PAPER DUST REMOVAL DEVICE

摘要

A method and apparatus for removing excess paper dust from paper fed from a high capacity feeder module that includes blades positioned after an exit of the high capacity feeder module that are configured to physically remove paper dust from sheets generated during feeding of the sheets by a fully active retard feeder from the high capacity feeder module.

主权项

1. A method for removing dust from paper fed from a paper feeding apparatus within a printer, including:
providing a paper feeder module that includes at least one paper tray with paper therein and a feed head and an exit portion of said paper feeder module for guiding paper exiting said paper feeder module; providing flexible members such that paper exiting said at least one paper tray are simultaneously contacted by said flexible members; initiating feeding of paper from said at least one paper tray into a predetermined paper path for a print job; and scraping upper and lower surfaces of each paper sheet fed from said at least one paper tray with said flexible members to remove dust therefrom.