Modular multifunctional mailbox unit with interchangeable sub-modules
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsBarry P. Mandel, Gerald A. Buddendeck
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AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsBarry P. Mandel, Gerald A. Buddendeck
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A modular, flexibly adaptable "mailboxing" unit and system for both sequentially processing and separating, into a superposed array of plural separate mailbox print job sheet collection bins or trays, the sheet outputs of various users of various printers (including facsimile receivers, copiers or combination units). The mailbox module has left and right side printer inputs and vertical sheet transport input paths therefrom to at least one vertically modular replaceable sub-module for operating sequentially on sheets in the mailbox module sheet path prior to the separating and feeding of sheets into the mailboxes. The replaceable sub-module comprises at least one of a sheet rotator, a sheet inserter, a sheet inverter, a sheet folder, or a sheet hole punch. The mailbox module then provides a third vertical sheet transport path from the replaceable sub-module past the array of mailboxes to provide a bin selection path for the sub-module processed sheets, with optional compiling and finishing.
In a mailbox module with sheet transport paths for separately collecting the print job sheets outputted by a shared user printer and selectably separating and feeding said print jobs of respective users into a superposed array of plural descrete mailbox print job sheet collection trays, the improvement wherein:
In a mailbox module with sheet transport paths for separately collecting the print job sheets outputted by a shared user printer and selectably separating and feeding said print jobs of respective users into a superposed array of plural descrete mailbox print job sheet collection trays, the improvement wherein:
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