US 4,662,522 AGranted

Paper selecting apparatus

AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

InventorsShin-ichi Kokubun, Hiroshi Sato

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Abstract

A paper selecting apparatus includes an upstream side transportation passage having an inclined bottom surface(s) held in the inclined state in the transverse direction, a lower stage transportation passage extending in continuation from the downstream end of the upstream side transportation passage, an upper stage transportation passage disposed above the lower one with a predetermined distance kept therebetween and a guide wall disposed between the upstream side transportation passage and the upper stage transportation passage for determining the direction of further movement of paper which has been displaced from the upstream side transportation passage to selectively bring it to either of both the upper and lower stage transportation passages in conformance with the width of paper to be selected.

Claims7

Dependent claims

An apparatus for selecting paper in accordance with their size, comprising:

(a) an upstream side transportation passage having an upstream and downstream end, and at least one inclined surface which is inclined at a predetermined inclination angle in a transverse direction with respect to the longitudinal axis of the passage;
(b) a lower stage transportation passage extending from and below the downstream end of said upstream side transportation passage;
(c) an upper stage transportation passage disposed above said lower stage transportation passage and downstream of said upstream side transportation passage;
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(d) a guide wall for determining the direction of paper movement from the upstream side transportation passage, said guide wall being disposed between the upstream side transportation passage and the upper stage transportation pasasge in a longitudinal direction with respect to the upper stage passage to direct the paper to either the upper or lower stage transportation pasasge in accordance with the paper's width.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 06/710,024Filed 11 Mar 1985
Priority: JP 59-4831614 Mar 1984
Granted: 5 May 1987
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

G03G 15/6552
Apparatus which relate to the handling of copy material: means for discharging uncollated sheet copy material, e.g. discharging rollers, exit trays
B07C 5/12
Sorting according to size: characterised by the application to particular articles, not otherwise provided for
B41J 11/58
Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in…:…
B65H 31/24
Pile receivers: multiple or compartmented, e.d. for alternate, programmed, or selective filling