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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2003
Applicants:
Koji Takito, Nisshin, JP;
Shingo Ito, Tajimi, JP;
Inventors:
Koji Takito, Nisshin, JP;
Shingo Ito, Tajimi, JP;
Assignee:
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 3/34 (2006.01); B65H 3/52 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An auxiliary support plate is connected, by a leaf spring, to a middle portion of a lower end of a sheet holder, in a sheet width direction, so that a lower end part of the auxiliary support plate rotates and retracts below an upper surface of the sheet holder. A sheet feed roller, facing an upper surface of the auxiliary support plate, is rotatably supported by an arm, which can rotate about a drive shaft disposed upstream in a sheet advance direction.