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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 25, 1997
Noriaki Sekine, Iwatsuki, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A system and method for feeding paper into an image forming device which allows sheets of paper to be manually fed without becoming jammed. The paper feeding cassette uses one or more corner separators which hold down the corner(s) of the paper in the cassette while a feed roller rotates. The rotation of the feed roller in combination with the corner separators causes one sheet of paper to be removed from the paper cassette. During a manual feed operation in which a user manually feeds a single sheet of paper, a guide plate deflects the manually fed sheet of paper above the corner separators, thus preventing the sheet of paper from becoming jammed under the corner separators.