Sheet Transporting Apparatus

... 1,162,982. Feeding and delivering sheets. RANK XEROX Ltd. 2 Sept., 1966 [3 Sept., 1965], No. 37754/65. Heading B8R. [Also in Division G2] A document 11, to be copied, is introduced on to an exposure drum 12 along guide 13 which terminates in jaws 104, 105 movable between a position where the document is presented for gripping by gripper fingers 14, Fig. 1, and a position where the document is presented against a fixed stop 106. When solenoid operated latch 107 is released the document is gripped by grippers 14, the latch being re-set by pin 111 on the drum 12. Gripper mechanism.-A pin 25 engages arm 24 of dog 17 attached to gripper-carrying arm 15, thus displacing toggle 18 to its first stable position and withdrawing the grippers into the drum. A pin 26 engages arm 23 of dog 17, moving toggle 18 to its second stable position and closing the grippers on a document. Pin 25 is adapted to engage the dogs to move one, or both sets of grippers, under the control of solenoids. Delivering sheets ...

Controlling access to sheets at delivery port.

A sheet delivery apparatus (10) in the form of an accessory adapted to be secured to a printing machine (11). The apparatus comprises a sheet receiver (12) arranged to co-operate with the printing machine to receive one or more sheets output by the printing machine, and sheet delivery system (18, 19) for presenting the one or more sheets to a user, the sheets being partially fed by the sheet delivery means through a security gate and deflector system to enable removal of the sheet or sheets by the user. The sheet delivery system is controlled so as to withdraw sheets from access by the user if the sheets have not been removed after a predetermined time has elapsed and to deflect them into an internal secure bin, with the security gate and deflector system being provided by a dual function dual position shutter and deflector member.

Transportvorrichtung fuer zu vervielfaeltigende Blaetter

SHEET DELIVERY DEVICE FOR PRINTER

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the sheet delivery device at low cost, which delivers to users the output sheet of a printer located inside an automatic service machine as a complete set. SOLUTION: The sheet delivery device is formed out of a sheet receiving means 12 which is so constituted as to receive one or more sheets outputted by a printer in cooperation with the printer 11, and of sheet delivery means 18 and 19 which partially deliver the sheets in such a way that one or more sheets can be taken out, and thereby deliver one or more sheets to users. The sheet delivery device 10 is so controlled that the sheets are supposed to be pulled in from an access set by the users when no sheet is taken out by the users even if the specified period of time has elapsed. COPYRIGHT: (C)1998,JPO ...