Sheet feeding or delivering – Delivering – Multiple discharge
Patent
1994-03-31
1995-07-11
Bollinger, David H.
Sheet feeding or delivering
Delivering
Multiple discharge
271294, B65H 3911
Patent
active
054313902
ABSTRACT:
A sheet sorting and storing apparatus has a stack of bin trays which are brought open at a sheet reception position, but held close at the other position. The apparatus minimizes noises upon sheet reception in a simple mechanism, improving the efficiency of sheet sorting. The bin trays are inclined down or up depending on a position of a sheet discharge device. A desired bin tray is deviated by a deviation mechanism in an approximately horizontal direction so that a spacing in the direction of the tray inclination is enlarged between two adjacent bin trays located at the sheet reception position, while keeping constant a vertical spacing thereof. The deviation mechanism includes a guide in connection with the bin trays to approximately horizontally deviate them by its slant portion connecting upper and lower vertical slots. Each bin tray has a support on its both sides with parallel surfaces to support the next upper bin tray through rollers disposed between the parallel surfaces of the adjacent bin trays.
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Fujii Takashi
Hirose Akira
Bollinger David H.
Ricoh & Company, Ltd.
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