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Paper transportation control system

US4424964A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateOct 16, 1981
Grant dateJan 10, 1984
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Expiry dateOct 16, 2001

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB41J13/0054
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

The retard roll in a paper transport mechanism is rotated by the feed roll to transport manually supplied paper when a photodetector indicates that manually supplied paper is present, the retard roll is substantially stationary and serves its normal purpose of preventing more than one sheet at a time from being transported by the feed roll as it rotates in an opposite direction.

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