Apparatus for transferring paper sheets
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorNobuo Inoue
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Abstract
An apparatus for transferring paper sheets includes a supply device which supplies sheets, a supply unit which is provided as part of the supply device and forms a supply outlet through which the sheets are ejected, a receiving device which is connected to the supply device in such a manner as to be vertically movable relative to the supply device, and a receiving unit which is provided as part of the receiving device and forms a receiving inlet by which the sheets are received, wherein one of the supply unit and the receiving unit is configured to be vertically movable, and changes a vertical position thereof in response to relative positional relationship between the supply device and the receiving device.
Claims12
An apparatus for transferring paper sheets, comprising:
- a supply device which supplies sheets;
- a supply unit which is provided as part of said supply device and forms a supply outlet through which the sheets are ejected;
- a receiving device which is connected to said supply device in such a manner as to be vertically movable relative to said supply device;
- and
- a receiving unit which is provided as part of said receiving device and forms a receiving inlet by which the sheets are received,
- wherein one of said supply unit and said receiving unit is configured to be vertically movable, and changes a vertical position thereof in response to relative positional relationship between said supply device and said receiving device.
An apparatus for receiving paper sheets, to be connected to a supply device that supplies the paper sheets, comprising:
- a connecting unit for connecting said supply device to said apparatus in such a manner that said supply device is vertically movable relative to said apparatus;
- and
- a receiving unit which forms a receiving inlet for receiving the sheets supplied from said supply device, and is configured to be vertically movable in response to relative positional relationship between said supply device and said receiving device.
An apparatus for forming images, to be connected to a supply device that supplies the paper sheets, comprising:
- an image forming unit which forms images on the sheets;
- a connecting unit for connecting said supply device to said apparatus in such a manner that said supply device is vertically movable relative to said apparatus;
- and
- a receiving unit which forms a receiving inlet for receiving the sheets supplied from said supply device, and is configured to be vertically movable in response to relative positional relationship between said supply device and said receiving device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.