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Printing assembly with continuous stock cutter and sheet feeder for feeding cut sheets to printer

  • US 6,039,479 A
  • Filed: 08/11/1998
  • Issued: 03/21/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/29/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. In a printing assembly having a discrete sheet printer with a discrete sheet supply tray and means for automatically transporting a discrete sheet from the supply tray to the printer for printing, the improvement being a continuous discrete sheet supply enhancement apparatus, comprising:

  • an open tray for receipt through space of at least one discrete sheet;

    means for cutting a supply of continuous stock into discrete sheets;

    means for transferring a free end of the continuous stock to the cutting means at a feed-in speed; and

    means for ejecting a discrete sheet cut from the free end of the continuous stock away from the cutting means with a falling trajectory, through space, that moves the discrete sheets into the open tray for operative engagement with the discrete sheet transporting means of the printer,said ejecting means including means for ejecting the discrete sheets into space at a feed-out speed greater than the feed-in speed, andsaid feed-out speed being sufficiently greater than the feed-in speed to create a gap through space between successive discrete sheets, said gap being of sufficient gap width to enable each discrete sheet to fall sufficiently in its falling trajectory before a next successive sheet is ejected to avoid collision between successively ejected discrete sheets.

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