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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5100119 | Paper handling apparatus A paper handing apparatus having a plurality of bins, a chuck unit and a stapler unit movable up and down along the bins, and a sorting unit. The sorting unit distributes a number of paper sheets received from a copier or similar image forming apparatus t... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5099292 | Finisher for an image forming apparatus A finisher for use with a copier, laser printer or similar image forming apparatus and having a function of sorting or stacking sheets sequentially driven out of the apparatus and a function of stapling each stack of such sheets. A plurality of bins are s... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5088710 | Sorter A sorter with a plurality of receptacles arranged vertically movably and being capable of receiving articles to be treated. A drawing mechanism sequentially draws out one of the receptacles to a predetermined treatment position by shifting the receptacles... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5024430 | Paper handling apparatus A paper handling apparatus having a plurality of bins and a chuck unit and a stapler which are movable along the bins and causing the stapler to bind an end portion of a stack of paper sheets which have been received from a copier or similar image forming... | 06/18/1991 |
| 4986520 | Control method for sorter with stapler A method of controlling a sheet sorter wherein the sheet sorter includes a plurality of bins for accommodating sheets, the bins being arranged in a vertical direction, a first sheet discharging device for discharging sheets not to be sorted, second sheet ... | 01/22/1991 |
| 4971302 | Sheet stapling apparatus A stapling apparatus used with a sheet sorter having a plurality of bins comprises a stapler-head which is moved along one side edge of the bins toward one of predetermined positions at which the stapler-head confronts the one side edge of the bins. A she... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4965629 | Sheet finisher with a binder A sheet finisher with a binder includes sheet stacker for stacking sheets discharged after images are formed thereon, a binder for binding the sheets stacked on the sheet stacker, a counter for counting a number of sheets accommodated in the sheet stacker... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4928941 | Sheet sorter with stapler A sheet sorting apparatus with a stapler, includes a plurality of bin trays, bin tray shifting device for moving the plurality of the bin trays stepwisely substantially in the vertical direction to oppose the respective bin trays to a sheet inlet of the s... | 05/29/1990 |
| 4925171 | Sorter/stapler with horizontal bin opening In a sorter for sorting sheets fed from a sequential source of sheets, with a closely vertically spaced array of sorter bins, and apparatus to vertically move the array of sorter bins relative to the source of sheets for sequentially loading individual sh... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4901994 | Copying apparatus having a sorter with a sheet stapling function In a copying apparatus having a sorter with a sheet stapling function; the sorter has a plurality of bins capable of independently moving up or down, wherein sheets are sorted into the bins sequentially from the top bin to the bottom bin; the bins are mov... | 02/20/1990 |
| 4893152 | Copying apparatus having a sorter with a sheet binding function A copying apparatus includes a sorter which has a plurality of bins, a binding unit for binding the sheets taken-out from each of the bins, a first path for transporting the sheets ejected from a copying machine to the sorter, a second path for transporti... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4864350 | Copying apparatus having a sorting unit and a binding unit and controls therefor A copying apparatus having an image forming unit, a sorting unit capable of distributing sheets carrying the images formed thereon and a binding unit for binding the distributed sheets are provided. The sorting unit is set to a sorting mode when a binding... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4782363 | Copying system for on-line finishing Providing plural precollated sets of copies by plurally recirculating a set of documents and normally making two consecutive identical copies per document per circulation, at one-half the copying rate of the copier, feeding these pairs of identical copy s... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4762312 | Sorter with a function of binding copy sheets A sorter for use with a copier and others and having a function of binding a stack of copy sheets. The sorter includes a single stapler which is shared by all bins of the sorter, and a single bin drive unit adapted to move any of the bins loaded with copy... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4566782 | Very high speed duplicator with finishing function using dual copy set transports A document handling apparatus/copy sheet processor/finishing apparatus arranged as an integrated system to produce bound copy sheets at high speed but with minimum mechanical activity by double exposing each document sheet, producing successive copy sheet... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4564185 | Copying apparatus with finisher having stapler and adhesive binder stations A copying machine/finisher system is disclosed as having a rotary sorter arranged to receive a stream of copy sheets produced by a processor in conjunction with an automatic document handling apparatus of the type which produces multiple copies of a docum... | 01/14/1986 |
| 4558942 | Very high speed duplicator with finishing function for duplex copying doing immediate inversion of copy sheets A document handling apparatus/copy sheet processor/finishing apparatus arranged as an integrated system to produce bound copy sheets at high speed but with minimum mechanical activity by double exposing one or both sides of a document sheet, producing sid... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4549804 | High speed duplicator with sorter/stapling apparatus and copy set supporting system A copier/finishing system is disclosed as having one or more copy sheet compiling bins whereat copy sheets are collated into copy sets preparatory to a binding operation. In order to support copy sets being moved from one or more bins to a binding station... | 10/29/1985 |
| 4499834 | Reject assembly for sheet material handling apparatus An apparatus for sequentially stitching groups of sheets includes a reject assembly which directs groups of sheets containing either more or less than a predetermined number of sheets to a receiving station without being stitched. If a desired number of s... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4473219 | Gatherer with binding mechanism for papers discharged from a bin drum A gatherer comprises a generally cylindrical bin drum having circumferentially thereon a plurality of inclined shelves spaced apart each other for receiving papers. The gatherer further comprises a paper-size changing body and a switching means for the ch... | 09/25/1984 |
| 4444491 | Very high speed duplicator with finishing function A very high speed, fully automated reproduction system is disclosed having a document handling apparatus, copy sheet processor, and a finishing station. For very high reproduction rates, post-collation of copy sheets into copy sets is utilized. In this ar... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4361393 | Very high speed duplicator with finishing function A collation/finishing system is disclosed for use with a very high speed, fully automated reproduction machine having a document handling apparatus, copy sheet processor, and a finishing station. In this arrangement, a sorter bin array is arranged to rece... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4281920 | Stapler arrangement for a copier/finisher A stapler device is disclosed for a finishing station in a copying or duplicating machine which is arranged to produce automatically a predetermined number of copy sheet sets in accordance with a collated document stack. The copy sheets are compiled into ... | 08/04/1981 |
| 4116750 | Sheet binding apparatus The sheet binding apparatus is comprised of a movable binder assembly including an endless belt and an elongated heat application platen underlying one belt run. The belt is coated with a hot-melt adhesive, which, when heated by the platen, is applied by ... | 09/26/1978 |
| 4083550 | Multiple copy sorting apparatus A multiple copy sorting apparatus is disclosed for use in combination with a copying machine employed in making copies, said sorting apparatus comprising a plurality of trays which may be moved to receive a plurality of individual copies from the discharg... | 04/11/1978 |
| 3995748 | Sorter apparatus A multi-bin sorter comprised of at least two bin arrays supported upon a rotatable turntable adapted to bring individual bins selectively into operative disposition with an inlet or discharge station, or both. Each bin array is comprised of a series of ve... | 12/07/1976 |
