Switchback mechanism and image forming apparatus

Details Switchback mechanism and image forming apparatus Switchback mechanism and image forming apparatus

2011-02-07

2011-12-06

Karmis, Stefanos (Department: 3653)

Sheet feeding or delivering

Delivering

Multiple discharge

C271S225000, C271S303000, C271S186000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08070159

ABSTRACT:
In a color printer in which a drive force of a fixed gear that rotates not in both a forward direction and a reverse direction but in either one direction only is transmitted to a discharging unit, a swing gear is attached to a branch guide via a switching link and a transmission link as a link mechanism. When a solenoid mechanism starts driving, the transmission link rotates. In accordance with the rotation of the transmission link, the switching link rotates, so that a switching among a discharge conveying path, a duplex-printing conveying path, and a switchback conveying path by the branch guide and a switching of a rotating direction of a transmission gear can be simultaneously performed.

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English language Abstract of Japanese Patent Publication JP 2003-182907 dated Jul. 3, 2003.

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