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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 18, 1996
Hiroyuki Kato, Nagoya, JP;
Akira Sago, Seto, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
A sheet-supply device for supplying a sheet from a stack of sheets to a print mechanism, the sheet supply device including: a sheet-feed roller for feeding the sheet in a sheet-feed direction; a rotatable transport roller disposed downstream from the sheet-feed roller in the sheet-feed direction; a drive source for generating a drive force by rotating in a forward rotational direction to rotate the transport roller in a sheet-transport rotational direction for transporting the sheet away from the sheet-feed roller and a reverse rotational direction to rotate the transport roller in a reverse sheet-transport rotational direction opposite the sheet-transport rotational direction; a drive force transmission mechanism for transmitting drive force from the drive source to the sheet-feed roller to rotate the sheet-feed roller in the sheet-feed rotational direction, the drive force transmission mechanism interrupting transmission of drive force from the drive source to the sheet-feed roller for a short period when the drive force switches from its reverse rotational direction to its forward rotational direction and for a long period longer than the short period when the drive force switches from its forward rotational direction to its reverse rotational direction.