Sheet post-process apparatus and waiting tray
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYasunobu Terao, Tokihiko Ise, Hajime Yamamoto, Reiji Murakami, Hiroyuki Taki
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Abstract
A waiting tray is featured in that left and right lower face support members and for supporting left and right lower faces of a sheet transport direction are rotatably mounted on both of side frames and via rotary shafts and, and the left and right lower face support members are rotated downwardly or upwardly to release a standby state of a sheet retained on the waiting tray in a waiting mode.
Claims4
A sheet post-process apparatus, the apparatus comprising:
- a waiting tray which temporarily retains a transported sheet in a waiting mode and releases the retention to drop the sheet;
- a processing tray which bundles the sheets dropped from the waiting tray to carry out predetermined processing and ejects the bundled sheets;
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- a storage tray which holds the bundles of the sheets processed and ejected on the processing tray,
- wherein the waiting tray comprises:
- left and right lower face support members which support left and right lower faces in a sheet transport direction during retention in a waiting mode and release the support of the left and right lower faces during release of the retention;
- a shaft which rotatably supports one side face of the left and right lower face support members;
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- drive means for rotating the left and right lower face support members upwardly or downwardly while the shaft is defined as a rotation center, thereby releasing retention of the sheets.
A waiting tray for temporarily retaining a transported sheet in a waiting mode, followed by releasing the retention, thereby making it possible to drop the sheet on a processing tray, the waiting tray comprising:
- a processing tray which bundles the sheets dropped from the waiting tray to carry out predetermined processing and eject the bundled sheets;
- a shaft which rotatably supports one side face of left and right lower face support members;
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- drive means for rotating the left and right lower face support members upwardly or downwardly while the shaft is defined as a rotation center, thereby releasing retention of the sheets.
A sheet post-process apparatus, the apparatus comprising:
- waiting means for temporarily retaining a transported sheet in a waiting mode and releasing the retention to drop the sheet;
- processing means for bundling the sheets dropped from the waiting means to carry out predetermined processing and eject the bundled sheets;
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- storage means for holding the bundles of sheets processed and ejected by the processing means,
- wherein the waiting means comprises:
- left and right lower face support means for supporting left and right lower faces in a sheet transport direction during retention in a waiting mode and releasing the support of the left and right lower faces during release of the retention;
- shaft means for rotatably supporting one side face of the left and right lower face support means;
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- drive means for rotating the left and right lower face support means upwardly or downwardly while the shaft is defined as a rotation center, thereby releasing retention of the sheets.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.