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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 24, 1997
Hiroyuki Kato, Nagoya, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
A sheet-supply device including: a hopper for supporting a stack of sheets on a surface thereof and including a sheet guide for aligning a side of the stack of sheets into alignment with a sheet-feed direction; a rotational shaft disposed confronting the hopper and extending in an axial direction perpendicular to the sheet-feed direction; a first sheet-feed roller and a second sheet-feed roller provided on the rotational shaft and for abutting a surface of an uppermost sheet of the stack of sheets so that rotation of the first sheet-feed roller and the second sheet-feed roller feeds the uppermost sheet in the sheet-feed direction, the first sheet-feed roller being disposed nearer the sheet guide than is the second sheet-feed roller; and a first collar and a second collar provided freely rotatable around the rotational shaft, the first collar being positioned substantially centered between the pair of sheet-feed rollers, the second collar being disposed between the first collar and the first sheet-feed roller.