Sheet receiving and stacking apparatus
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorJohn E. Smith
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Abstract
Apparatus for selectively stacking, or inverting and stacking, sheets moving seriatim along a travel path with a given facial orientation. The apparatus comprises a sheet supporting surface for supporting and stacking sheets in a facial orientation effectively reversed from that of such sheets in the travel path, and a guide selectively movable to a first position along the travel path or a second position in the travel path. In the first position, the guide directs sheets onto the supporting surface; while in the second position the guide itself receives and stacks the sheets, remote from the supporting surface, in a facial orientation the same as that of such sheets in the travel path.
Claims11
Apparatus for selectively stacking, or inverting and stacking, sheets moving seriatim along a travel path with a given facial orientation, said apparatus comprising:
- means defining a sheet supporting surface for supporting and stacking sheets in a facial orientation effectively reversed from that of such sheets in the travel path;
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- means selectively movable (i) to a first position along the travel path for guiding the sheets onto said supporting surface or (ii) to a second position in the travel path for itself receiving and stacking the sheets, remote from said supporting surface, in a facial orientation the same as that of such sheets in the travel path.
For use with a copier for feeding receiver sheets of a sequentially ordered multipage document seriatim along a travel path, with a given facial orientation, in a first sequential order or in a second sequential order, apparatus for stacking such sheets from said path so that the sheets are stacked in a preselected sequential order irrespective of the given facial orientation or the order in which they are fed, said apparatus comprising:
- a bin having at least one wall for supporting sheets delivered thereto in stacked relationship in a facial orientation effectively reversed from that of such sheets in the travel path;
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- means, selectively movable (i) to a first position along the travel path for guiding sheets fed seriatim in said first order toward said wall to be stacked in said preselected order, or (ii) to a second position in the travel path for itself receiving and stacking sheets fed seriatim in said second order in said preselected sequential order in a facial orientation the same as that of such sheets in the travel path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.