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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 1997
Filed:
May. 04, 1995
Makoto Kondo, Tokyo, JP;
Shigeki Muramatsu, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
To feed a plurality of cut sheets of paper to a recorder, in a one-by-one picking up manner, a stack plate supports the cut sheets placed on a paper stacking side thereof, a spring member is provided on an opposite side to the paper stacking side of the stack plate, a feed roller is rotated to force out in a paper feed direction a top sheet of the cut sheets placed on the stack plate, as the stack plate is elastically urged by the spring member toward the feed roller, a pawl member separates the top sheet from the rest, as it is forced in the paper feed direction by the feed roller, and a convex stripe part is provided on the paper stacking side of the stack plate, the stripe part extending in a crossing direction with the paper feed direction.