| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 271306000 | With transfer means between conveyor and receiver | 78 |
| 20090014950 | SHEET POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS HAVING EXCELLENT SHEET STACKING CAPABILITY - A sheet post-processing apparatus discharges and conveys a sheet from a process tray to a storage tray, and decelerates a bundle hook and a paper discharge roller when the bundle hook reaches a discharge start position of a bundle of sheets. At this time, a tangential speed of the paper discharge roller is faster than a movement speed of the bundle hook. Subsequently, the sheet post-processing apparatus stops the paper discharge roller in accordance with a rotation position of the bundle hook, and then decelerates the movement speed of the bundle hook. After the sheets are stacked on the storage tray, the bundle hook accelerates to return to a home position. Additionally, the sheet post-processing apparatus includes a spool | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090058000 | Grouping Device - The invention relates to a grouping device ( | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090152811 | MAILPIECE CONTAINER FOR STACKING MIXED MAIL AND METHOD FOR STACKING MAIL THEREIN - A system is provided for stacking mail having an escort assembly for handling each mailpiece. The system comprises a containment device, a transport mechanism and a detachment mechanism. The containment device includes a base, vertical walls extending from the base and an open end for accepting the mailpieces therein. The containment device, furthermore, has a slot formed in at least one of the vertical walls thereof. The transport mechanism includes first and second transport segment, the first transport segment conveying escort assemblies and respective mailpieces over an open end of the containment device and the second transport segment lowering the escort assemblies and respective mailpieces into the open end of the containment device. The transport mechanism furthermore aligns the edges of the mailpieces along one of the vertical walls of the containment device and positions the escort assembly through the slot of the containment device. The detachment mechanism is operative to release the mailpieces from the respective escort assembly and move the escort assemblies through the slot of the containment device. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090194940 | Sheet-Processing Assembly having an Apparatus for Transporting a Pallet, Pallet Conveying System and Sheet-Fed Rotary Printing Press - A sheet-processing assembly includes an apparatus for transporting a pallet bearing a sheet stack and a transfer conveyor having a number of transport rollers disposed transversely to the direction of transport of the pallet and a receiving fixture for a load-bearing element for the pallet, for example a lift truck fork. The receiving fixture is aligned parallel to the transport rollers. A conveying system having a transfer conveyor and a sheet-fed rotary printing press having a conveying system, are also provided. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090273138 | RECORDING APPARATUS - This invention relates to a recording apparatus, comprising an opening delivering a recording medium after completion of recording and a cover capable of closing the opening in moving pivotally and a holding rib formed at the cover for holding a rear end as well as both sides of the delivered recording medium. The holding rib comes to be exposed when the cover is opened. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090295082 | RECORDING APPARATUS - There is provided a recording apparatus capable of bringing a delivery tray to an open state automatically when a sheet material is conveyed without the need for a solenoid to open the delivery tray, and preventing the delivery tray from opening inadvertently except during recording. The recording apparatus includes a delay mechanism comprising plural ring members rotatable with some delay in sync with a delivery roller, and a control mechanism comprising plural link members, and plural elastic members. Plural cam portions rotatable together with the plural ring members, and a phase control unit for controlling the phases of the plural cam portions are provided in the delay mechanism. One link member of the control mechanism is connected to a delivery tray. When the phases of the plural cam portions match, the delivery tray is opened through the control mechanism by a drive of the delivery roller. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090295083 | SHEET STACKING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet stacking apparatus includes a discharging portion configured to discharge a sheet, a stacking portion configured to stack a discharged sheet, and a deforming member configured to deform the sheet to be discharged by the discharging portion, wherein the deforming member decreases a deformation amount of the sheet as a stacking amount of the sheets stacked on the stacking portion increases. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100052252 | Image forming apparatus - An image forming apparatus to form an image on a sheet of recording media includes a discharge port formed in an upper portion of a main body of the image forming apparatus and exposed from above, a discharge portion to which the sheet is discharged, disposed downstream from the discharge port in a direction in which a sheet is discharged, a discharge roller disposed at the discharge port, a facing member disposed facing the discharge roller, forming a discharge nip together with the discharge roller, and a rotatable sheet discharge member. The sheet discharge member is provided in the discharge portion to form a sloped portion continuous with a downstream side of the discharge port in the direction in which the sheet is discharged. Rotation of the sheet discharge member causes a position of the discharge nip to change. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100314829 | SUPPORTING PLATE FOR AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT FEEDER AND PAPER OUTPUT MECHANISM USING SAME - A supporting plate for an automatic document feeder, adapted to configure a plurality of paper feeding rollers installed correspondingly to a plurality of transmission wheels, and used for transmitting a document to a paper output tray, the supporting plate including a plate body, including a plurality of accepting holes and adapted to install the plurality of paper feeding rollers, the plurality of paper feeding rollers and the plurality of transmission wheels drive the document move along a paper output direction toward the paper output tray; and a plurality of supporting portions, disposed at sides of the plurality of accepting holes along the paper output direction, and used for supporting the document to cause the document to form a curved body while being moved. A paper output mechanism using the aforementioned supporting plate is also disclosed here. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20130001872 | DEVICE FOR DEPOSITING SHEETS FOR A PRINTING MACHINE - The invention relates to a device for depositing sheets for a printing machine, preferably for an electrophotographically operating printing machine, said device comprising at least one sheet transport member which can be driven so as to rotate and which is provided for the detection of a lead edge of a sheet and for depositing the sheet after it has covered a rotating path. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130200567 | PAPER DISCHARGE DEVICE - In an image forming apparatus, a paper discharge roller of a paper discharge unit has an upper roller as a driving roller and a lower roller as a driven roller. The lower roller has a nip roller which is fixed to a shaft and holds paper between the nip roller and the upper roller, and forming rollers having a diameter larger than that of the nip roller and arranged on both sides of the nip roller. Since a conveyance speed of the paper is constant, the number of revolutions of the forming roller having a large outer diameter is smaller than that of a nip roller having a small outer diameter. The friction between the forming roller and the paper is lower than that in conventional art. Attachment and accumulation of ink are suppressed, and inconvenience of contamination of the paper with ink upon paper discharge hardly occurs. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130285320 | SHEET STACKING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A finisher includes: a bundle discharge roller pair; a sheet stacking portion which has a lower stacking tray, an abutment member on which a sheet is abuttable, and a sheet stacking height detecting sensor detecting a height of the sheets on the abutment member side, the sheet stacking portion configured to stack the sheet while lowering the lower stacking tray in accordance with a detection result; tray paddles coming into contact with the discharged sheet in a direction from a top of the sheet, to bring the sheet into abutment on the abutment member; a stacking amount detecting portion detecting a stacking amount of the stacked sheet, and a finisher control portion performing control of reducing a relative distance between the tray paddles and the sheet stacked on the lower stacking tray at the time of transporting of the sheet along with increase in the stacking amount of the sheet. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20140054854 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In a conveying belt that is entrained about a pair of bundle discharge rollers along a stacking wall, on which an end part of a sheet stacked on a stack tray abuts, between the stack tray and an intermediate processing tray, a position of an outer peripheral surface is displaced such that a projection amount of the conveying belt from the stacking wall is large when the pair of discharge rollers discharges the sheet to the stacking portion, and such that the projection amount is small when the pair of discharge rollers moves the sheet toward a stopper of the intermediate stacking portion. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140062016 | SHEET OUTPUT DEVICE, SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND SHEET OUTPUT METHOD - According to an embodiment, provided is a sheet output device including: a sheet output unit configured to output a sheet; a tray unit on which the sheet output by the sheet output unit is to be stacked; an air blower unit configured to blow air onto the sheet output by the sheet output unit; and a control unit configured to control an airflow rate of the air blower unit according to an amount of the sheet output from the sheet output unit. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140183817 | MOVING RAIL ASSEMBLY AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING AND DISPENSING BILL - Disclosed are a moving rail assembly and a bill receiving and dispensing apparatus which are configured such that an angle at which a carriage unit moves along a rail can be adjusted to various angles. The moving rail assembly includes a moving body, a main rail and a sub-rail. The moving body includes a main rotating roller and a sub-rotating roller disposed at a different widthwise position from the main rotating roller. The main rail has a first path for guiding the main rotating roller, and a second path for guiding the sub-rotating roller. The first path and the second path extend parallel to each other. The sub-rail branches off from the second path and extends in a different direction from the main rail. The sub-rail guides the sub-rotating roller. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20150028540 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet processing apparatus including a stacking tray that stacks sheets, a conveying member that conveys a sheet to the stacking tray and discharges the sheet bundle from the stacking tray, wherein the conveying member includes a conveying roller and a conveying belt stretched by a plurality of stretch rollers, and a sheet processor that performs predetermined processing to the sheet bundle. When the conveying member conveys the sheet to the stacking tray, a part of the conveying belt that is not wound on the stretch roller contacts the conveying roller by moving the conveying belt as such a nip for conveying the sheet is formed. When the conveying member discharges the sheet bundle from the stacking tray, a part of the conveying belt that is wound on the stretch roller contacts the conveying roller by moving the conveying belt so that a nip for conveying the sheet is formed. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150314977 | MEDIUM HANDOVER DEVICE AND MEDIUM PROCESSING DEVICE - A medium handover device is provided including: a fixed peripheral side section that covers portions of side faces enclosing a periphery of a collection space in which a paper sheet shaped medium is collected, other than at least a portion of an opposing side face opposing a medium support section supporting the medium inside the collection space, which portion is open, and other than at least a portion of an adjacent side face adjacent to the opposing side face, which portion is open; a lid section that has a shape covering portions of the side faces enclosing the periphery of the collection space that are not covered by the fixed peripheral side section; a transition section that transitions the lid section to enable the lid section to adopt a closed state with respect to the fixed peripheral side section in which the lid section is close to or abutting the fixed peripheral side section and the collection space is closed, and to adopt an open state with respect to the fixed peripheral side section in which at least a portion of the lid section is separated from the fixed peripheral side section and the collection space is opened; and a transfer section that transfers the medium between an interior and an exterior of the collection space. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150353315 | SHEET EJECTING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND SHEET EJECTING METHOD - A sheet ejecting device includes: a sheet ejecting unit configured to eject a sheet; a stacking unit on which the sheet that is ejected by the ejecting unit is stacked; an aligning unit configured to align the sheet in a direction orthogonal to the direction in which the sheet is ejected; and a blowing unit configured to be provided to the aligning unit and blow a wind toward the ejected sheet. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20160163143 | PAPER SHEET STACKING MECHANISM AND PAPER SHEET HANDLING DEVICE - A paper sheet stacking mechanism | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160176670 | SHEET POST-PROCESSING DEVICE AND SHEET POST-PROCESSING METHOD | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160185551 | SHEET CONVEYING APPARATUS - A sheet conveying apparatus includes: a conveyor configured to convey a sheet along a conveyance path; and a discharge tray having a support surface for supporting the sheet discharged from the conveyor. The conveyor includes a discharge unit for discharging the sheet conveyed along the conveyance path, onto the discharge tray. The discharge tray is provided with a projection protruding upward from the support surface and elongated in a direction along a discharge direction in which the sheet is conveyed. At least a portion of the projection which has a downstream edge of the projection in the discharge direction is a movable portion changeable between a first position at which an upper end portion of the projection is farthest from the support surface and a second position which is nearer to the support surface than the first position. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160187830 | RECORDING MATERIAL PROCESSING APPARATUS INCLUDING ALIGNMENT UNIT FOR ALIGNING RECORDING MATERIALS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A recording material processing apparatus includes: a first stacking unit configured to stack a recording material; a second stacking unit provided on a downstream side of the first stacking unit in a conveyance direction of the recording material; an alignment unit configured to align the recording material stacked in the first stacking unit before the recording material is discharged to the second stacking unit; and a control unit configured to perform control of discharging the recording material to the second stacking unit by switching between first control not to align the recording material by the alignment unit and second control to align the recording material by the alignment unit. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160194172 | PAPER POST-PROCESSING DEVICE | 07-07-2016 |
| 271307000 | Means to strip sheets from engagement with moving conveyor | 4 |
| 20130277910 | APPARATUS FOR STACKING SHEET MATERIAL - The sheet compartments of a stacking wheel of a stacking device, as used in sheet goods processing devices, in particular in banknote processing machines and automated money deposit and/or withdrawal machines, have a wavy contour. The braking effect on the banknotes fed into the sheet compartments is thereby increased, so that the banknotes can be fed into the sheet compartments at increased speed without being damaged. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130313774 | SLIDING MEMBER FOR SHEET-SHAPED RECORDING MATERIAL DETACHMENT, SEAL RING FOR AUTOMOBILE, AND SEAL RING AND SLIDING MEMBER FOR INDUSTRIAL GAS COMPRESSOR - An objective of the present invention is to provide a sliding member for sheet-shaped recording material detachment having superior resistance to abrasion and superior heat resistant rigidity, and either a seal ring for an automobile or a seal ring or a sliding member for an industrial gas compressor, having high mechanical strength while ensuring flexibility. The objective is achieved with a sliding member for sheet-shaped recording material detachment, and either a seal ring for an automobile or a seal ring or a sliding member for an industrial gas compressor, made from a resin composite comprising: as a first element, either an adhesive fluorocarbon resin (A) or a resin compound of the resin (A) and a fluorocarbon resin (B) which differs from the resin (A), which are in a volumetric ratio (AB) of 5/95 to 99/1; and as a second element, 0.5 to 99 volume % of a thermoplastic polyimide (C). | 11-28-2013 |
| 271308000 | Stripper cyclically movable between stripping and nonstripping position | 2 |
| 20090212497 | PAPER EJECTING DEVICE - A paper ejecting device is provided which allows a sheet jumping from a paper ejecting device to a paper receiving tray to be ejected with a desired shape by changing the corrected shape of the sheet according to the kind (size, thickness) of paper. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20100176549 | SHEET DECELERATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - The present disclosure relates to sheet deceleration apparatus and methods for decelerating a sheet of material for use in a sheet stacking or other application. The deceleration apparatus includes a pair of rotatable rollers, being rotatable about first and second axes, the rollers positioned on opposite sides of the travel path. At least one of the rollers is moveable relative to the other to nip the sheet between the rollers to reduce the travel speed of the sheet. A vacuum conveyor is further provided along the travel path subsequent the pair of rollers to control delivery of the sheet to a stacking hopper. A third rotatable roller, or similar apparatus, may be included in some embodiments, for pushing the sheet of material away from the vacuum conveyor at the appropriate time. | 07-15-2010 |
| 271176000 | Responsive to delivered sheet | 12 |
| 20090230613 | Sheet aligning device, sheet processing device, and image forming apparatus - A conveying unit receives a sheet from an upstream unit and conveys the sheet on a conveying path. A stacking unit stacks the sheet conveyed from the conveying unit. An aligning unit sets the sheet back in a direction opposite to a sheet conveying direction and aligns the sheet by bumping the sheet against a reference wall. A sheet discharging unit discharges the sheet aligned on the stacking unit. When a predetermined condition is satisfied, a control unit sets a timing for discharging the sheet by the sheet discharging unit earlier than a normal sheet discharge timing. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20130134659 | SHEET DISCHARGING DEVICE, SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND SHEET DISCHARGING METHOD - A sheet discharging device includes: sheet discharging rollers that receive each of sheets conveyed thereto and discharge the sheets one by one; a shift tray on which the sheets discharged by the sheet discharging rollers are to be stacked; an air blower; and a CPU. The air blower forms an air layer between the shift tray and a sheet when the sheet is discharged onto the shift tray by the sheet discharging rollers, or between a sheet and the sheet that is already placed on the shift tray when the sheet is discharged. The CPU controls an air velocity of air to be delivered by the air blower based on sheet information, thereby causing the air layer to extend to the entire surface of the sheet. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20140239576 | SHEET EJECTION DEVICE AND SHEET EJECTION METHOD - The purpose of the present invention is to provide a sheet ejection device enabled to operate continuously by automatically disabling an intrusion detector while effectively ensuring safety and also provide a sheet ejection method. The sheet ejection device comprises: a paper ejection chain ( | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140312559 | SHEET STACKING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet stacking apparatus includes: a sheet stacking apparatus comprising: a sheet stacking portion on which a sheet discharged from a sheet discharge port is stacked; a cover portion disposed above the sheet stacking portion and having a facing surface facing a sheet stacking surface of the sheet stacking portion; a driving portion configured to lift and lower the sheet stacking portion; and a controller configured to control the driving portion such that, when a sheet is not stacked on the sheet stacking portion, a distance between the facing surface of the cover portion and the sheet stacking surface of the sheet stacking portion is kept within a predetermined range, and when a sheet is stacked on the sheet stacking portion, a distance between the facing surface of the cover portion and an uppermost surface of the sheet stacked on the sheet stacking portion is kept within the predetermined range. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20150014915 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF FORMING IMAGES IN DOUBLE-SIDED MODE - An image forming apparatus which enables double-sided image formation using a sheet feeding unit, and is capable of discharging a sheet, whose sheet length is undetermined by the time the sheet reaches a branch area in conveyance for double-sided image formation, without guiding it to a sheet inverting unit. A conveying flapper switches a destination for a sheet to a first conveying path leading to a sheet inverting unit or a second conveying path leading to a sheet discharge tray. A length of a sheet in a conveying direction is detected while the sheet is being conveyed. When a size of the sheet is undetermined, and the length of the sheet is not detected by the time the sheet reaches the conveying flapper, the conveying flapper is controlled so as to convey the sheet with an image formed on a first side thereof to the second conveying path. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150108712 | SHEET STACKING APPARATUS AND SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AS WELL AS IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Disclosed is a sheet processing apparatus including an intermediate processing tray on which a sheet conveyed by a discharge roller is stacked, a proximal aligning plate and a distal aligning plate moving in a sheet width direction for aligning the sheet conveyed onto the intermediate processing tray, and a finisher controller for moving and controlling the proximal aligning plate and the distal aligning plate to align, when a sheet having a length in the sheet conveyance direction shorter than a predetermined length in the sheet conveyance direction is conveyed, the sheet at a position shifted nearer to a take-out port side A in the sheet width direction than a position in the sheet width direction at which a sheet having a length in the sheet conveyance direction equal to or more than the predetermined length in the sheet conveyance direction is aligned. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150307308 | SHEET STACKING APPARATUS HAVING TRAY THAT IS LIFTED AND LOWERED AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet stacking apparatus for performing post-processing on sheets received from an image forming apparatus and discharging the processed sheets. A stacking tray has the received sheets stacked thereon. A CPU controls a tray lifting/lowering motor to drive the stacking tray to be lifted or lowered. The CPU determines a vertically moving state of the stacking tray. When the stacking tray is not lowered though the tray lifting/lowering motor is controlled to lower the stacking tray, the CPU notifies the image forming apparatus that a job should be suspended. After notifying, the CPU controls the tray lifting/lowering motor to lift the stacking tray. Then, when the stacking tray can be lifted, the CPU notifies the image forming apparatus that the job is to be resumed. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150307311 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The present disclosure relates to image forming apparatus capable of preventing damage even when actuator for detecting sheets loaded on sheet tray is rotated beyond acceptable range. A rotation shaft is disposed in the vicinity of a cover rotation portion of a sheet tray that is to be opened and closed. The image forming apparatus includes a connection portion and an actuator rotating in accordance with an amount of loaded sheets. The actuator includes a rotation shaft, a first rotor supported on the rotation shaft, and a second rotor that is rotatably supported by a cylindrical portion coaxial to the rotation shaft. The connection portion is configured to, when the first rotor rotates in a direction away from the sheet placement surface, make contact with, and rotate the second rotor in the same rotation direction, and rotate only the first rotor when the second rotor reaches a predetermined position. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150344254 | PAPER DISCHARGE DEVICE - When a face of a paper sheet to be discharged on which an image is formed faces downward, a paper discharge device divides an image region of image data on the paper sheet to be discharged into areas along a discharge direction, detects an area in which maximum image density for each divided area is higher than or equal to a specified threshold, and controls a discharge angle so that the detected area does not come into contact with a stacked paper sheet until the paper sheet to be discharged has been discharged from a discharge roller. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150344258 | PAPER DISCHARGE DEVICE - A paper discharge device including discharge rollers that discharge a paper sheet and a paper discharge tray on which discharged paper sheets are stacked further includes a control unit that controls the discharge angle of a paper sheet according to at least the stacked amount of paper sheets that are stacked on the paper discharge tray so that the position at which the front end of a paper sheet to be discharged begins to come into contact with the stacked paper sheets on the paper discharge tray is within a specified range from the front end of the stacked paper sheets. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150353314 | SHEET PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A sheet processing device includes a housing, a sheet stacking portion, a sheet discharge portion, a contact member, a conveyance unit, and an association mechanism. A sheet discharge portion is disposed in the housing and faces a space over the sheet stacking portion, the sheet discharge portion including a pair of discharge rollers. The contact member is disposed in the sheet discharge portion, and is movable to project into a sheet conveyance passage to come into contact with a surface of the sheet. The conveyance unit is selectively mounted in the space of the housing, and is configured to receive a sheet delivered by the pair of discharge rollers and convey the sheet. The association mechanism is operable to cause the contact member to recede from the sheet conveyance passage in association with the mounting of the conveyance unit in the housing. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20160060071 | SHEET DISCHARGING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH SAME - A sheet discharging device includes a sheet discharge roller pair, a sheet discharge tray, a first actuator, a second actuator and a detector. The first actuator includes a first shaft portion and a first contact piece. The second actuator includes a second shaft portion, a second contact piece and a third contact piece. The detector detects the discharge of the sheet by the rotation of the second actuator about the second shaft portion. The leading end of a first sheet comes into contact with the first, second and third contact pieces to rotate the first and second actuators and the detector detects the discharge of the first sheet. The leading end of a second sheet comes into contact with only the third contact piece to rotate the second actuator without rotating the first actuator and the detector detects the discharge of the second sheet smaller than the first sheet. | 03-03-2016 |
| 271177000 | Means to push sheets out of edgewise into broadside movement (e.g., packer) | 3 |
| 20150054214 | Stacking Mechanisms and Cassettes for Documents - A stacking mechanism for a cassette to store documents, a document cassette assembly comprising a stacking mechanism, and a method of stacking a document into a document cassette are described. The stacking mechanism can include a pusher plate that is adapted to push documents into the cassette. At least two shutter members of the stacking mechanism can be arranged to define a gap between each other. The shutter members can be movable. During a stacking operation, the shutter members can be moved so that the gap between the shutter members is enlarged. The documents can be pushed into the cassette through the enlarged gap by the pusher plate. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described. | 02-26-2015 |
| 271178000 | Rotating packer | 1 |
| 20140327206 | ACCUMULATION DEVICE FOR PAPER-LIKE SHEETS - An accumulation device for paper-like sheets comprises a conveying part, a clamping part, a guiding part and an accumulating part, which are connected serially. The conveying part is used for conveying the paper-like sheet to the clamping part. The clamping part comprises a drive shaft and multiple banknote-stacking wheels fixed to the drive shaft, and every banknote-stacking wheel is provided with multiple wheel blades having the same curvature. The paper-like sheet can be clamped between any two adjacent wheel blades and rotatably conveyed to the guiding part. The guiding part receives the paper-like sheet conveyed by the clamping part and guides the paper-like sheet to the accumulating part. The accumulating part is used for accumulating the paper-like sheet conveyed by the guide part. The paper-like sheets are reliably collected among the wheel blades and prevented from scattering, and thus the paper-like sheets can be uniformly arranged in order and stacked on the accumulating part. | 11-06-2014 |
| 271180000 | By reciprocating or oscillating packer | 1 |
| 20090026695 | Stacking Cassette - A document storage container assembly ( | 01-29-2009 |
| 271182000 | Means to retard sheets | 7 |
| 20080265493 | AIR DELIVERY DEVICE FOR PRINTING AND COATING APPLICATIONS - An air delivery device and printing or coating machinery using the same. In one configuration, the air delivery device is an air knife that cooperates with a printing device such as a printing press, coating machine or the like. In a particular configuration, the air knife is situated adjacent a set of cylinders in the printing device such that upon a sheet or related piece of printed substrate being put in an air flowpath created by the air knife, one or more operations can be performed on the still wet printed or coated sheet to minimize the chance of contact of the wet sheet surface with sheet delivery or related components. Examples of such operations may include turning, bending or folding the sheet, as well as drying the ink or coating placed on the sheet by the printing machinery. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20090243197 | SLOWING DEVICE FOR A MACHINE FOR WORKING ELEMENTS IN SHEETS - A slowing device includes a flexible slowing member that extends transversely to the trajectory of sheets being fed. The member is movable between at least two limit positions, one in which its trajectory encounters that of the sheets, the other in which the slowing member is moved aside from the trajectory of the sheets. A drive device moves the slowing member between its limit positions. The drive device for the slowing member includes a pneumatic actuator which acts on a linear cam that pivots about a transverse shaft. A roller rolls along the surface of the linear cam. The roller and the slowing member are supported by a support that pivots about a transverse shaft. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20120038100 | SHEET FEEDING APPARATUS WITH BUFFER FUNCTION AND METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is a sheet feeding apparatus having a sheet buffer function (temporal storage function), which has a simple structure without a buffer drum and feeds a present sheet and a subsequent sheet by stacking the present sheet and the subsequent sheet. The sheet feeding apparatus includes a pair of discharge rollers including a driving roller and an idle roller, a first feeding path connected to the discharge rollers, a second feeding path located at a rear of the first feeding path, branch flaps installed at a branch part of the first and second feeding paths, a sheet detecting sensor installed on the first feeding path, a cam holder for rotatably supporting both ends of a rotating shaft of the driving roller, and a cam for moving the cam holder up and down to allow the driving roller to selectively engage with the idle roller. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20130320614 | SHEET DECELERATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - Sheet deceleration apparatus and methods for decelerating a sheet of material for use in a sheet stacking or other application. The deceleration apparatus includes a rotatable cam nip, rotatable about a first axis and provided on one side of the travel path, such that the sheet of material can pass by the cam nip. The cam nip includes a lobe end, such that when the lobe end is away from the travel path, the sheet of material can pass substantially unimpeded past the cam nip, and when the lobe end is near the travel path, the sheet of material is nipped by the cam nip decelerating the sheet of material from the first speed to a second speed. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20150084271 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING DEVICE AND DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided a document processing device and a document processing method capable of aligning and loading documents being transported surely and at a high speed. The document processing device includes: a document inverting means ( | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150115524 | SHEET DISCHARGE DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH THE SHEET DISCHARGE DEVICE - A sheet discharge device includes a sheet discharge roller, a driven roller and a restraint member. A sheet is discharged in a specified discharge direction while passing through a nip portion between the sheet discharge roller and the driven roller. The restraint member is disposed adjacent to the driven roller in a sheet width direction orthogonal to the discharge direction. The restraint member makes contact with a sheet surface of the sheet. When the sheet passes through the nip portion, if the pressing force received from the sheet is equal to or larger than a predetermined value, the restraint member is slid in the sheet width direction by the pressing force. | 04-30-2015 |
| 271183000 | By suction retarder | 1 |
| 20150069696 | APPARATUS FOR OVERLAPPING AND STACKING SHEETS - The invention relates to an apparatus for imbricating sheets and depositing them on a stack ( | 03-12-2015 |
| 271184000 | Means to change orientation or direction of sheets during delivery | 18 |
| 20120326384 | BANKNOTE STORING/FEEDING UNIT - An object of the invention is to provide a banknote storing/feeding unit which is capable of effectively utilizing winding spaces of a drum and a reel, to increase the number of banknotes to be stored. The banknote storing/feeding unit includes the drum which winds and rewinds a banknote together with a tape, and the reel which winds and rewinds the tape on and from the drum. A guide body swinging according to winding and rewinding of the tape and the banknote on and from the drum is provided between the drum and the reel. The guide body has a guide passage that guides the tape and the banknote to be wound and rewound on the drum. The guide body swings centering on a supporting point located within a region parallel to a virtual line connecting a rotational center of the drum and a rotational center of the reel. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20140151955 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a relay unit and a guide plate. The relay unit is detachably mounted in the in-body discharge section and receives a sheet discharged from the first exit port and conveys the sheet. The guide plate switches a conveyance path for the sheet discharged from the first exit port between a first path via the relay unit and a second path other than the first path. The relay unit includes a conveyance roller and a drive device. The conveyance roller conveys the sheet. The drive device rotates the conveyance roller. The drive device changes the posture of the guide plate between a first posture corresponding to the first path and a second posture corresponding to the second path. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140151956 | PAPER DISCHARGE DEVICE OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a paper discharge device includes a discharged-sheet receiving part that can be opened and closed on a side surface of an apparatus body, is closed on the side surface and receives a recording medium dropped from above along the side surface after image formation. | 06-05-2014 |
| 271185000 | Orientation-changing means | 15 |
| 20090039592 | Product orienting apparatus - A product orienting apparatus for orienting a product according to the present invention comprises a table comprising a rotatable device. The table has a table surface comprising at least a first surface area being provided by the rotatable device. The device is rotatable about an axis substantially perpendicular to the table surface. The table also has an array of substantially identical spherical rollers, each spherical roller being suitable for contacting the product at a first contacting point of the spherical roller and for contacting the table surface with a second contacting point of the spherical roller. The array of spherical rollers comprises a first group of spherical rollers contacting the surface area of the device with their second contacting point thereby enabling to convert a rotation of the device into rotation of a product contacting the spherical rollers of the first group of spherical rollers. The table furthermore has a plate having an aperture encompassing the rotatable device. The table surface comprises a second surface area provided by the plate. The second surface area is substantially coplanar with the first surface area. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20100066009 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There is provided an image forming apparatus which does not need height adjustment of the main body and the sheet post-processing device at the time of attaching the sheet post-processing device to the main body and which can prevent jam from occurring while securing the conveying force to convey paper sheets. In an image forming apparatus | 03-18-2010 |
| 20110024973 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In a sheet processing apparatus, a pair of regulating members is provided at a pair of joggers so that the regulating members are movable together with the joggers. When the pair of joggers is laterally moved, the pair of regulating members also laterally moves together with the pair of joggers. By moving the pair of joggers to passage positions, the pair of regulating members regulates the lateral ends of a sheet, which falls and is stacked on a first stacking tray. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20140265106 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an output unit, a pair of output rotary bodies, and a controller. A sheet having an image formed thereon is discharged to the output unit. When plural sheets are sequentially discharged to the output unit, the controller controls overlapping output operation to, with a trailing end portion of a preceding sheet of the plural sheets being held by the pair of output rotary bodies, feed a subsequent sheet of the sheets to between the pair of output rotary bodies to overlap a leading end portion of the subsequent sheet with the trailing end portion of the preceding sheet. With the leading end portion of the subsequent sheet overlapped with the trailing end portion of the preceding sheet, the controller controls the pair of output rotary bodies to rotate to discharge the preceding sheet to the output unit. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20150014916 | SHEET POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMATION SYSTEM USING THE APPARATUS - To effectively correct a sheet that is transported while being skewed, a post-processing apparatus B provided with a processing tray | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150130126 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SYNCHRONIZING ITEMS USING POSITION COMPENSATION - The present applications relates to techniques and equipment to control the alignment of cut sheets of paper that are transported in parallel in an inserting system prior to their assembly into a document and inserted into an envelope. The alignment of the parallel sheets is adjusted by commanding incremental position changes to servo drive motors used to control the position of the parallel sheets during their transport through a hold module of the inserting system. | 05-14-2015 |
| 271186000 | Sheet inverting means | 7 |
| 20090045568 | Sheet material accumulating apparatus - A sheet material accumulating apparatus for accumulating a sheet material W into an accumulated bundle P by arranging it in a mutually overlapping state is configured to be able to suppress an enlargement, a higher tallness, more complication, etc. of the apparatus and attain a curtailment of various costs, including a manufacture cost. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090085280 | Duplex ADF Mechanism - An duplex auto-document feed mechanism comprises an auto-document feedpath having a simplex feedpath portion and a duplexing feedpath portion in feeding communication with the simplex feedpath portion, the auto-document feedpath has a media input and a media output, an input roller for feeding media disposed at the media input and an exit nip positioned near the media output, a motor driving the input roller and the exit nip, a scanning station disposed along one of the duplex feedpath portion and the simplex feedpath portion, the exit nip having a first position wherein first and second rollers defining the exit nip are closed when receiving media during a simplex feeding procedure and open when a leading edge and trailing edge of media are passing through the exit nip simultaneously, wherein a change of motor direction one of opens the exit nip or closes the exit nip. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20100270736 | ELASTOMER GRIPPING BELT LOOP FOR A DISC STACKER SYSTEM - According to aspects of the embodiments, there is provided a printing system the use of an elastomer belt that would flex during media insertion, yet would be positioned and constructed such to prevent the media from escaping the pinch created by the gripper belt. The gripping force, created by the elastomer belt, increases if the sheet attempts to be removed via the orientation and mechanical advantage of the belt construction. This system also incorporates a feature to reduce the gripper belt holding force by means of a mechanical linkage actuated by a counter weighted, cam system or possibly an electromechanical device. The elastomer belt would eliminate any marks or scuffs on the media when it is removed from the disk stacker. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20110285076 | Sheet inverting device and image forming apparatus incorporating same - A sheet inverting device includes a loop pathway including an entrance slot to which a recording medium is conveyed and an exit slot from which the recording medium is conveyed, the loop pathway forming a loop shape to convey the recording medium therethrough in a forward direction defined by a sheet conveyance direction in which the recording medium is conveyed from the entrance slot travels, and a redirectable sheet conveyance member to convey the recording medium traveling through the loop pathway in the forward direction and a reverse direction that is the reverse of the forward direction. The exit slot is configured to convey the recording medium that is conveyed by the redirectable sheet conveyance member in the reverse direction outside the sheet inverting device therethrough. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20120235348 | SHEET INVERTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF INVERTING A FOLDED SHEET - A sheet inverting device and a method of inverting a folded sheet include an inverting element that inverts the sheet around an axis of rotation towards a receiving member for receiving the sheet, and at least one moveable stop member that limits, in a first position of the stop member above the receiving member, an unfolding movement of the sheet in a direction towards a far side of the receiving member. The stop member is adapted to be retracted from the first position into a second position of the stop member. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120267845 | SHEET STACKING DEVICE AND METHOD OF STACKING SHEETS - A sheet stacking device and method of stacking sheets, wherein a first pressing member engages with an edge of a new sheet to be deposited on top of a previously deposited sheet on a sheet receiving plane and presses down the edge, while a second pressing member maintains a pressure onto an edge of the previously deposited sheet. The second pressing member engages with the edge of the new sheet and presses down the edge onto the previously deposited sheet on the receiving plane, while the first pressing member maintains a pressure onto the edge of the new sheet. Thus, the sheets may always be pressed down on the edge by at least one of the first and second pressing members. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20140246827 | SHEET STACKING DEVICE - A sheet stacking device for forming a stack of subsequent sheets includes a rotatably arranged flipping element and a closed-loop shaped friction element. The flipping element includes a slot at its circumferential edge for accepting at least a portion of a sheet. In a first rotation zone, the flipping element is able to accept the sheet into the slot and, in a second rotation zone, the sheet is conveyed out of the slot onto the top of the stack of subsequent sheets. The friction element is moveably arranged on the flipping element, and is controllable to move into a first radial position and a second radial position. In the first radial position, the friction element does not apply a frictional force to a sheet in the transport path and in the second radial position, the friction element does apply a frictional force to a sheet in the transport path. | 09-04-2014 |
| 271187000 | By rotating circumferential-pocket members | 2 |
| 20090085281 | Dual disc stacker/stitcher high speed finisher - This is a stacker/stitcher assembly having two disc stackers facing each other. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090267289 | TRANSPORT APPARATUS - A transport apparatus, including a first transport portion for transporting one signature, a second transport portion for transporting other signature, and a fan wheel for entering both sheets, which have been transported by the first and second transport portions, between vanes thereof, and rotationally transporting the sheets, comprises: a main frame for supporting the first transport portion and the fan wheel; a movable frame for supporting the second transport portion; a first adjusting device for moving the main frame and the movable frame by the same amount; and a second adjusting device for moving the movable frame relative to the main frame. | 10-29-2009 |
| 271188000 | Means to bow sheets during delivery | 4 |
| 20110062657 | SIDE EDGE SHEET CURLER FOR SHEET HOLD DOWN DEVICES - A device is provided for curling side edges of a sheet of media to be held down by a hold down system in an image production system. The device has a first shaped element having an outer section, the outer section of the first shaped element pointing in a first direction; a second shaped element having an outer section, the outer section of the second shaped element pointing in a second direction opposite the first direction; a first pinching element adjacent to the first shaped element, a first pathway being formed between the first pinching element and the first shaped element; and a second pinching element adjacent to the second shaped element, a second pathway being formed between the second pinching element and the second shaped element. The first pathway is for forming an edge curl on a first side edge of the sheet of media, the second pathway is for forming an edge curl on a second side edge of the sheet of media, the second side edge is parallel to the first side edge, and the first and second side edges are parallel to a process direction in which the sheet of media is fed into the device. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20120292848 | PAPER CONVEYING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND INK-JET RECORDING APPARATUS - A sheet of paper is conveyed by a convey roller to a print receiving member and pushed forward thereon while being supported by ribs and pressed downward by pressing members so as to keep a predetermined distance between the paper and a recording head while an image is printed on the paper. Since the pressing members press respective side portions of the paper, the paper can be bent downward outside the outmost ribs and prevented from rising at the side portions. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20130001868 | METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMS FOR SUBSTRATE DECURLER INITIALIZATION AND SETUP - A decurler system includes a metallic penetrating roll and a conductive elastomeric idler roll that is movable from an open position to a contact position. The penetrating member is connected to an electrical power supply. When the idler roll contacts the penetrating roll, the idler roll conducts electrical power supplied to the penetrating roll. An initialization process includes detecting an electrical current conducted by the idler roll to determine that an idler roll is in a contact position. An idler roll wear is monitored by counting a number of steps that the idler roll is driven before an electrical current is detected at the idler roll. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20190144232 | SHEET PRESSING MECHANISM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | 05-16-2019 |
| 271189000 | Means temporarily interposed between conveyor and receiver | 7 |
| 20090189337 | PAPER OUTPUT MECHANISM - A paper output mechanism includes: a roller pair composed of a first roller and a second roller travelable around the first roller and configured, when the second roller is in a first position, to output a piece of paper to a paper placement part by pinching the piece of paper between the first and second rollers and driving at least one of the first and second rollers into rotation with an actuator; and a roller position changing mechanism for switching the second roller between the first position and a second position located closer to the paper output side than the first position. When the trailing edge of the piece of paper is sent out to the paper placement part, the roller position changing mechanism changes the second roller from the first position to the second position. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090289411 | APPARATUS FOR STACKING SHEET-LIKE PRODUCTS, IN PARTICULAR PRINTED PRODUCTS - A preliminary stacking device ( | 11-26-2009 |
| 20130187328 | SHEET EJECTING DEVICE - Disclosed is a sheet ejecting device. The sheet ejecting device includes a sheet stacking section; a bumping section; a sheet ejecting section; a mode selecting section; and a control section. The sheet ejecting section includes a pair of sheet clamping members which clamps one sheet or a plurality of overlapped sheets at a sheet clamping position and moves the one sheet or the plurality of overlapped sheets to a sheet stacking position in the sheet stacking section. The mode selecting section allows selection of an operation mode of the pair of sheet clamping members between a normal mode in which speed of the pair of sheet clamping members is a normal speed and a low speed mode in which a speed is lower than the normal speed. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20150091246 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet processing apparatus includes: a loading tray on which a sheet is loaded; a pair of ejection rollers that eject the sheet to the loading tray and in which a pair or roller members are configured to be able to contact with and separate from each other; a pair of shift rollers that is provided upstream of the pair of ejection rollers in a sheet conveyance direction, are movable in a sheet width direction that is a direction perpendicular to the sheet conveyance direction, convey the sheet towards the loading tray, and performs a shift operation of shifting the sheet to a different position in the sheet width direction; and a control unit that performs control to change, based on sheet information, a shift operation timing of the sheet by the pair of shift rollers and a contacting and separating timing of the pair of ejection rollers. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150097332 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FILLING A FLEXIBLE TRANSPORT CONTAINER WITH NOTES OF VALUE - A device for filling a transport container with sheet-shaped notes of value includes a feeding unit and a removal unit. Notes of value are fed via a vane wheel for forming a stack. The removal unit has an elastic guiding element which limits the movement of the note of value fed by the vane of the vane wheel and falling down vertically. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20160083213 | POST-HANDLING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A post-handling apparatus having an aligning tray configured to receive a sheet from an image forming apparatus; an ejected sheet tray located adjacent to the aligning tray; a conveyer configured to convey the sheet on the aligning tray to the ejected sheet tray; and a sheet presser configured to press a sheet previously ejected onto the ejected sheet tray against the ejected sheet tray. The sheet presser presses the sheet previously ejected to the ejected sheet tray when a leading edge of a sheet currently conveyed to the ejected sheet tray falls down on the ejected sheet tray, and is in a receding position receding from the ejected sheet tray when a trailing edge of the sheet currently conveyed to the ejected sheet tray falls down on the ejected sheet tray. | 03-24-2016 |
| 271192000 | Counter-rotating supports for lateral margins | 1 |
| 20150102553 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING A UNIQUE VARIABLE STACKING SURFACE FOR SET COMPILING IN IMAGE FORMING DEVICES - A system and method are provided for improving stack integrity for image receiving media substrates in a compiler tray in an image forming device by supplementing the structure of the compiler tray with a pair of auger components configured with a bottom surface that, in conjunction with a stepped support structure in the compiler tray, applies a mechanical leveling force to reduce or otherwise eliminate detrimental effects associated with substrate curl or uneven set build-up in the compiler tray. The vertical compiler components provide an accommodation for localized thickness build-up in compiled image receiving media substrates by one or more processing or post-processing steps. The auger components provide a mechanical pressing force that is intended to level a top surface of the compiled substrates with the configuration of the compiler tray providing the relief area necessary for the accommodation. | 04-16-2015 |
