Patent ID: 7959148

Claim:
A media buckler assembly, comprising: a media dam; a housing connected to said media dam; said housing having an aperture; a friction buckler disposed between said housing and said media dam, said friction buckler comprising; a body made of a plastic material, said body having upper and lower surfaces of substantially the same lengths and widths and spaced apart from and interconnected to one another by a peripheral edge surface of a predetermined height so as to provide said body with an overall flat configuration of substantially uniform rigidity; and a rib extending from said upper surface of said body through a substantially uniform predetermined height, running generally centrally lengthwise along said body and extending through said aperture in said housing, said rib having media sheet gripping elements defined on a top edge surface of said rib, said rib having a width that is substantially less than said widths of said upper and lower surfaces of said body; said body of said overall flat configuration and uniform rigidity and said rib running along said upper surface and centrally lengthwise along said body providing said media buckler with a substantially uniform rigidity that resists lengthwise and widthwise leaf spring deflection thereof in response to a generally normal force applied to said top edge surface of said rib by a media stack.