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US 5,553,528 AGranted
Slitter for a desktop page printer
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorJohn D. Zoltner
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Abstract
A desktop page printer, such as suitable for printing MICR images, includes a slitter for cutting page-size prints into check-size documents as the page prints are emitted from the printing machine. The slitter can be bypassed by the installation of a side output tray which causes the paper path to be diverted from the slitter.
Claims6
An apparatus for cutting sheets emitted in an output direction from an output slot of a printing machine, comprising:
- a slitter, which receives a sheet fed therethrough in a process direction and creates a cut in the sheet parallel to the process direction;
- a diverter, the diverter being positionable in a first position to direct a sheet emitted from the output slot through the slitter, and alternately positionable in a second position to direct a sheet emitted in the output direction from the output slot away from the slitter;
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- an output tray including a lug thereon, the lug engaging the diverter to position the diverter in the second position.
1 more element
A printing machine, comprising:
- an image forming device, creating an image on a sheet and outputting the sheet having the image thereon;
- a slitter, adapted to receive a sheet fed therethrough in a process direction and create a cut in the sheet parallel to the process direction;
- a diverter, the diverter being positionable in a first position to direct sheets from the image forming device through the slitter, and positionable in a second position to direct sheets from the image forming device away from the slitter;
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- an output tray including a lug thereon, the lug engaging the diverter to position the diverter in one of the first position or the second position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.