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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2003
Applicants:
Michael Kurt Gordon, Round Rock, TX (US);
Thomas Campbell Wade, Lexington, KY (US);
Inventors:
Michael Kurt Gordon, Round Rock, TX (US);
Thomas Campbell Wade, Lexington, KY (US);
Assignee:
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H001/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An entrance guide for externally fed sheet () to printer () is configured to bow the sheets. In one embodiment guides () within slothave upper and lower configurations which force sheet into a bow. In one embodiment slot () is bowed and is sufficiently narrow in height to only accept a bowed sheet. The bowed sheets do not sag against the printer (), which aids in sheet registration.