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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2000
Terrence L. Fisher, Sr., Rochester, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
Spring nail ( ) for a sheet feeding device ( ). The spring nail ( ) has a mounting end ( ) for attaching to the sheet feeding device ( ) and a free end ( ) opposite the mounting end ( ), the free end ( ) being disposed to engage a top sheet ( ) of a stack of sheets ( ) to be fed and exert a resilient biasing force thereagainst to form a loop or bow in the top sheet ( ) for separating the top sheet ( ) from the stack ( ) when the top sheet ( ) is to be removed from the stack ( ). The spring nails ( ) are preferably positioned for engaging the respective leading corners ( ) of the top sheet ( ) and each has a spring arm portion ( ) between the mounting end ( ) and the free end ( ) having properties of a spring for resiliently biasing the free end ( ) against the top sheet ( ).
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