Patent ID: 8459645
Filing Date: 2013-06-11
Classification: B41J,B65H,G03G

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 having a media contact surface along a first portion of an edge of the plate and a first abutment surface along a second portion of the edge; 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 a second abutment surface along a second portion of the edge; 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 the media contact surface extends into the duplex path and the media guiding surface extends into 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 and the second plate being biased in its first position; wherein a media sheet fed into the duplex path contacts the media contact surface actuating the media diverter and moving the first plate to its second position wherein the first abutment surface moves adjacent the second abutment surface blocking 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.