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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2000
Aaron Wendell Billings, Versailles, KY (US);
David Allen Crutchfield, Lexington, KY (US);
David Vincent Iorio, Lexington, KY (US);
Galen Arthur Rasche, Lexington, KY (US);
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Abstract
A mechanism ( ) which can be used in a printer ( ), for example, for selectively moving sheets from first and second sheet stacks, including a rotating shaft ( ), a mechanism for causing the rotating shaft ( ) to rotate in first and second directions, and first and second media picks ( ). Rotation of the rotating shaft ( ) in the first direction causes the first media pick ( ) to move a sheet from the first sheet stack ( ) and rotation of the rotating shaft ( ) in the second direction causes the second media pick ( ) to move a sheet from the second sheet stack ( ).