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US 2003/0164993 A1Published application
Multifunction terminal
AssigneeOlivetti Tecnost S.p.A.
InventorsERIC BACHER, GIUSEPPE BORTOLOTTI
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AssigneeOlivetti Tecnost S.p.A.
InventorsERIC BACHER, GIUSEPPE BORTOLOTTI
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A multifunction terminal is suitable for performing the functions of printing, scanning, copying, fax transmission and reception and/or sorting of documents. It comprises feeding stations (12, 14) for the sheets and the originals, a feeding path (18) with a printer (51) and a data reader (55), and a reception assembly (20) mounted pivotingly on a frame (10) and comprising reception holders (64, 65) and intermediate storing trays (62, 63). The sheets and the originals are fed by feeding members (77) into the storing trays, are retained there and displaced before being fed back into the feeding path where they are turned over for processing, printing, reading of their second face. Accordingly a multifunction terminal is obtained, which is simple to build, compact and reliable, providing a large number of duplex processing functions, all at a very moderate cost price.
Multifunction terminal comprising a frame, at least one sheet feeding station, a routing device with a sheet feeding path and at least one sheet outlet receptacle, wherein it further comprises an installation for the duplex processing of the sheets, capable of effecting printing, scanning, copying, faxing or sorting functions, said installation comprising at least one intermediate storage device arranged so as to temporarily store at least one sheet in processing which it has received from an outlet of the transport path, and a control member suitable for displacing the intermediate storage device so that said sheet in processing may be fed back into at least one entrance of the feeding path, the latter being arranged so that the sheet in processing effects a turning-over between its entrance and its outlet, printing means and a data reader being arranged along this feeding path.
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