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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7418234 | Image forming apparatus A discharge unit is disposed downstream of a principal transport path of a compound machine, and a shifter function is provided in this discharge unit. By shifting the paper passage position relative to a photosensitive drum when printing the front side and the pape... | 08/26/2008 |
| 6905449 | Bundled sheets processing apparatus and bundled sheets processing method A bundled sheet processing apparatus has a chute unit tilting between the first and second positions. A downstream side in the chute unit conveying direction, there is provided a stopper that has the contact surface narrower than the thickness of a bundle and stops ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6900902 | Image determining apparatus capable of properly determining image and image forming apparatus utilizing the same A copying machine performs a panel operation necessary for copying at a step S601 and performs ACS determination for determining whether an original image is a color image, a monochrome image or an indefinite image at a step S603. Then, the copying mac... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6474640 | Method and apparatus for stacking sheets in offset relationship A method and apparatus forms stacks of paper sheets. Each stack is offset from adjacent stacks. The method and apparatus prevent the top sheet of a first stack of paper from being frictionally dragged out of position when the initial sheet of paper in a s... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6179495 | Photosensitive material discharging apparatus A photosensitive material discharging apparatus includes a discharge roller pair 41, 43 disposed in an outlet for discharging for a photosensitive material, and a plurality of transport roller pairs 70a, 70b arranged on a transport path upstream of the di... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6158735 | Apparatus and method for splitting a stream of signatures into a first and second substream of signatures A stream of signatures is delivered by a conveyer belt to an angled conveyer. The angled conveyor grips a set of signatures from the stream. The gripped set of signatures is transported by the angled conveyer to a third conveyer belt, and deposited on the... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6102393 | Sheet discharge processing device A sheet conveyed into a sheet discharge processing device is conveyed through a straight convey path by first convey rollers and then is discharged onto a first discharge tray by second convey rollers and first discharge rollers. Second discharge rollers ... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6056288 | Self adjusting controlled acceleration sheet stacking offsetting system A sheet stacking offsetting system with a stacking tray offsetting movement system with which printed sheets from a reproduction apparatus are stacked offset relative to one another, with a simple rotary drive of an eccentrically rotated extending pin cam... | 05/02/2000 |
| 5724626 | Photosensitive material transporting apparatus A photosensitive material transporting apparatus includes a transport passage for transporting a plurality of developed photosensitive materials in parallel with each other with a phase difference therebetween in a transporting direction thereof, a photos... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5485989 | Diverter and on-edge stacker A diverter and on-edge stacker for diverting and on-edge stacking of envelopes comprises: an envelope conveying path; a device for selectively diverting a conveyed envelope by intercepting a lateral portion of the leading envelope edge and thereby skewing... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5433430 | Device including a first and an adjustable second conveying member for conveying and separating folding printer products A first conveying member (11) has a gap (11) which is engaged by the front end of a second conveying member. This second conveying member conveys obliquely in respect to the first conveying member and has a lower and an upper draw-off belt (14). The front... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5434661 | Sheet post-processing apparatus including offset means for selectively offsetting sheets discharged in one of plural bins relative to sheets discharged in the other of said plural bins A sheet post-processing apparatus includes plural bins positioned at predetermined intervals for accommodating discharge sheets, and a sheet discharger for discharging the sheets into the bins. An offset device is provided for selectively offsetting the s... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5430520 | Method and apparatus for developing photosensitive material The exposed photosensitive materials are staggered into two lines, while being fed to the developing unit, for higher efficiency in development. The carrier unit B has a staggering unit and a parallel carrier path having a pair of parallel paths. The stag... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5184185 | Method for duplex printing scheduling system combining finisher interset skipped pitches with duplex sheet scheduling Gaps which naturally exist in the output of printed copy sheets from a duplex paper path due to duplex printing are selectively combined with interset interval skipped pitches so as to provide an appropriate interset interval between each set of printed c... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5119954 | Multi-pass sorting machine A mail document sorting device includes a document input feeder, and at least one singulation device for orienting and singulating the documents so that indicia on their faces can be disposed at a predetermined level about a data reference plane. Single d... | 06/09/1992 |
| 5112041 | Process and apparatus for transporting printing products arriving in imbricated formation A belt conveyor (10) leads past two branch-off points (12,12') arranged behind one another, viewed in a conveying direction (F). Removal conveyors (14, 14'), whose conveying-away direction (W) runs at an angle to the conveying direction (F), lead away fro... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5088721 | Transporting device and sorter with the same A transporting device for articles to be transported and a sorter with the same. The transporting device includes transporting rollers arranged in a transportation passage so as to contact the articles to be transported for transportation in a forward dir... | 02/18/1992 |
| 4941650 | Vacuum counter for stacked signatures An apparatus for forming an indicium in a stream of moving signatures, consisting of a signature displaced laterally from the stream and corresponding to a predetermined count of signatures, comprises an idler roller mechanism connected with a rotatable i... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4833989 | Axially shiftable sheet gripper assembly An axially shiftable sheet gripper assembly includes cooperating gripper fingers and gripper abutment surfaces mounted on an axially slidable carriage. The carriage is located in a groove in a sheet transfer drum and carries a control roller at one end. T... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4774545 | Cut paper electrophotographic printers with continuous paper feed mechanisms Cut paper electrophotographic printers with continuous paper feed mechanisms including a pickup roll, a photosensitive drum, a charging unit, an optical unit, a host controller, a developing unit, a transfer unit and fixing rolls. Further included are fir... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4735408 | Recording apparatus A recording apparatus records an image impression of an original on a sheet. The recording apparatus comprises a flip lever arranged to oppose a distal end of a first convey path for conveying the sheet recorded by a recording mechanism. The flip lever is... | 04/05/1988 |
| 4718657 | Paper stacker The invention provides a sheet stacker for receiving paper from a printer, copier and the like. The stacker includes a base, and an elevator mechanism contained in the base. A hopper sits on the base and includes a floor moveable within the hopper and sup... | 01/12/1988 |
| 4712786 | Copy sheet offsetting device A printing apparatus including a sorter and an offsetting device. The offsetting device is positioned within the printer and is adapted to translate sheets in route to the sorter alternately front and rearward such that copy sheets are offset before they ... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4681312 | Sheet stacker A sheet stacker, e.g. for a photocopier, providing accurate trail edge registration includes co-acting driven output rollers associated with a sheet guide for directing sheets in an upwardly inclined direction. An output tray for receiving sheets exiting ... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4669717 | Recording apparatus A recording apparatus records an image impression of an original on a sheet. The recording apparatus comprises a flip lever arranged to oppose a distal end of a first convey path for conveying the sheet recorded by a recording mechanism. The flip lever is... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4004798 | Photocopying machine sheet separation device A sheet separation device has a copy sheet guide which directs a sheet of copy paper to means for forwarding copy paper to requisite stages subsequent to an exposure stage. The copy sheet guide is engageable by a stop which is disengaged by the leading ed... | 01/25/1977 |
| 3955812 | Flat-article separating apparatus for an automatic mail handling system and the like A flat article separating apparatus for separating overlapping articles traveling along a feeding belt is disclosed. The apparatus includes a slipping section for causing overlapping articles to slip with respect to each other. Thereafter, the articles pa... | 05/11/1976 |
