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US 2006/0067771 A1Published application
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 has left and right lower face support members releasably provided in left and right directions, the support members supporting left and right lower faces in a transport direction of a sheet transported to a waiting tray, and an upper face slash member which slashes an upper face of the sheet transported to the waiting tray to drop the sheet onto a processing tray.
Claims6
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 sheets dropped from the waiting tray to carry out predetermined processing, and ejects the sheets;
- and
- a storage tray which holds the bundle of 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;
- and
- an upper face slash member allocated upwardly of the left and right lower face support members, the slash member slashing an upper face of the sheet transported to the waiting tray to drop the sheet onto the processing tray.
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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 sheets dropped from the waiting means to carry out predetermined processing and ejecting the sheets;
- and
- storage means for holding the bundle 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;
- and
- upper face slash means allocated upwardly of the left and right lower face support means, for slashing an upper face of the sheet transported to the waiting means to drop the sheet onto the processing means.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.