Mailbox security door with automatic set lifter
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsBarry P. Mandel, Michael K. Sabocheck, Richard Van Dongen, Harold Halvorson, Jr.
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AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsBarry P. Mandel, Michael K. Sabocheck, Richard Van Dongen, Harold Halvorson, Jr.
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A dynamic "mailboxing" unit and system for separating by users the sheet outputs of various users of a shared users printer (including facsimile receivers, copiers or combination units). It provides for stacking the sheets sequentially outputted from the printer in separate job sets into one or more temporarily and variably assigned "mailboxes" of a "mailboxing" job sorting accessory unit. The "mailboxing" unit has locking "privacy doors" for restricting access to at least some of the mailbox bins, with electrical unlocking of selected bin doors in response to entry of a user access code, and in particular, automatic lifting of one edge of the sheets in that bin in coordination with the bin door opening to assist user removal of their sheets from the bin.
In a mailbox system for collecting the job sheet output of a shared user printer by separating and stacking print jobs of output sheets for respective users on stacking trays of respective mailbox bins of a mailbox module with openable and closeable privacy doors on at least some of said mailbox bins, the improvement comprising:
In a mailboxing system with plural mailbox bins for automatically collecting the job sheet output of a shared user printer by separating and stacking print jobs of output sheets for respective users on stacking trays of respective said mailbox bins, the improvement comprising:
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