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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 1998
Filed:
Feb. 26, 1997
Jeremy Mayer, San Diego, CA (US);
Juan B Belon, San Diego, CA (US);
A Terence Kennedy, San Diego, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A hard copy apparatus with a print media telescoping tray system is disclosed. The telescoping tray system consists of an output tray, a paper tray, and an output tray position detector. The trays are constrained to translate in one line of motion, a substantially planar path into and out of the front of the apparatus, by nesting the paper tray within the output tray and guiding the trays along the line of motion. The trays telescope in a relatively small vertical opening below the paper feed drive mechanism of the apparatus. The telescoping tray system enables two modes of printing operation by providing a paper output path when in the output tray closed mode and by providing a full tray where printed sheets can be stacked during a multi-sheet or batch print job in an output tray open mode.