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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
May. 29, 2012
Jeffrey G Bingham, Vancouver, WA (US);
Devin S. Uehling, Vancouver, WA (US);
Jeffrey G Bingham, Vancouver, WA (US);
Devin S. Uehling, Vancouver, WA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A separator assembly is disclosed herein. An example includes a base to mount to a printing device and a wall supported by the base. The example also includes a singulation assembly adjacent the wall to separate a medium from a media stack and a ramp adjacent the singulation assembly to guide the medium from the media stack to a feed assembly. The example further includes a corner relief feature on either side of and below the ramp into which corners of the medium may drop and travel below a remainder of the medium as the medium is guided from the media stack to the feed assembly and a guide adjacent each corner relief feature to lift the corners of the medium out of the corner relief features before the medium enters the feed assembly. A media handling assembly is also disclosed herein as is a method of media handling.