Media handling system for lowering and raising stack platform responsive to moving bin between external and internal positions

US7798489B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Lexmark International, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Douglas Andagan Baena, Jr. · Dumaguete, PH
• Moneleo De Castro Cedeno · Iligan, PH
• Daniel Paul Cahill · Verona, US
• William Paul Cook · Lexington, US
• Edward Lynn Triplett · Lexington, US
• Jason Lee Rowe · Richmond, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 15, 2008
• Grant date: Sep 21, 2010
• Expiry date: Aug 15, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65H2801/06
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A media handling system for an image forming machine includes a stationary frame, a platform supporting a stack of media sheets thereon, a bin supporting the platform and in turn supported on the stationary frame for undergoing movement relative thereto between a first position in which the bin locates the platform below and aligned with a pick mechanism and movable relative to the bin toward and away from the pick mechanism and a second position in which the bin displaces the platform away from and out of alignment with the pick mechanism, and a motion transmitting assembly coupled between the stationary frame, platform and bin and operable to convert movement of the bin between first and second positions relative to the stationary frame into movement of the platform relative to the bin toward and away from the pick mechanism.