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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kok Hong Kan, Singapore, SG;
Assignee:
Venture Manufacturing (Singapore) Ltd., Techplace II, SG;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 1/3042 ; B41J 1/3036 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 1/3042 ; B41J 1/3036 ;
Abstract
An assembly for feeding media associated with a printer or other media manipulating device includes a feed roller and first and second roller support members that rotatably mount first and second pinch rollers, respectively. The pinch rollers apply pressure to media on the feed roller at spaced pinch locations to increase the contact area between the media and the feed roller. One of the roller support members is movable with respect to the other of the roller support members to vary the distance between the first and second pinch locations and stretch the media on the feed roller during media loading.