Copying machine
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsHelmut Ettischer, Arno Ebner, Rolf Munz, Raimund Pollak
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Abstract
In a supply magazine of a copying machine closed copy paper packages are arranged in stacked relation. The copy paper has been preconditioned by the manufacturer and provided with a packing that protects the preconditioning. Whenever the copy paper supply for the copying machine has to be refilled, one copy paper package is removed from the supply magazine and advanced to an unpacking device and opened. The unpacked copy paper stack is withdrawn from the opened packing by a withdrawing device and moved to a magazine. The magazine is associated with a sheet separating device which removes individual sheets and advances them to the copying station.
Claims7
In a reproduction machine for making visible representation of information on paper sheets fed by a sheet separating device from a sheet supply, means for refilling said sheet supply comprising:
- a container containing a plurality of fully closed packaged paper stacks;
- means for removing a packaged paper stack from said container;
- means for receiving a packaged paper stack and opening the packaging thereof;
- means for gripping the paper stack within an opened package, said gripping means being movable to a position associated with said sheet supply to remove the stack from its opened package and transport the stack into operative association with the sheet separating device for feeding such sheets seriatem to have information reproduced thereon.
In combination, an electrophotographic reproducing device having means for establishing visible representations of information, means for transferring such representations to sheets, and means for feeding seriatem sheets from a stack to said transferring means to receive such representations;
- and a stack handling apparatus comprising:
- a magazine adapted to store fully closed packaged stacks of sheets;
- means for removing a packaged stack from said magazine;
- means for receiving such removed stack;
- means for opening the packaging of such packaged stack and physically removing the stack from the opened packaging;
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- means for positioning the removed stack in sheet feeding relation to said feeding means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.