Sheet-material associating – Associating or disassociating – Sheet associating
Reexamination Certificate
2007-11-20
2007-11-20
Crawford, Gene O. (Department: 3651)
Sheet-material associating
Associating or disassociating
Sheet associating
C270S058110, C270S058120, C270S058140, C270S058180, C399S410000, C271S189000, C271S190000, C271S191000, C271S192000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11008290
ABSTRACT:
A sheet post-process apparatus includes a waiting tray and a processing tray. The waiting tray is provided in the middle of a conveying path so that a downward side end in a conveying direction of sheets is oriented upwardly. In the case where a postprocess is required, sheets are made standby. The processing tray has a function which causes the sheets made standby on the waiting sheet to be dropped by self-weight. With this function, the processing tray receives the sheets moved to be dropped and the sheets conveyed from the conveying path without intervening the waiting tray, before carrying out the post-process. In addition, an upstream side end in a conveying direction of the sheets on the waiting tray and a downstream side end in a conveying direction of the sheets on the processing tray are allocated to overlap on each other in the conveying direction of the sheets.
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Iijima Tomomi
Murakami Reiji
Taki Hiroyuki
Terao Yasunobu
Yamamoto Mikio
Crawford Gene O.
Nicholson, III Leslie A
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
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