Sheet feeding or delivering – Delivering – Multiple discharge
Reexamination Certificate
2011-06-28
2011-06-28
Karmis, Stefanos (Department: 3653)
Sheet feeding or delivering
Delivering
Multiple discharge
C271S302000, C271S225000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07967290
ABSTRACT:
In an image transferring apparatus of the invention, a relay unit, which is provided in a main body frame and includes a conveyance switching mechanism to eject a sheet on which an image is fixed by a fixing section to a sheet ejection section or to switch back the sheet in the middle of ejection, can be pulled out, and a automatic duplex unit to guide the switched back sheet to an image forming section is mounted to the main body frame to be capable of being detached. An intermediate unit to guide the sheet switched back by the relay unit, together with the fixing section, is fixed and placed in the main body frame. The intermediate unit is provided with a guide member to be capable of being opened and closed between a guide position for the switched back sheet and an open position opposite to the guide position. The guide member always receives a spring force toward the open position, and when the automatic duplex unit is mounted to the main body frame, the guide member is moved to the guide position by contact with a pressing body of the automatic duplex unit side, and when the automatic duplex unit is detached from the main body frame, the guide member is opened to the open position by the spring force.
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Shiba Tetsuo
Ushiyama Yousuke
Yasui Kazumasa
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Karmis Stefanos
Patterson & Sheridan LLP
Sanders Howard
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
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