Patent ID: 8322704

Claim:
A pick device comprising: a pick arm slidably mounted at a first end thereof on a shaft; at least one pick roller mounted to a second end of the pick arm for contacting a top of a stack of sheets of media and driven to pick media sheets one at a time therefrom; a pick arm translation mechanism for moving the pick arm along the shaft such that the at least one pick roller remains substantially evenly positioned about a centerline of a media sheet in a media feed direction; and a bracket member slidably mounted on the shaft and covering at least a portion of the first end of the pick arm such that both the bracket member and the pick arm move together along the shaft, the bracket member operatively coupled to the pick arm translation mechanism and arranged to substantially prevent one or more forces associated with the pick arm translation mechanism from directly acting on the pick arm when the pick arm and the at least one pick roller pick a media sheet from a stack thereof.