Patent ID: 9745154
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: B65H,G03G

Claim:
1. A removable media tray assembly for providing media to an imaging device, the removable media tray assembly comprising: a housing having an opening therein to receive a removable media tray and a release surface; the removable media tray having: a magnet mounted to one of the housing and the inner surface of the front wall adjacent to the housing opening and a ferromagnetic plate aligned with the magnet and mounted to other of the housing and inner surface of the front wall; a handle pivotable between a first position and a second position, the handle including: wherein, with the removable media tray received into the housing and the magnet and plate in abutment providing a latching force FL holding the removable media tray in a closed position and which is greater than a stall force of a media feeding motor used to feed the media from the removable media tray, a user-supplied actuation force FA applied to the finger bar pivots the handle toward the second position and the link pivots about the mount with the free end of the link applying a release force FR to the release surface thereby opening the removable media tray and moving the plate and magnet apart where FA≦22.2 N, FL>FA, and FR>FL.