Patent ID: 8500124
Filing Date: 2013-08-06
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. A media actuated, media diverter mountable on a guide member for a media sheet in a media path of an imaging device, the media path having a simplex path and a duplex path with the media guide member positioned between an exit of the simplex path and an entrance of the duplex path and an exit of the imaging device, the media diverter comprising: a first plate; a biasing member for biasing the first plate; a second plate having a media guiding surface along a first portion of an edge of the second plate; and the first plate and second plate mounted in a same slot extending through the guide member and movable therein between respective first and second positions, such that when in their respective first positions a portion of the first plate is disposed in the duplex path and the media guiding surface is disposed in the simplex path while the second plate remains movable from its first position to its second position with the biasing member biasing the first plate in its first position; wherein a center of gravity of the second plate moves the second plate to bias the second plate in its first position and further wherein a media sheet fed into the duplex path and contacting the first plate moves the first plate to its second position abutingly blocking all movement of the second plate from its first position with the media guiding surface directing a following media sheet in the simplex path to the exit of the imaging device.