Alignment means and fixed stapler
AssigneeGradco (Japan) Ltd.
InventorsPeter M. Coombs, Klaus Thogersen
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Abstract
A moving bin sorter of the type in which the trays are individually and collectively moved vertically relative to a sheet inlet location and opened to provide an enlarged sheet entry space for receiving the sheets, has trays displaced in a manner which controls and allows them to move parallel to each other at all times. Alignment and registration units have steel rule type members oppositely extensible into the enlarged sheet entry space with pads on the ends thereof conforming in shape to the enlarged sheet entry space for aligning the edges of various sizes of sheets and moving sets of sheets laterally of the trays to a stapler and returning the stapled sets towards the center of the trays.
Claims8
In a sheet sorting machine of the type including a housing, a set of trays which are arranged in vertically spaced, horizontally extended inclined relation and are vertically movable between closely spaced positions located above and below a sheet entry location forming an inclined and enlarged sheet entry space, including rotary cam means for moving the trays between said positions and forming said enlarged sheet entry space when stationary, cam followers at opposite sides of said trays engageable with said cam means, and aligning and registering means for engagement with the side edges of sheets in said trays, the improvement wherein said aligning and registering means is operable for aligning sets of sheets between the trays forming said sheet entry space and includes a pair of aligning and registering pads, means extensible and retractable in said sheet entry space for moving said pads towards and away from one another, said pads being shaped to conform with the enlarged and inclined space between the trays forming said sheet entry space.
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