Sheet-material associating – Associating or disassociating – Signature associating
Patent
1991-03-07
1992-07-28
Look, Edward K.
Sheet-material associating
Associating or disassociating
Signature associating
270 58, B42B 102
Patent
active
051335395
ABSTRACT:
A sorter-finisher wherein sheets discharged from an image forming apparatus are distributed among a plurality of bins in a sorter unit, and thereafter the sheets are taken out of each bin and transported to a finisher unit to be finished. The bins are put one upon another, and they are movable up and down. A take-out unit for taking sheets out of each bin in order to transport the sheets to the finisher unit is installed above the bins positioned for the distributing operation. Each bin is moved up to the position facing the take-out unit and further is laterally moved toward the take-out unit, and the sheets in the bin are taken out thereof nipped by a pair of rollers. Further, the sorter-finisher comprises a transporting unit which is a route from the discharge portion of the image forming apparatus to a receiving/take-out portion of the sorter unit, and sheets are transported to the bins and also transported to the finisher unit through the transporting unit.
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Ishiguro Kuniaki
Ishikawa Takuma
Matsui Toshio
Look Edward K.
Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
Newholm Therese M.
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