| 摘要 |
<p>A box-like tray 25 holds a stack 27 of more than 1,000 sheets of paper and is positioned so that extension (28) is received in the paper-receiving slot 22 of a photocopy machine 20. Independently driven sheet-separator 29 rides on top of the stack 27 and feeds the top sheet to an independent feed- drive mechanism 30 which advances the sheet onto a teetering paper-receiving tray 31, the discharge end of which is positioned within the machine 20 beneath the copier sheet-take-away roller 23. A cam mechanism causes the discharge end of the tray 31 to press the leading edge of the sheet against the take-away roller 23, and, when the copier 20 is actuated and the sheet is drawn into the copier 20, a sensing finger 67 located on the tray 31 detects the passage of the sheet and actuates the drive motors 44, 54 for the sheet separator 29 and the feed rollers 47, 48 to advance the next top sheet of the stack onto the tray 31 as before. <IMAGE></p> |
