Method and device for separably depositing sheets in a stack
OwnerFriedhelm Steinhilberinventor
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Abstract
The device includes a magazine for storing divider films to separate sheets output by an office machine and deposited directly in stacks, wherein the divider films are placed between discrete groups of associated sheets. In order to be able to associate the sheet groups separated by the divider films with particular users of the office machine, different types of divider films, for example differently colored divider films, are used. The different types of divider films are identified by an automatically detectable identifying code and are deposited onto the sheet stack according to this identifying code.
Claims20
A device for separating a stack of sheets ejected by an office machine into sheet groups in accordance with a process request, comprising:
- a plurality of divider films, each one of said divider films having identifying information thereon corresponding to a particular process request;
- magazine means for storing said divider films to enable said divider films to be deposited on the stack for identifying the sheet groups;
- and
- selection means responsive to the process request for selectively retrieving said divider films from said magazine means to enable a selected one of said divider films to be deposited on the stack for each one of the sheet groups;
- wherein said selected one of said divider films identifies a particular sheet group corresponding to said particular process request.
A method for separating a stack of sheets ejected by an office machine into sheet groups in accordance with a process request, comprising:
- using a plurality of divider films, each one of said divider films having identifying information thereon corresponding to a particular process request;
- storing said plurality of divider films in a magazine;
- selectively retrieving said divider films from said magazine in response to the process request;
- depositing a selected one of said divider films on the stack for each one of the sheet groups;
- and,
- wherein said selected one of said divider films identifies a particular sheet group corresponding to said particular process request.
In a workgroup including a plurality of workstations coupled to a common central printer, having an output tray, a print job separator, comprising:
- a plurality of divider films for separating print jobs based on print job requests received from the plurality of workstations, each one of said divider films having information thereon corresponding to one of the workstations;
- magazine means disposed on the central printer above the output tray for storing said divider films;
- and
- shunt means coupled to said magazine means for supplying a selected one of said divider films from said magazine means, said information on said selected one of said divider films corresponding to the workstation supplying said print job request.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.