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Portable printing apparatus with movable paper feed gate

  • US 5,006,002 A
  • Filed: 04/11/1989
  • Issued: 04/09/1991
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/11/1989
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. In a portable printing apparatus including a printer, the combination comprising:

  • a housing for containing and supporting a printer, said housing having first and second separable sections with opposed first and second walls and mating peripheral edges that releasably interfit with one another to close the housing along said peripheral edges, said housing having an access opening to admit into said housing printing sheets in a fan-fold stack having joined perforated edge portions defining perforations for tearing separation of the sheets and a cover for covering said access opening during use, said housing having a discharge slot through which each sheet is discharged after having printing performed thereon, andsheet and printer support means mounted in said housing including a tray with an opening for receiving and supporting said stack, said tray opening being covered by said cover during use, a shelf-like support wall extending beyond a wall of said tray for supporting a printer and a movable feed gate adjacent an edge surface of said tray wall supported for bidirectional movement relative to said edge surface defining a sheet feed slot of a variable size to allow said perforations to pass through said feed slot as a succession of said sheets are passed from said stack through said feed slot, through said printer and out said discharge slot,said tray including spaced side walls and spaced end walls, one of said end walls having a top edge terminating below the top edge of the side walls, said movable feed gate having ends and being slidably supported at said ends by said side walls with said top edge of said one end wall and a bottom edge of said gate defining said sheet feed slot,said ends of said gate being slidably confined in a pair of opposed facing channel means along the inside of said side walls and including a slide coupling means slidably interconnecting the ends of said gate with said side walls,said slide coupling means having cooperating means to hold said gate in a raised position when the cover is retracted to facilitate feeding of the top sheet of said stack into the printer.

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