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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 1995
Filed:
Mar. 31, 1994
Christopher J Anton, Rosemount, MN (US);
Wayne A Pickett, Blaine, MN (US);
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
A receive magazine configured to be positioned in a generally upright, vertical orientation for passively collecting a plurality of flexible sheets of media. The top wall of the enclosure has a collection door in the top wall of a light-tight enclosure allows sheets of media to be passively received within the magazine. A contoured plate is hinged along a hinge line near the collection door on a non-stacked side of the enclosure. The plate is planar near the hinge line and is non-planar at an end of the plate opposite from the hinge line. A biasing mechanism is positioned near the collection door for resiliently biasing the plurality of flexible sheets of media laterally toward the non-stacking side of the enclosure biasing the plate away from the non-stacking side of the enclosure. Thus, the plurality of flexible sheets of media can be passively received through the collection door stacks, can contact the plate and can stack on the stacking side of the enclosure with a stack of the plurality of flexible sheets of media being contoured as determined by the non-planar portion of the contoured plate.