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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. 29, 1992
Filed:
Mar. 26, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tadafumi Shimizu, Toyokawa, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
271 98 ; 271104 ; 271105 ; 271106 ;
Abstract
A sheet feeding apparatus comprising a sheet supporting device for supporting a stack of sheets, a vacuum transporting device adapted to suck a top sheet of the stack and transport it, and a device adapted to locate forcibly at least two portions of the top sheet away from the vacuum transporting device so as to corrugate the top sheet.