Orbiting nip sheet output with faceup or facedown stacking and integral gate

In a method of transporting sheets in an output path to a downstream sheet stacking area with opposing first and second sheet feeding rollers forming a sheet transporting nip, including engaging the leading edge of a sheet delivered to said nip while producing a relative orbital motion of said opposing rollers to pivot said nip and thereby change the angular direction of motion of the leading edge of the sheet while the sheet is in said nip;

• the improvement wherein said step of producing said orbital motion of said opposing rollers to pivot said nip further includes plural mode selectable operation of said orbital motion to provide at least a selection between faceup and facedown stacking of the sheets in the sheet stacking area by, in a first said selected mode, inverting the leading edge of the sheet as it is in said nip by a first selection orbital motion of said nip;
• and in a second said selected mode, not inverting the sheet, by moving a deflector gate into said output path upstream of said nip to deflect sheets away from said nip and to deflect the sheet into a sheet stacking area without inversion wherein said moving of said deflector gate into said output path is done by a second selected orbital motion of said nip sufficient to mechanically engage said deflector gate to provide said movement of said deflector gate into said output path.