Sheet sorting and stacking apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKiyomichi Ichikawa
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Abstract
A sheet sorting and stacking apparatus for sorting and storing sheet materials into plural storage positions, includes a pair of sheet conveyors for transporting sheet materials from a sheet entrance to the storage positions, an auxiliary member provided in the transport path and adapted to perform a swinging motion thereby being released together with one of the conveyors from the other so as to widen the space in the transport path and releasing device for releasing the auxiliary member upon detection of an abnormality in the sheet transport.
Claims3
A sheet sorting and stacking apparatus for sorting and stacking sheet materials into plural storage positions, comprising:
- upper and lower transport means for transporting sheet materials from a sheet entrance to said storage positions;
- an auxiliary member pivotable to be released together with one of said upper and lower transport means from the other of said upper and lower transport means so as to provide a widened sheet material transport path;
- means for detecting the occurrence of abnormal sheet transportation and releasing said auxiliary member upon the detection;
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- means for stopping operation of said upper and lower transport means and allowing one of said upper and lower transport means to function to stack the sheet materials, after said detecting and releasing means detects the occurrence of abnormal sheet transportation and releases said auxiliary member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.