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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4548402 | Paper sorting apparatus for a copier A sheet sorter apparatus is disclosed as having a basic sorter unit comprising a horizontal transport, a vertical transport, and a plurality of sorter bins wherein the vertical transport has a pair of bin indexing guide elements, one of which is arranged ... | 10/22/1985 |
| 4544148 | Automatic original conveying device This specification discloses an automatic original conveying device for conveying a supported original to a reading position and discharging the original from the reading position after the surface to be read of the original is read. More particularly, th... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4456237 | Plural mode recirculating document handler A recirculating document handling apparatus and method for plurally recirculating original document sheets to and from a stack thereof and to and from the imaging station of a copier for providing precollation copying, providing selected ones of different... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4456236 | Plural mode recirculating document handler A recirculating document handling apparatus and method for plurally recirculating duplex original document sheets to and from a stack thereof and to and from the imaging station of a copier for providing duplex document precollation copying, providing sel... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4365794 | Toggle arm inverter A copier capable of producing simplex and duplex copies includes an inverter that has constantly rotating input and output rollers mounted for pivotal movement into and out of engagement with a reversibly rotatable sleeve that is mounted on a stationary s... | 12/28/1982 |
| 4333641 | Duplex printing/paper handling apparatus for cut sheet printing A modular assembly for selectably changing or diverting sheet items from an input pathway into a selected one of a number of output pathways. Three irregularly shaped one-way gate members, actuated by the passage of the item, act to prevent return movemen... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4318542 | Sorter mechanism A sorter mechanism for receiving and stacking discrete sheets in a preselected order. A plurality of bins are provided for receiving discrete sheets delivered to the bins with a given side facing in a particular orientation. The bins, each of which have o... | 03/09/1982 |
| 4285508 | Collator A collator being adapted to receive and carry copy sheets from a copying machine and distribute the copy sheets to a plurality of bins arranged in series for storing the copy sheets. The collator is provided with a copy sheet feeding table and a copy shee... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4273326 | Collator A rear entry collator which includes one or more sheet receiver bins in which sheets may be assembled in a non-inverted surface orientation with respect to the surface orientation thereof when accepted at infeed. Return sheet feed to a copier may be provi... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4228995 | Sorting device Device for the assorted collection of sheets, comprising a transport track and bins situated along this track. The bins are provided with guide organs and each bin can be moved so that its guide organ protrudes into the track so as to guide a sheet into a... | 10/21/1980 |
| 4229100 | Automatic copy recovery A copy production machine is capable of having copies from plural independent copy runs in a copy sheet transport path at a given instant. Such independent runs are combined to produce duplex (double-sided) copies. Recovery from jams in such duplex operat... | 10/21/1980 |
| 4200386 | Copier/collator with extended collate functions The invention concerns a method and apparatus for operating a copier/collator installation. By disabling the copier portion insofar as copy production is involved, the copier/collator installation can be used as an offline collator. This extended function... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4192607 | Apparatus for selectively copying documents from two different document feeders Documents are fed to a platen of a copier from two different feeding apparatus, one of which is a recirculating feeder adapted to sequentially feed a plurality of document sheets from one document to the platen for copying each sheet in a known manner. Ty... | 03/11/1980 |
| 4190247 | Sheet receiving apparatus A sheet receiving apparatus for a reproducing machine includes at least one sheet receiving bin. The receiving bin includes first and second sheet supporting bin side wall members for supporting sheets therein which are pivotally mounted for their upper e... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4147426 | Electrostatic photographic copying machine An electrostatic photographic copying machine includes a photosensitive body having a photosensitive layer on its surface, a charging apparatus, a developing device and a transfer device arranged along a moving passage of the photosensitive body. An optic... | 04/03/1979 |
| 4133522 | Pivoting tray sorting apparatus Sorting apparatus in which tray assemblies in a vertical array are opened to facilitate feeding in sheets carried on a transport past the tray assemblies. The tray assemblies are hinged at one end to pivot when engaged by gear mechanism carried on a recip... | 01/09/1979 |
