Cut sheet and computer form document output tray unit
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsAugust Hoyer, John R. Masley, Thomas E. Bitter
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AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsAugust Hoyer, John R. Masley, Thomas E. Bitter
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In a document imaging apparatus in which documents are fed to an imaging station and then fed to a documents catch tray system for automatic document restacking, there is provided a common, shared, restacking catch tray receiving either cut sheet documents or computer form (CF) web documents at the upper surface of the imaging apparatus, rather than dropping the CF web down to a tray below the end of the apparatus. This dual mode restacking catch tray is pivotable from a first position at a generally horizontal tray angle for restacking cut sheet documents into a second position at a preferred angle for fan-folding a computer form web. There is also an upper baffle unit partially overlying the output path to the restacking area, which is pivotable between a first position for planarly guiding cut sheet documents, and a second, raised, position for guiding a computer form web arcuately and then downwardly into the restacking area with an integral CF guide baffle. This upper baffle unit desirably includes an integral gate which automatically selectively gates documents onto two different paths segments, below or over the guide baffle, which gate may be provided by one end of the guide baffle.
In a document imaging apparatus in which both conventional cut sheet documents and computer form web fan-folded documents are fed to an imaging station accessible at the upper surface of said imaging apparatus and then said documents are fed in an output path from said imaging station to a documents catch tray system for automatic document restacking, the improvement in said documents catch tray system comprising:
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