Patent ID: 7584952

Claim:
A sheet feeding assembly for feeding a sheet from a stack of media to a feed path, comprising: a frame; a feed roll supported on the frame for rotation about a feed axis; a nudger support element supported on the frame for pivotal movement about the feed axis, the support element including a cam follower, a nudger roll connected to the support element for rotation about a nudger axis parallel to the feed axis; a cam supported on the frame for rotation about a cam axis, the cam being positioned for engagement with the cam follower; and a reversible electric stepper motor that drives the feed roll, the nudger roll and the cam, wherein the motor, feed roll, nudger roll and cam are constructed and arranged whereby when the reversible stepper motor is operated in a forward direction, the motor drives a feed roll and nudger roll in a forward direction, and when the reversible motor is operated in a reverse direction, the motor drives the cam in a cam operating direction.