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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8123223 | Document printer and inserter An inserter device for a document printer and inserter system includes a first container sensor. A belt mechanism includes a flexible delivery belt receiving a printed document from a document printer. A motor rotates the delivery belt in response to an actuation si... | 02/28/2012 |
| 7850170 | Stacker device A first tray is adapted to stack a paper discharged from a discharge port thereon. A lifter is operable to raise or lower the first tray. A detector is operable to detect a stacked state of the paper and the first tray. In a case where the paper is discharged onto t... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7422118 | Equipment for the automatic deposit of banknotes An equipment (22) for the automatic deposit of banknotes (23) comprising a transaction port (33) for receiving a stack (24) of banknotes, a separating device (36) for separating the constituting sheets of the stack (24), a v... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7377511 | Sheet stacking apparatus A sheet stacking apparatus including a first tray on which sheets discharged form an outlet are stacked, the first tray being movable between a stacking position at which sheets discharged from an outlet are stacked and a first retracted position above the staking p... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7331573 | Sheet treating apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet treating apparatus for treating a sheet having an image formed thereon is provided, which includes a pair of transport rollers for transporting the sheet upward, a sheet post-treating portion having an intermediate treatment tray, provided to execute post-tr... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7233751 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus comprising a main body having a copy function of printing an image read from a document on a paper sheet, a printer function of printing an externally input image on a paper sheet, and a paper ejection port to eject a printed paper sheet. ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7152857 | Paper feed and output assembly, and image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus, which has sophisticated functions of feeding recording paper of various sizes selectively and of sorting printed paper, is reduced in size. The feed bin sorters, the output bin sorters, and the output tray are arranged in tiers. Pre-print... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7131646 | Media accessibility in a media processing device A system and method for improved accessibility of media output from a media processing device. Media receivers are coupled to an actuator such that the media receivers can be moved under manual command by a user, or automatically by a controller. Movement selectors ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7093992 | Versatile collator and system incorporating same An efficient collator. The collator includes a first mechanism for selectively separating physical output from a device. A second mechanism is coupled to the first mechanism and facilitates angling and/or rotating the first mechanism based on the physical output. In... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7031000 | System and method for controlling a printing device capable of enabling specific user to occupy specific cassette or specific sheet output position under certain condition during the process of driving printing device connected to plurality of user computers through network A system for controlling a printing device, capable of letting a specific user temporarily occupy a specific cassette or a specific sheet output position under certain conditions during the process of driving a printing device connected to a plurality of user comput... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6988728 | Sheet sorter and an image forming apparatus A sheet sorter including a plurality of trays on which sheets are to be placed, adapted to sort sheets by switching the trays on which the sheets are to be placed, and designed to enable users to easily find their own sheets even if no tray is designated. Trays are ... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6986511 | Finisher for an image forming apparatus A finisher for finishing papers sequentially driven out of an image forming apparatus includes a plurality of trays selectively movable to a single paper outlet. The finisher reduces a period of time necessary for designated one of the trays to reach the paper outle... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6902161 | Sheet feeder avoiding sheet sag An entrance guide for externally fed sheet (4) to printer (1) is configured to bow the sheets. In one embodiment guides (5a, 5aa) within slot 7 have upper and lower configurations which force sheet into a bow. In one ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6764073 | Adjustable gripping device for adjustable sheet-receiving pockets and method for adjusting sheet-receiving pockets An adjustable gripper system for releasably holding at least one sheet against a surface includes an adjustment body, a gripper connected thereto for holding the sheet against the surface, and a cam follower to be actuated by a cam. The cam follower is connected to ... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6695306 | Sheet material conveying apparatus with height-adjustable pockets A sheet material conveying apparatus includes a plurality of pockets running along a track, each pocket including a setting device for adjusting a height of the pocket so as to define a set height. At least one setting actuator located to a side of the po... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6641135 | Device for storing and issuing sheet-like material, in particular, bank notes, and a guide unit and a transport unit for said device The invention relates to an apparatus for the storage and/or dispensing of sheet-like material, in particular bank notes 23, comprising a compartment module (10) having a plurality of compartments (11), a slider (6) which can be travelled into and out of ... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6631896 | Finisher for an image forming apparatus A finisher for finishing papers sequentially driven out of an image forming apparatus includes a plurality of trays selectively movable to a single paper outlet. The finisher reduces a period of time necessary for designated one of the trays to reach the ... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6568675 | Sheet media output device A multiple bin output device for use with an image forming device. The output device comprises a plurality of removable bins configured to receive sheets output by the image forming device. The output device can either move a selected bin into position to... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6567722 | Device for storing and issuing banknotes The invention relates to an apparatus for storage and dispensing of bank notes, preferably having a device connected in series to verify genuineness of bank notes inserted. To provide the apparatus which is characterized by a simple and therefore economic... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6547501 | Device and method for binding printed products A device for preparing a book spine includes a plurality of movable pockets, each pocket having an angled back, a packer and a spine stop at a lower end of the pocket for receiving the spine. The spine stop has a first collect position, a second position ... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6422557 | Image forming apparatus having a plurality of sheet stacking means An image forming apparatus includes discharging bins in which image-formed sheets are stacked, and uses a bin elevating motor to switch discharging of sheets into a selected discharging bin. The image forming apparatus is provided with a sensor for detect... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6390469 | Sheet material conveying apparatus with height-adjustable pockets A sheet material conveying apparatus includes a plurality of pockets, each pocket including a setting device for adjusting a height of the pocket when the pocket is stationary so as to define a set height, the setting device including a setting rod, a rin... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6336630 | Printing apparatus for the selective deposition of printed sheets on supports which are adjustable as to height A printing apparatus provided with a deposition unit for printed sheets comprising a number of copy trays situated one above the other, which trays are adjustable in height independent of one another to a deposition position with respect to the sheet deli... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6328299 | Moving shelf set finishing mailbox A moving shelf set finishing mailbox has a plurality of trays vertically movable by rotatable cams to opposite sides of a sheet inlet location from which sheets are supplied serially from a copier or printer, the sheets being supported at their trailing e... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6322070 | Finisher for an image forming apparatus A finisher for finishing papers sequentially driven out of an image forming apparatus includes a plurality of trays selectively movable to a single paper outlet. The finisher reduces a period of time necessary for designated one of the trays to reach the ... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6234474 | Paper accumulating device A paper accumulating device (20) according to the present invention comprises a paper bundle feeding port (31), a plurality of paper bundle receiving portions (33, 34) including paper bundle receivers (21, 22) for accumulating paper bundles respectively, ... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6231045 | Finisher for an image forming apparatus A finisher for finishing papers sequentially driven out of an image forming apparatus includes a plurality of trays selectively movable to a single paper outlet. The finisher reduces a period of time necessary for designated one of the trays to reach the ... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6227539 | Printer mailboxing system with automatic variable capacity bins In a mailboxing system in which the different numbers and types of printed sheets being printed by the different users of a shared users printer are separately stored in different assigned mailbox bins in an array of mailbox bins, there is provided a syst... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6213457 | Apparatus and method for feeding sheet material magazines An apparatus for feeding flat products from a pile of flat products to a receiving location especially on a conveyor includes a plurality of delivering units for extracting a single flat product from the pile. Each of the delivering units has a first driv... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6170821 | Sheet sorting device An automatically sheet sorting device has multistage trays for storing sheets fed from a copying machine or the like, which each incorporate a sheet detecting mechanism including a sheet-empty detection lever of sheet-empty detecting means for detecting t... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6146085 | Sheet accumulation processing device There is disclosed a sheet accumulation processing device in which sheets with images formed thereon are processed as a bunch before the sheet bunch is efficiently sorted and discharged to any one of plural discharge trays. The device comprises a load-car... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6116596 | Cantilevered bins sheet sorter with incrementing end support An improvement in sheet sorters in which movable bins are incremented past a sheet entrance and the bins are cantilever-mounted and incremented in the sorter from only one side of the bins. The unsupported side or end of at least one of the cantilevered b... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6053496 | Folding cover with living hinge A guard inhibits access between a first member and a second member having relative motion between the first member and the second member. The guard includes a body having a first portion and a second portion. The second portion is pivotably connected to t... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5961110 | Sheet sorter with sheet jam detection The present invention provides a sheet post-treatment apparatus comprising a sheet convey portion having a sheet path and a sheet discharge opening, and a sheet receiving tray portion having a plurality of sheet receiving tray means. Wherein a sheet is tr... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5934670 | Apparatus having a rotary circulating mechanism A sorter includes a plurality of receiver members for receiving a workpiece, and a rotary circulating mechanism driven by a driving unit to circulate along a circulatory path. The circulating mechanism mounts the receiver members to be pivotable about a f... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5934669 | Sorter having non-sorting bin and multiple sorting bins, and sorting method used in sorter A sorter includes a non-sorting paper exit, a sorting paper exit, a non-sorting bin and a bin assembly having a plurality of sorting bins. When a non-sorting mode is selected, papers is ejected from the non-sorting exit to the non-sorting bin which faces ... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5924689 | Sheet sorter with stapler A sheet sorter with a stapler includes bins arranged in a vertical direction each of which receives a plurality of sheets discharged from an image recording apparatus to form a stack of sheets. An indexer receives the sheets from the image recording appar... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5901955 | Gripper seat A rotatable gripper drum includes a seat mounted on the drum and a gripper supported on the drum for pivotal movement relative to the seat between an open position and a closed position. The seat is made from a resilient material and includes a body porti... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5895043 | Device for feeding a conveying apparatus An arrangement for feeding a conveying apparatus comprising hoppers for flat products such as envelopes, mailing pouches, workpieces and the like, which can be emptied at certain intervals and are secured on a rotatably driven traction element. A device i... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5887869 | Method and apparatus for collecting and transporting copy or print jobs The apparatus for carrying out the method comprises a plurality of delivery trays arranged in the manner of a circulating bucket lift, which on the basis of user inputs can be freely selected and transported to a loading plane in which an inlet opening fo... | 03/30/1999 |
