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US 2008/0048386 A1Published application
Sheet rotator
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorWayne R. Smith
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Abstract
A sheet turning apparatus includes a vacuum source used to capture and hold a sheet onto a rotatable disc that is connected to a servo motor. Actuation of the servo motor causes rotation of the disc which in turn rotates the sheet 90°.
Claims20
A reprographic device, comprising:
- an image forming module for forming an image on a copy sheet in a sheet processing module;
- a finishing module usable to compile and stack copy sheets from said image forming module, said finishing module including a booklet maker that receives sheets from said image forming module and forms booklets therefrom;
- and
- a vacuum sheet rotator module positioned between said image forming module and said finishing module, said sheet rotator module being adapted to change orientation of copy sheets from portrait to landscape before entering said booklet maker.
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A device for selectively turning documents which are fed thereto, comprising:
- drive rolls for conveying documents in a process direction along a feed path;
- and
- a vacuum assisted sheet rotation assembly positioned along said feed path to turn a selected document through an angle in its own plane.
A method for selectively rotating documents within a printing apparatus, comprising:
- providing an image forming apparatus for forming an image on a copy sheet in a sheet processing module;
- providing a finishing module usable to compile and stack copy sheets from said image forming apparatus, said finishing module including a booklet maker that receives sheets from said image forming apparatus and forms booklets therefrom;
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- providing a vacuum sheet rotator positioned between said image forming apparatus and said finishing module, said sheet rotator being adapted to change orientation of copy sheets from portrait to landscape before entering said booklet maker.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.