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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2013
Applicant:
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Inventors:
Michael J Linder, Walworth, NY (US);
Benjamin Paulson, Webster, NY (US);
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 5/00 (2006.01); B65H 7/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 5/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus that adjusts the step count at which a tray low paper condition is declared based on the number of outstanding feed commitments and the average number of feeds between tray increments. After a first tray increment has occurred, feeder software will wait a pre-determined number of additional tray increments, and will then calculate the average number of feeds between increments. Using this average and the number of outstanding feed commitments a low paper condition is declared when a predetermined logical test is true.