Patent ID: 8146913

Claim:
A removable media input tray for a media feed device, comprising: a bottom, a front wall, a rear wall and two side walls extending between the front and rear walls, the walls extending upwardly from the bottom, the walls and bottom defining a media storage location for holding media to be fed by the media feed device; the front wall having a front portion having a first height, a rearwardly extending top portion, two side portions extending rearward from the front portion and downward from the top portion and a back portion, the back portion extending vertically from the bottom to a second height that is less than the first height, the front portion, the top portion, the two side portions and the back portion defining a cavity; a mount disposed on one of the side portions of the front wall; and a removable media dam structure removably mountable within the cavity in the front wall, comprising: a media contact surface having a top edge, a bottom edge, and a pair of opposed side panels depending from the media contact surface, the media contact surface extending between the side portions of the front wall with the top edge proximate the top of the front portion and the bottom edge proximate the top of the back portion of the front wall; a mount on one of the opposed side panels for removable engagement with the mount on one of the side portions of the front wall so that the media contact surface forms an obtuse angle with respect to the bottom of the tray when the removable media dam structure is mounted; at least one aperture through the media contact surface of the media dam; and at least one roller rotatably mounted below the media contact surface and having a portion of its surface radially extending through the at least one aperture for contacting media being fed from the removable media input tray, the at least one roller having an axis of rotation transverse to the rearwardly extending side portions of the front wall of the removable media input tray and being engageable with a drive source in the media feed device.