. In the device of the present invention, the strip of the recording medium from the roll is delivered by the delivery rollers by a specified length, cut by the cutter into the sheet, and thereafter held by the holding member at the leading end of the strip from the roll, and the delivery rollers are then retracted from the strip.