Printer architecture enabling narrow or wide front facing orientation

US8910929B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Xerox Corporation · US

Inventors

• Martin Scott Walsh · Portland, US
• Timothy L. Crawford · Saint Paul, US
• Mark H. Tennant · West Linn, US
• Aaron Boyce · Eastlake, US
• Edward F. Burress · West Linn, US
• Isaac S. Frazier · Portland, US
• John E. Fanning · Portland, US
• Brent R. Jones · Sherwood, US
• Todd D. Smith · Erie, US
• Trevor James Snyder · Newberg, US
• Carl T. Urban · Portland, US
• Paul Gregory Van Gasse · Mountain View, US
• Paul J. Woodward · West Linn, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 19, 2012
• Grant date: Dec 16, 2014
• Expiry date: Oct 19, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49826
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A printer architecture that enables a printer (or other media processing device) with an elongate foot print to be configured with media input and operator controls oriented at either a narrow end or a wide side thereof, that surface becoming the “front” of the unit. Controls and/or display(s) are mounted such that either the end or side orientation can be accommodated. The media input tray includes a separate assembly so that selection of the tray with access to end or side complements the user control panel in establishing the front of the machine. The combination of control/display mounting and oriented media tray structure integration with the print engine to establish which of the printer surfaces is considered the front allows for multiple orientations of the printer and greater flexibility to the customer.