Patent ID: 8474812

Claim:
A media picking device in an imaging apparatus comprising: a shaft for receiving torque from the imaging apparatus; a pick arm rotatably and slidably mounted at a first end thereof on the shaft, the pick arm rotatable about the shaft between a first and a second position; at least one pick roller mounted at a second end of the pick arm and, when the pick arm is in the first position, the at least one pick roller contacts a topmost media sheet of a stack of media sheets and is drivable by the shaft to pick the topmost media sheet therefrom; and a translating member coupled with a portion of the first end of the pick arm and slidably and rotatably movable and separately mounted on the shaft from the pick arm, the translating member rotatable about the shaft between the first position and the second position; wherein the translating member, when rotated to the second position, moves the pick arm and the at least one pick roller from contact with the topmost media sheet and the translating member and pick arm are manually movable along the shaft transverse to a media feed direction between a plurality of predetermined positions corresponding to a plurality of centerlines of media sheets of different widths and, when located at a selected one of the plurality of predetermined positions and being rotated to the first position, the translating member and pick arm are held at the selected one of the plurality of predetermined positions such that the at least one pick roller is returned to contact with a top most media sheet corresponding to the selected one of the plurality of predetermined positions sheet and is substantially evenly positioned about a corresponding centerline of the media sheet corresponding to the selected one of the plurality of predetermined positions.