Claims
- 1. A paper feeding device comprising:
- a paper feeding roller means,
- a delivery roller means, and
- a registration roller,
- said paper feeding roller means feeding at least two sheets in parallel from a paper stock section to said delivery roller means, said delivery roller means delivering a plurality of paper sheets fed by said paper feeding roller to said registration roller,
- said delivery roller means having a rotatable and driveable axis of rotation and a plurality of delivery roller portions located side by side on said axis of rotation for respectively feeding paper sheets side by side, to said registration roller,
- each of said delivery roller portions including a torque limiter mechanism which idles if a load of not less than a predetermined torque is applied thereto when a leading edge of a paper sheet in a row corresponding to one of said feeding roller portions abuts respective portions of said registration roller and the sheet is deflected by said registration roller,
- said delivery roller means further including a forward roller for conveying said sheets toward said registration roller and a reverse roller for conveying an underlying sheet toward said paper stock section, wherein said torque limiter mechanism is provided on said forward roller.
Priority Claims (1)
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Parent Case Info
This application is a division of U.S. application Ser. No. 07/943,471, filed on Sep. 11, 1992, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,292,115.
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