Flexible sheet storage device
AssigneeScitex Corporation Ltd.
InventorEliyahu Gedalovitz
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Abstract
A flexible sheet storage device includes a releasable holder located within a container to receive the leading edge of each sheet as it is inserted via a slot into the container, and an angularly displaceable mounting for a releasable holder effective to angularly displace the releasable holder, and the leading edge of the sheet held thereby, a sufficient angular distance until the leading edge of the inserted sheet passes the trailing edge of any previously inserted sheets before the holder releases the leading edge of the inserted sheet and permits the inserted sheet to fall by gravity on top of previously inserted sheets.
Claims20
A flexible sheet storage device, comprising:
- a container including a top wall formed with an inlet slot for inserting sheets to be stored, and further including bottom and side walls for receiving the sheets inserted through said inlet slot;
- a holder located within said container to releasably receive the leading edge of each sheet as it is inserted via said slot into the container;
- an angularly displaceable mounting for said holder effective to angularly displace the holder, and the leading edge of a sheet held by the holder, a sufficient angular distance until the leading edge of an inserted sheet passes the trailing edge of any previously inserted sheets before the holder releases the leading edge of the inserted sheet and permits the inserted sheet to fall by gravity on top of previously inserted sheets;
- and a fixed stop engageable with the leading edge of a sheet held by said holder after the sheet has been displaced said sufficient angular distance, for stripping the sheet from the holder.
A flexible sheet storage device, comprising:
- a container including a top wall formed with an inlet slot for inserting sheets to be stored, and further including bottom and side walls for receiving the sheets inserted through said inlet slot;
- a holder located within said container to releasably receive the leading edge of each sheet as it is inserted via said slot into the container;
- and an angularly displaceable mounting for said holder effective to angularly displace the holder, and the leading edge of a sheet held by the holder, a sufficient angular distance until the leading edge of an inserted sheet passes the trailing edge of any previously inserted sheets before the holder releases the leading edge of the inserted sheet and permits the inserted sheet to fall by gravity on top of previously inserted sheets;
- said holder comprising a guide member formed with a pair of projections spaced from each other in the direction in which the guide member is angularly displaced by said mounting, to define, between said projections, a recess for receiving and for releasably holding the leading edge of each inserted sheet;
- said guide member including at least one toothed disc formed with a plurality of teeth around its circumference;
- said angularly displaceable mounting being a rotary mounting for said guide member.
A flexible sheet storage device, comprising:
- a container including a top wall formed with an inlet slot for inserting sheets to be stored, and further including bottom and side walls for receiving the sheets inserted through said inlet slot;
- a holder located within said container to releasably receive the leading edge of each sheet as it is inserted via said slot into the container;
- and an angularly displaceable mounting for said holder effective to angularly displace the holder, and the leading edge of a sheet held by the holder, a sufficient angular distance until the leading edge of an inserted sheet passes the trailing edge of any previously inserted sheets before the holder releases the leading edge of the inserted sheet and permits the inserted sheet to fall by gravity on top of previously inserted sheets;
- both said bottom and side walls being specially configured to increase their surface areas for receiving the sheets as each is inserted into the container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.