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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7364149 | Sheet finishing apparatus A sheet finishing apparatus of the present invention takes in sheets of paper ejected from an image forming apparatus through a taking-in port and clamping and conveying the sheets of paper by a pair of pinch rollers for post processing, has a sheet guidance member ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7354037 | Stapler for a finishing device having a variable start pulse A stapler is incorporated in a finishing device associated with a document creating apparatus. The stapler has a control circuit with a memory and is driven by a variably powered motor. An end user inputs the job parameter information at the control panel of the doc... | 04/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7328894 | Sheet finishing apparatus A sheet finishing apparatus of the present invention has a gate for taking in sheets of paper ejected from an image forming apparatus through a taking-in port and switching to either of a conveying path for post processing or a conveying path for non-post processing... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7168890 | Eccentric vibration system with resonance control The present invention may be embodied as an eccentric vibration system comprising a major eccentric member, a minor eccentric member, first and second motor assemblies, and a transmission system. The transmission system operates in a first mode when a torque of the ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7019852 | Image forming apparatus capable of image formation in a plurality of modes A user-friendly, image forming apparatus capable of reducing operation errors by users provides a permission to change a print mode to the staple print mode when the device is placed in the original mixed mode and the image data of originals all have a same length i... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6914687 | Data processing apparatus and image recording apparatus, method for controlling data processing apparatus and method for controlling image recording apparatus, and storage medium An image recording apparatus is shared by a plurality of users. A host computer obtains information concerning a sheet discharge bin of discrimination names and the like registered in the image recording apparatus by requested it to the image recording apparatus. A ... | 07/05/2005 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5845901 | Parallel moving tray sorter A moving bin sorter of the type in which the trays are individually and collectively moved vertically relative to a sheet inlet location and opened to provide an enlarged sheet entry space for receiving the sheets, has cams and counterbalancing springs to... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5673906 | Sheet post-treating apparatus A sheet post-treating apparatus has a horizontally disposed sorting tray to receive sheets. The sheets are discharged from the horizontally disposed sorting tray into a discharge tray. At least portions of the discharge tray can be moved vertically to acc... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5634632 | Sheet post-treating apparatus A sheet post-treating apparatus includes a gripper that moves a pile of sheets from a sorting tray to a discharge tray. The position of the pile of sheets on the tray is selected between alternative discharge positions so that successive piles can be jogg... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5524873 | Finisher for image forming apparatus A finisher for finishing sheets for use in a copier, printer or similar image forming apparatus having a sorter for sorting sheets on a plurality of bins, and further having a stapler or a punching device. A bin moving member is provided for moving the pl... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5407186 | Sheet finish-processing unit in image forming apparatus Image forming apparatus including a sheet finish-processing unit for finish-processing sheets discharged from a copying machine to which the unit is laterally positioned and stored thereby into a plurality of stacks. A sheet stack finish-processing mechan... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5265855 | Copier with document support moving means A document feeder for feeding a plurality of different kinds of document to image forming equipment automatically, and a sheet finisher for sorting, stapling or otherwise finishing sheets inclusive of the documents. A drive source selectively drives a doc... | 11/30/1993 |
| 5180152 | Sorter A sorter comprising a plurality of vertically arranged bin trays. Each of the bin trays is moved through a predetermined moving passage, and the moving passage includes a main portion and a by-pass caused to detour from the main portion to the upstream or... | 01/19/1993 |
| 5131642 | Sorter A vertically arranged plurality of trays are each formed with a cut-out at a rear corner. The trays are arranged so that the corner where the cut-out is formed is lower than the other corners. Vertically upward extending rear and side walls are provided o... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5125634 | Combined sheet collator and stapler A sheet sorter for a copy producing machine has trays which are sequentially moved past a sheet entry location by a tray shifting device. Sheets are fed into the trays to form collated sets. A gripper is moved from a retracted position into a position at ... | 06/30/1992 |
| 5112035 | Sorter A sorter includes a plurality of vertically movable trays which are each formed with a cut-out in one corner. The trays are supported so that the corners in which the cut-outs are formed are lower than the other corners of the tray. Rear and side walls fl... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5104106 | 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 so... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5088709 | Sorter A sorter includes a plurality of vertically movable trays which are each formed with a cut-out in one corner. The trays are each oriented so that a corner in which the cut-out is formed is lower than the other corners of the tray and formed with a rear wa... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5053831 | Image forming apparatus having a finisher A copying machine having a sorter and a finisher is capable of operating in three different modes: a copying mode with sorting, a copying mode without sorting, and a stapling finish mode. When the stapling finish mode is selected, an automatic magnificati... | 10/01/1991 |
| 4946152 | Sorter-finisher In a sorter-finisher with a sorting and stapling functions, the sheets ejected from a copying machine are transported and stored one by one into bins which are movable in the vertical direction along a guiding member, after taking out from each of the bin... | 08/07/1990 |
| 4886259 | Sorter-finisher system A sorter-finisher system having a sorting unit comprising plural number of inclined bins arranged vertically at specified intervals and a transport unit for transporting bunches of sheets distributed among the bins to a sheet binding unit. When the sheets... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4801133 | Sheet processing apparatus with a sheet binding function A sheet processing apparatus having a sorting unit to distribute the sheets among a plurality of bins, a binding unit to bind the sheets and a transporting unit to sequentially transport the sheets contained in each of the bins to the binding unit. The sh... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4687191 | Sorter and reciprocating stapler apparatus A sheet sorter of the nesting-bin type includes translatable bins that are driven so that there is an additional space between the bin immediately on top of a sheet-entry location and any superposed bins. This provides access to a corner of a set of sheet... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4681310 | Sorting apparatus An apparatus in which sheets are sorted in selected ones of a plurality of movable trays shiftable relative to one another. One edge of the trays is supported with the remaining edges thereof being unsupported. Successive trays move from one side of a she... | 07/21/1987 |
