Sheet feeding or delivering – Delivering – With transfer means between conveyor and receiver
Patent
1998-03-18
2000-08-29
Ellis, Christopher P.
Sheet feeding or delivering
Delivering
With transfer means between conveyor and receiver
271187, 271270, 271277, 271 82, 271315, B65H 2906
Patent
active
061096059
ABSTRACT:
In an sheet finishing apparatus for receiving a sheet on which an image has been formed by an image forming apparatus, and for ejecting the sheet after a front side thereof is reversed, the sheet finishing apparatus includes: a sheet conveyor for conveying the sheet fed from the image forming apparatus downstream; a sheet reversing device for receiving the sheet conveyed by the sheet conveyor, and for reversing the front side of the sheet by rotation; a sheet holder provided on a peripheral portion of the sheet reversing device for holding a leading edge portion of the sheet conveyed by the sheet conveyor, the sheet holder capable of being opened or closed; a sheet stopper for blocking the leading edge portion of the sheet to be stopped at a position where the front side of the sheet is reversed by a rotation of the sheet reversing device; and a sheet stacking member for stacking the sheet separated from the sheet reversing device by a further rotation of the reversing device after the leading edge of the sheet is blocked by the sheet stopper.
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Endo Satoru
Hirota Kazuhiro
Hosoya Hisao
Kanazawa Yuji
Kawano Masanobu
Deuble Mark A.
Ellis Christopher P.
Konica Corporation
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