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AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsBarry P. Mandel, John W. Daughton, Charles D. Rizzolo, John D. Hower, Jr., Don S. Walker
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In a sheet stacking system with an array of plural sheet stacking bins with sheet entrances for stacking plural flimsy print substrate sheets from a printed sheets output path into selected bins, with a sheet feeding input path system for feeding selected sheets into a selected bin to be stacked therein, with a bin fullness indicator system for indicating that the estimated height of the stack has reached a preset allowable maximum, and a stacking control system controlled by the bin fullness indicator system to control the sheet feeding input path; there is a single stack height sensing system including a stack height sensor for respective measurements of the actual stack height of the stack of sheets in respective bins for the bin fullness indicator system, a movable carriage system for moving this single stack height sensing system from adjacent to one bin to adjacent another bin for respective measurements, the stack height sensor including a movable sensing element extendable by an intermittent actuator into the bin then adjacent to the movable carriage system to detect the stack height therein. A signal generator is responsive to the sensing element position to provide control signals to the stacking control system.
In a sheet stacking system with an array of plural sheet stacking bins with sheet entrances for stacking plural flimsy print substrate sheets from a printed sheets output path into selected said sheet stacking bins, including a sheet feeding input path system for feeding selected said sheets into a selected said sheet stacking bin to be stacked therein, and further including a bin fullness indicator system for indicating that the estimated height of the stack of said sheets stacked in a said sheet stacking bin has reached a preset allowable maximum, and further including a stacking control system controlled by said bin fullness indicator system to control said sheet feeding input path system for said bins;
In a shared users multiple bin mailboxing system adapted to receive plural print jobs of plural sheets for plural different recipients stacked in individual print job storage mailbox bins, said mailbox bins being electronically assignable to different respective recipients, and said mailbox bins having a limited preset maximum sheet stacking capacity, and said mailboxing system further having a sheet distribution system for automatically variably directing and stacking into different individual said mailbox bins the respective plural print jobs of different recipients, and further including a bin fullness indicator system for indicating that the number or height of the stack of said sheets stacked in a said sheet stacking bin has reached a preset allowable maximum, and further including a stacking control system controlled by said bin fullness indicator system to control said sheet distribution system for said bins;
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