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US 5,044,625 AGranted
Active tamper for bidirectional sorter
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorPaula E. Reid
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AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorPaula E. Reid
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A bi-directionally vertically bin indexed multi-bin sheet sorter, for a fixed position sheet output, such as a copier or printer, with a sheet edge alignment registration jogging system for tamping sheets which are in the immediately previously loaded bins directly above or below the bin being loaded (the bin adjacent the fixed sheet output) concurrently with that bin being loaded but without interfering with the feeding of the sheet into that bin. A single jogging system is stationarily mounted adjacent the sheet output to intermittently horizontally move a jogging member (which extends vertically alongside all three of these adjacent sorter bins) into the above and below bins for tamping sheets therein towards a registration position, such as a corner stapling position, but is configured to not extend into the sheet feeding path and to not tamp sheets in the bin being loaded. It may be a thin, lightweight, flexible, flag-shaped member with two active tamping surface portions separated by a central missing portion in the area of the bin being loaded.
In a multi-bin sorter with means for sequentially feeding a sheet of paper or the like in a sheet feeding path from a fixed sheet output such as a copier or printer sequentially into one said bins adjacent thereto, and wherein said bins are reciprocally indexable in two directions relative to said fixed sheet output, to accumulate stacked sheet sets in respective said sorter bins, and further including a sheet edge alignment registration jogging system, the improvement wherein said sheet edge alignment registration jogging system comprises tamping means for tamping those sheets which are in said sorter bins which are above and below said one said bin adjacent to said fixed sheet output into which a sheet is being so fed without interfering with said feeding of a sheet into said one said bin,
In a multi-bin sorter with means for sequentially feeding a sheet of paper or the like in a sheet feeding path from a fixed sheet output such as a copier or printer sequentially into one said bins adjacent thereto, and wherein said bins are reciprocally indexable in two directions relative to said fixed sheet output, to accumulate stacked sheet sets in respective said sorter bins, and further including a sheet edge alignment registration jogging system, the improvement wherein said sheet edge alignment registration jogging system comprises tamping means for tamping those sheets which are in said sorter bins which are above and below said one said bin adjacent to said fixed sheet output into which a sheet is being so fed without interfering with said feeding of a sheet into said one said bin,
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