Image forming apparatus provided with a tab sheet inserting func

Details Image forming apparatus provided with a tab sheet inserting func Image forming apparatus provided with a tab sheet inserting func

1996-03-04

1997-08-05

Ramirez, Nestor

Electrophotography

Document handling

Copy

G03G 2100

Patent

active

056552076

ABSTRACT:
An image forming apparatus capable of inserting tab sheets between copied sheets is provided with a cassette for containing tab sheets is such a state that tabs of the tab sheets project backward with respect to a feed direction, a sheet inverting assembly provided downstream from the imaging assembly for discharging the sheet to the discharging portion after reversing its transport direction, an inserting position setting device for setting an inserting position of the tab sheet in a plurality of copy sheets to be stackingly discharged, a feed controller for feeding a tab sheet from the cassette during a processing in the inserting position, an image formation prohibiting device for prohibiting an image formation during the processing in the inserting position, and a transport controller for, when the fed sheet is a tab sheet, transporting the tab sheet to the sheet inverting assembly. When tab sheets are to be inserted in specified inserting positions while a plurality of documents are copied, the tab sheets are fed in such a manner that their tabs project backward with respect to their feed direction and has their transport direction reversed before being discharged so that their tabs project forward.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4561772 (1985-12-01), Smith
patent: 5257081 (1993-10-01), Kato et al.
patent: 5559595 (1996-09-01), Farrell

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