An imaging device having a door-actuated feed roll separator mechanism. A pair of opposed panels of a frame of the imaging device are positioned parallel to a media path. A feed roll pair in the media path has a drive roll fixedly and rotatably mounted between the panels and a backup roll mounted to a pair of release assemblies that are slidably mounted to the panels. Biasing members bias the backup roll into contact with the drive roll forming a feed nip. A door pivotally mounted along a bottom end to the frame substantially covers the media path. A pair of tethers connect the pair of release assemblies to the door. With the door lowered, its weight applies a release force to the backup roll separating it from the drive roll to allow for easier removal of a media sheet jammed in the feed nip.

A sheet tray, including a tray body having a bottom plate, and a sheet guide, is provided. The sheet guide includes a guide plate to align sheets at a predetermined position, a lever, a swingable device having a boss and a guide groove, and a stopper pivotably connected with a hinge. The boss guided in the guide groove moves the lever between a first position, wherein the boss is in a first section in the guide groove and the stopper is lowered to an engaged position, with an engageable part being engaged with the bottom plate; and a second position, wherein the boss is in a second section in the guide groove and the stopper is uplifted to a separated position with the engageable part being separated from the bottom plate. When the lever moves from the first position to the second position, the lever tilts by ascending and pivoting.

The present invention relates to an improved apparatus for handling documents, such as currency, for example bank notes. A plunger (5) comprises a body (571) and a base (579) such that when the plunger is deployed to urge documents into a securable container, the plunger moves between a fully retracted position and an intermediate position with the base (579) and body (571) together, and between the intermediate position and a fully advanced position the base (579) is displaced from the body (571).

The present invention relates to an improved apparatus for handling documents, such as currency, for example bank notes. A plunger (5) comprises a body (571) and a base (579) such that when the plunger is deployed to urge documents into a securable container, the plunger moves between a fully retracted position and an intermediate position with the base (579) and body (571) together, and between the intermediate position and a fully advanced position the base (579) is displaced from the body (571).

A sheet feed cassette includes a cassette main body, a sheet loading plate, a regulating member, and an auxiliary member. The sheet loading plate has a support surface and an opening. The support surface supports a sheet sheaf of one or more sheets. The regulating member is slidable within the opening in a sheet width direction perpendicular to a sheet feed direction. The regulating member regulates the sheet sheaf by coming into contact with an edge of the sheaf. The auxiliary member is supported by the sheet loading plate. The auxiliary member is in contact with the regulating member. The auxiliary member is turnable in parallel to the support surface in accompaniment to sliding of the regulating member. The auxiliary member supports a part of the sheet sheaf located over the opening.

A sheet feeding device includes a lifting plate, a pickup roller, a lifting and lowering mechanism of the lifting plate and an end cursor. The end cursor has a cursor main body and a turning cursor plate. The turning cursor plate is coupled to the cursor main body turnably around a turning shaft extending in a width direction orthogonal to the conveying direction and slidably along a lifting and lowering direction of the lifting plate. The turning cursor plate is configured to be turned toward the downstream side in the conveying direction around the turning shaft by being pushed up with the lifting of the lifting plate while the turning shaft is moved upward so that the sheet is shifted toward the downstream side along an upper surface of the lifting plate with respect to the lifting plate.

A paper feed cassette provided with a size detection mechanism that detects the size of paper contained in the paper feed cassette, the size detection mechanism including: a link plate that moves along a paper feed direction with movement of side limitation plates in the width direction; a size detection member that is provided relative to the link plate, that moves with movement of the link plate along the paper feed direction, and that can enter a state in which the size detection member is abutting or not abutting an externally provided size detection sensor in the width direction of the paper; and a biasing member that provides the link plate with a biasing force in a direction of the movement of the link plate.