Patent ID: 8439354

Claim:
A reprographic device including a feed mechanism that employs a nudger roll for advancing media seriatim from a media stack to a set of take-away rolls and a device for controlling contamination of the nudger roll, comprising: a media tray for holding a stack of media to be fed therefrom; a nudger roll for feeding media seriatim from said media tray; a lift plate for raising said media from a bottom portion of said media tray into contact with said nudger roll; a pick pad disposed on said lift plate and adapted to provide a predetermined coefficient of friction between a bottommost media in said stack of media and said lift plate, said pick pad including an opening therein; an abrasive member positioned on said lift plate below said pick pad and adapted to provide a predetermined coefficient of friction between the bottommost sheet in said stack of media and said lift plate, and wherein said opening in said pick pad is configured to utilize the beam strength of said media in both directions to prevent said media from being loaded against said abrasive member; and a controller adapted to rotate said nudger roll a predetermined number of times against said abrasive member once all of the media has been fed from said stack of media and said nudger roll has entered said opening in order to clean contaminants from an outer surface portion of said nudger roll.