Patent ID: 7828285

Claim:
A removable input tray to be used in an image forming device, said input tray comprising: a front wall with a sloped surface for sheet separation, said sloped surface extending along a plane; an opening in the front wall formed along the sloped surface; and a retractor rotatably mounted in the opening, said retractor having a front surface for stopping a leading edge of a stack of media sheets and a retractor arm extending from a bottom surface of the retractor, wherein the retractor is movable between a stopping position and a retracted position, the stopping position is triggered when the input tray is removed from the image forming device and provides a stop to the leading edge of a stack of media sheets being inserted into the input tray, and the retracted position is triggered when the input tray is inserted into the image forming device through contact of the retractor arm with a portion of the input tray, wherein the front surface of the retractor extends at an angle with respect to the plane of the sloped surface of the front wall when in the stopping position and is substantially coplanar with the plane of the sloped surface of the front wall when in the retracted position.