Document storage and transport apparatus

Details Document storage and transport apparatus Document storage and transport apparatus

1979-07-02

1986-11-11

Braun, Fred L.

Photocopying

Including fiber optics

271 3, 271 9, 271 65, 271195, 271276, 271902, 355 24, B65H 522, G03G 2100

Patent

active

RE0322849

ABSTRACT:
A system for presenting documents to a slit-scan xerographic exposure station includes a fluidic storage station having a housing in which a rack for storing documents is located. The rack includes a plurality of pockets in each of which a document may be stored, the rack being movable in a vertical direction so that any one of its pockets may be aligned with an opening in the housing. A fluid stream is used to move a document in a pocket aligned with the opening out of the storage apparatus and into engagement with transport apparatus. The transport apparatus includes a vacuum document drum which moves a document past the exposure station and, in one mode of operation, inverts the document prior to its return to a pocket at the station. In another mode of operation, the direction of travel of the drum is reversed after the document has been exposed and the document is returned without inversion. Another fluid stream is used to assist the return of an exposed document through the opening and into a pocket of the rack.

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