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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7267338 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus ejects the sheet to witch image processing unit perform to an ejection tray or a staple stacker by a pair of ejection rollers and the like. A sheet path for guiding the sheet to the ejection rollers is opened and closed in conjunction w... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7259346 | Progressive modularity assortment system with high and low capacity bins A modular bin or pocket has an integrated transport assembly and mail piece diverter assembly and is usable in a bin stacker section in mail handling and sorting systems. The modular bin is individually removable, interchangeable and replaceable from the bin stacker... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7258339 | Sheet processing device with sheet lift preventing member and image forming apparatus having the same A sheet processing device of the invention has an upper conveying guide, being rotatable in the vertical direction, for guiding the upper surface of the sheet, a lower conveying guide, on which the sheets are stacked, for guiding the lower surface of the sheet, uppe... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7237774 | Sheet treating apparatus and image forming apparatus The trailing edge of a sheet delivered to a treating tray for treating the sheet with respect to a delivering direction is made to abut against a trailing edge regulating member to thereby regulate the trailing edge position of the sheet. Next, a sheet delivery leve... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7234696 | Method of, and apparatus for, handling blanks, in particular coupons For producing (cigarettes) packs (10) with a coupon positioned between the pack and outer wrapper made of film, the coupons are supplied to a packaging machine for the outer wrapper and are transported in the region of the packaging machine by a coupon convey... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7226050 | Discharge sheet stacking apparatus and image forming apparatus provided with the same A sheet post-treating apparatus is provided with a discharged sheet stacking tray displaceably provided in a casing portion for stacking thereon sheets discharged from the casing portion, and a holding portion for holding the discharged sheet stacking tray in a firs... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7192029 | Sheet conveying apparatus, sheet post-processing apparatus, and image forming apparatus provided with sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet post-processing apparatus includes a pair of a conveying upper guide and a conveying lower guide which guides a sheet conveyed by an intermediate roller conveying the sheet, a sheet discharging upper rotating body and a sheet discharging lower rotating body ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7175068 | Method and apparatus for containing mail articles deposited in a mail drop box A mail box configured to contain and reduce exposure to hazardous particulates, which includes a container having a deposit port at an upper end and a collection chamber at a lower end. There is at least one door at the upper end for mail to be placed into the depos... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7093831 | Media path modules A media transport array for forming sequential media streams feeding a media processing system in which serial flows, parallel flows, or both are desired are structured from standard, batch fabricatable media path modules. Each media path module includes a frame uni... | 08/22/2006 |
| 6997456 | Sheet processing device with sheet lift preventing member and image forming apparatus having the same A sheet processing device of the invention has an upper conveying guide, being rotatable in the vertical direction, for guiding the upper surface of the sheet, a lower conveying guide, on which the sheets are stacked, for guiding the lower surface of the sheet, uppe... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6973285 | Discharge sheet stacking apparatus and image forming apparatus provided with the same A sheet post-treating apparatus is provided with a discharged sheet stacking tray displaceably provided in a casing portion for stacking thereon sheets discharged from the casing portion, and a holding portion for holding the discharged sheet stacking tray in a firs... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6912044 | Sheet post-processing device and image forming apparatus having the device Disclosed is a sheet post-processing device, including: a downstream side intermediate stacking unit having a pair of slide guides for supporting left and right edges of the sheet that is sent, the slide guides moving toward and away from each other so that the shee... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6708972 | Sheet-like object sorter, and discharged paper processing device for image-forming apparatus employing the same A plurality of bin units are provided with respective gates and, hence, it is possible to sufficiently narrow the clearance between the gates and the bodies of the bin unit. When the gate provided at each bin unit is expanded to lie toward a conveying path, the fron... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6523697 | Mail processing machine drop box and method A mail processing system drop box assembly. The drop box assembly includes a diverter and a sliding board. The sliding board is positioned below the diverter. A top edge of the sliding board is substantially parallel to the bottom edge of the diverter and... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6513806 | Recording device for cards A recording device for recording information data such as images and characters on a recording card has one or more card transfer paths intersecting with a first transfer path extending from a card supply means at one or more intersection points. At the i... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6443449 | Paper sheet discharge apparatus and printing apparatus A paper sheet discharge apparatus comprises a transport roller for transporting paper sheets discharged from an image-forming apparatus, a plurality of switching flappers for guiding the paper sheets to desired bins, and a plurality of delivery rollers fo... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6325371 | Sheet conveying apparatus with conveying path changing device and sorter A sheet conveying apparatus including a conveying path changing device, the conveying path changing device having a main conveying path for conveying a sheet, a plurality of branched paths branched from the main conveying path, a plurality of oscillatable... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6308952 | Paper sheet discharge apparatus A paper sheet discharge apparatus comprises a transport roller that transports paper sheets discharged from an image-forming apparatus, a plurality of switching flappers that guide the paper sheets to desired bins, and a plurality of delivery rollers that... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6257572 | Image forming apparatus having sheet post-processing unit An image forming apparatus comprises a main body and a sheet post-processing unit. The main body has a first discharge path, a second discharge path, a first mounting portion and a second mounting portion. The sheet post-processing unit has a first sheet ... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6206369 | Sorter A sheet passage changing apparatus includes a plurality of swingable changing devices for changing a sheet transporting direction; common drivers for swinging the plurality of changing devices; a controller for actuating the drivers, before a sheet reache... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6170822 | Leaflets handling apparatus A paper currency reception/delivery machine having a high degree of general-purpose utility and implemented in a simple structure of a small size at low cost and capable of handling foreign paper currencies of different sizes and other leaflets is imparte... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6164638 | Automated banking machine with currency recycling canisters An automated banking machine (10) identifies and stores documents such as currency bills deposited by a user. The machine then selectively recovers such documents from storage and dispenses them to other users. The machine includes a central transport (70... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6047959 | Automatic document feeder An automatic document feeder includes a paper supply inlet and a first paper ejection outlet disposed above the paper supply inlet, a paper supply path for leading a document supplied from the paper supply inlet to a reading section, and a paper ejection ... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6045127 | Ejected paper sorting device and its use in image recording apparatus A paper sorting device is incorporated in a recording machine. The paper sorting device includes a first paper tray located near a recording paper exit of the recording machine and a second paper tray located below the first paper tray. A flap is provided... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6024359 | Sheet stacking techniques A document processing arrangement transporting sheets at a prescribed nominal speed along a track, terminated by sort-pockets, each with an associated diverter plus a guide assembly for guiding and driving a so diverted sheet into its pocket, the guide co... | 02/15/2000 |
| 5938194 | Mailbox with spring biased gates A sorter mailbox has a sheet transport for moving sheets through a feed path to a set or sets of vertically spaced receiver trays having sheet deflecting gates which are actuated so as to sowing toward or into an open sheet deflecting position so as to co... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5788229 | Path guide for selectively corrugating an output medium A method and an apparatus for corrugating the output of a reproduction device such as a photocopier includes a guiding arm for guiding an image carrying medium in a predetermined path towards a destination output bin and a projection for corrugating the i... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5657980 | Sorting feed mechanism A document sorter for a document dispenser comprises a feeding apparatus for feeding documents to a document feed path, a conveyance apparatus mounted along the document feed path for conveying documents along the document feed path, and a directing appar... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5618038 | Document stacking arrangement A document processing arrangement transporting sheets at a prescribed nominal speed along a track, terminated by sort-pockets, each with an associated diverter plus a guide assembly for guiding and driving a so diverted sheet into its pocket, the guide co... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5518232 | Sheet deflector with air gap infeed A sheet receiver has sheet feeding belts and coacting feed rollers for transporting sheets of paper through the feed path to selected vertically spaced trays, and sheet deflecting gates are associated with the feed rollers to deflect sheets from the feed ... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5501449 | Sorting apparatus and sorting and processing apparatus A sorting apparatus for use with a processor for media sheets. The processor has a top discharge and a service opening adjoining the discharge. The sorting apparatus has a body mounted on the processing apparatus. The body pivots about an axis of rotation... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5480032 | Product sorting apparatus for variable and irregularly shaped products A wide variety of product types, sizes and shapes are sorted into designated destination bins or other outputs utilizing a computer controlled transport path that includes an infeed section and a pinch roller diverting section. The infeed section receives... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5464200 | Sheet storing device with locking bins In a device for storing printings, film sheets or similar recording media driven out or an image forming apparatus, bins are each inclined from a top sheet inlet thereof to a bottom sheet outlet thereof. When all the bins are full, such a condition is rep... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5449168 | Sorting apparatus and sorting and processing apparatus A sorting apparatus for use with a processor for media sheets. The processor has a top discharge and a service opening adjoining the discharge. The sorting apparatus has a body mounted on the processing apparatus. The body pivots about an axis of rotation... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5396322 | Single feed path dual sheet receiver A random access sheet receiver has pairs or sets of trays for receiving sheets arranged in vertically spaced relation and extending horizontally in opposite directions from a central sheet path defined by gates and feed rollers and extending vertically be... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5370384 | Sheet transport belt and support system for a sorter or mailbox A sheet transport path system for transporting reproduction sheets along an elongated sheet transport path in a multibin sorter or mailbox system is provided by elongated moving belts having a high friction sheet engaging outside belt surface and an insid... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5356131 | Apparatus for transferring paper napkins or similar products from the production machine to stacker means The apparatus for transferring individual articles (M) in sheet form and placing them in stacks (P1, P2) of pre-determined numbers includes a conveyor (17, 23) which picks up the articles from a delivery system (11) by gripping them along their edges. Alo... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5354047 | Method for separating a sheet from an array of sheets conveyed along a vacuum conveyor using diverting nozzles The instant invention provides a method for reliably separating a selected sheet from a spaced array of sheets transported on a conveyor. The invention continuously maintains vacuum on the conveyors, and uses selectively activated jets directed at the und... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5346205 | Sorter having pivotable diverter gates with nip rollers and diverter module assembly therefor A random access mailbox has a stack of horizontally extended trays for receiving sheets of paper supplied from a printer. A modular construction provides a sheet transport system including gates to deflect sheets into a selected tray from sheet feeding ro... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5330174 | Automatic article discharge into mail container A device for the delivery of documents conveyed in a vertical orientation along a document path to a receptacle in a substantially horizontal orientation includes a diverter for diverting individual vertically disposed documents away from the document pat... | 07/19/1994 |
