Oki OKIPAGE18 Maintenance Manual page 30

(b) Hopping from the Front Feeder
1 Hopping
2 Aligning
3 During the paper fed from the Front Feeder Plate, the one way clutch of 1st Hopping
4 Feeding
5 Start printing. after the paper turns off the Write Sensor.
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The Front Feeder Plate is normally locked at the lower position by the Release Lever
and turn the Micro SW on. Top of the FF Cam which attached on end of the Front
Hopping Shaft is normally located Upper position (0 to 30 degree : home position).
Rotating the Hopping Motor in direction b (CCW) drives the Front Hopping Shaft and
then attached the FF Cam and the Front Hopping Roller are driven. During the FF
Cam rotated approx. 60 degree, the Release Lever was pushed and the Front
Feeder Plate lifts up, then the Front Hopping Roller picks up a sheet of paper. At the
FF Cam rotated approx. 180 degree, the Front Feeder Plate is pushed down and
locked by the Release Lever again. At the FF Cam rotated approx. 275 degree the
paper fed until the Inlet Sensor turns off.
After turning on the Inlet Sensor, the paper fed by a predetermined length and
choked up to the wedge space formed by the Regist Roller and the Pressure Roller
so that to align the skew of paper.
Roller is idled and not to drive the 1st Hopping Roller and the Sub Roller.
After aligned the paper, the Hopping Motor turned off and stop hopping. Then Clutch
(Regist) turned on and the Regist Roller start to feed the paper. After the paper fed,
the Front Hopping Roller drives the Front Hopping Shaft and attached the FF Cam
with small idle torque of build in one way clutch and when comes into the Release
Lever, the one way clutch is slipped and the FF Cam is stopped at the upper position
(home position). The Front Hopping Roller continuously idled up to the paper away.
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