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US 5,951,000 AGranted
Sheet post-processing apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasaaki Sato, Koichi Murakami, Yoshifumi Takehara, Yoshinori Isobe, Norifumi Miyake, Kenichi Hayashi, Hiromichi Tsujino
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Abstract
A sheet post-processing apparatus includes a plurality of bin trays arranged in multiple levels with predetermined intervals; stacking device supported in said apparatus so as to be moved in an arrangement direction of the plurality of bins; discharging device for discharging a sheet; and transferring device for transferring the sheet to said stacking device from the bin tray having completed sheet reception.
Claims43
A sheet post-processing apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of bin trays arranged in multiple levels with predetermined intervals;
- discharging means for discharging a sheet to said bin trays;
- stacking means supported upstream of said charging means in said apparatus so as to be moved in an arrangement direction of said plurality of bin trays;
- and
- transferring means for transferring the sheet to said stacking means from a bin tray having completed sheet reception,
- wherein said plurality of bin trays are divided into a plurality of groups, and said stacking means can be set at each sheet transfer position for each bin tray group.
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A sheet post-processing apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of bin trays arranged in multiple levels at predetermined intervals;
- discharging means for discharging a sheet to said bin trays;
- stacking means supported in said apparatus so as to be moved in a bin arrangement direction of said plurality of bins;
- sheet binding means movable in the bin arrangement direction in synchronism with said stacking means;
- and
- transferring means for transferring the sheet to said stacking means from a bin tray having completed sheet reception,
- wherein said plurality of bin trays are divided into a plurality of groups, and said stacking means can be set at each sheet transfer position for each bin group.
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A sheet post-processing apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of bin trays arranged in multiple levels at predetermined intervals;
- discharging means for discharging a sheet to said bin trays;
- stacking means supported upstream of said discharging means in said apparatus so as to be moved in a bin arrangement direction of said plurality of bin trays;
- and
- transferring means for transferring the sheet to said stacking means from a bin tray having completed sheet reception,
- wherein said discharging means comprises a plurality of discharging openings and a plurality of sheet delivery paths, and said stacking means is disposed in a space surrounded by the plurality of sheet delivery paths.
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An image forming apparatus comprising:
- image forming means;
- feeding means for feeding medium in the form of a sheet to said image forming means;
- a plurality of bin trays arranged in multiple levels at predetermined intervals;
- discharging means for discharging the sheet to said bin trays, on which an image has been formed;
- stacking means supported upstream of said discharging means in said apparatus so as to be moved in a bin arrangement direction of said plurality of bin trays;
- and
- transferring means for transferring the sheet to said stacking means from a bin tray having completed sheet reception,
- wherein said plurality of bin trays are divided into a plurality of groups, and said stacking means can be set at each sheet transfer position for each bin tray group.
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A sheet post-processing apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of bin trays arranged in multiple levels with predetermined intervals;
- discharging means for discharging a sheet into said plurality of bin trays;
- stacking means supported on the upstream side of said sheet discharging means so as to be moved in an arrangement direction of said plurality of bins and so as to be set at a plurality of stacking positions faced to a group of said bin trays having received the sheets;
- moving means for moving the plurality of bin trays step by step in the arrangement direction;
- and
- transferring means for transferring the sheet to said stacking means from said bin tray having completed sheet reception.
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An image forming apparatus comprising:
- image forming means;
- feeding means for feeding a medium in the form of a sheet to said image forming means;
- a plurality of bin trays arranged in multiple levels with predetermined intervals;
- discharging means for discharging the sheet, on which an image has been formed;
- stacking means supported on an upstream side of the sheet set discharging means so as to be moved in an arrangement direction of said plurality of bins and so as to be set at a plurality of stacking positions faced to a group of said bin trays having received the sheets;
- moving means for moving the plurality of bin trays step by step in the arrangement directions;
- and
- transferring means for transferring the sheet to said stacking means from said bin tray having completed sheet reception.
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A sheet post-processing apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of bin trays arranged in multiple levels with predetermined intervals;
- discharging means for discharging a sheet to said bin trays;
- stacking means supported in said apparatus so as to be moved in an arrangement direction of said plurality of bins and so as to be set at a plurality of stacking positions faced to a group of said bin trays having received the sheets;
- binding means movable in the bin tray arrangement direction so as to be set at a plurality of binding positions faced to a group of said bin trays having received the sheets;
- moving means for moving the plurality of bin trays step by step in the arrangement direction;
- and
- controlling means for controlling said binding means and stacking means to permit a set of the sheets in the bin tray having completed sheet reception to be bound and stacked.
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An image forming apparatus comprising:
- image forming means;
- feeding means for feeding a sheet to said image forming means;
- a plurality of bin trays arranged in multiple levels with predetermined intervals;
- discharging means for discharging the sheet, on which an image has been formed, into said plurality of bin trays;
- stacking means supported in said apparatus so as to be movable along said plurality of bin trays in an direction of the bin tray arrangement and so as to be set at a plurality of stacking positions faced to a group of said bin trays having received the sheets;
- sheet binding means movable in the bin tray arrangement direction so as to be set at a plurality of binding positions faced to a group of said bin trays having received the sheets;
- moving means for moving the plurality of bin trays step of step in the arrangement direction;
- and
- controlling means for activating said binding means and stacking means so that the sheets in the bin tray having completed sheet set reception are bound and stacked.
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A sheet post-processing apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of bin trays, being arranged in multiple levels with predetermined intervals;
- binding means movable along said plurality of bin trays in a bin tray arrangement direction so as to be set at a plurality of binding positions faced to a group of bin trays having received the sheets;
- driving means for driving said plurality of bin trays by one bin level at a time;
- and
- controlling means for activating said binding means so that said binding means binds sheet sets in a group of bin trays, for which the sheet discharging operation is completed.
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An image forming apparatus comprising:
- image forming means;
- feeding means for feeding a sheet form;
- a plurality of bin trays, being arranged in multiple levels with predetermined intervals;
- discharging means for discharging the sheet, on which an image has been formed, into said bin tray;
- binding means movable along said plurality of bin trays in a direction of bin tray arrangement so as to be set at a plurality of binding positions faced to a group of said bin trays having received the sheets;
- driving means for moving each of the bin trays by one bin level at a time;
- and
- controlling means for controlling said binding means so that said binding means binds sheet sets in each bin tray group, for which the sheet discharging operation has been completed.
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A sheet post-processing apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of sheet receiving means for storing a sheet or a set of sheets discharged from a sheet outputting apparatus which outputs the sheet;
- a plurality of sheet delivering sections for delivering the sheet onto said sheet receiving means;
- sheet set advancing means for advancing the sheet set stored by said sheet receiving means;
- sheet post-processing means for processing the advanced sheet set;
- and
- stacking means for storing in a stack the post-processed sheet sets, wherein said sheet set advancing means, said sheet post-processing means, and said stacking means are disposed between a sheet discharging opening of the sheet outputting apparatus and said plurality of sheet receiving means.
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A sheet post-processing apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of bin trays arranged in multiple levels at predetermined intervals;
- discharging means for discharging a sheet to said bin trays;
- stacking means supported upstream of said discharging means in said apparatus;
- and
- transferring means for transferring the sheet to said stacking means from a bin tray having completed sheet reception,
- wherein said discharging means includes a plurality of discharging openings and a plurality of sheet delivery paths, and said stacking means is disposed in a space surrounded by the plurality of sheet delivery paths.
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A sheet post-processing apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of bin trays arranged in multiple levels with predetermined intervals;
- discharging means for discharging a sheet to said bin trays;
- stacking means movable in the bin tray arrangement direction so as to be set as a plurality of stacking positions and to face a group of said bin trays having received the sheets;
- binding means movable in the bin tray arrangement direction so as to be set at a plurality of binding positions and to face a group of said bin trays having received the sheets;
- moving means for moving the plurality of bin trays step by step in the arrangement direction;
- and
- controlling means for controlling said binding means and stacking means to permit a set of the sheets in the bin tray having completed sheet reception to be bound and stacked.
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An image forming apparatus comprising:
- image forming means;
- feeding means for feeding a sheet to said image forming means;
- a plurality of bin trays arranged in multiple levels with predetermined intervals;
- discharging means for discharging the sheet, on which an image has been formed, into said plurality of bin trays;
- stacking means movable in the bin tray arrangement direction so as to be set at a plurality of stacking positions and to face a group of said bin trays having received the sheets;
- sheet binding means movable in the bin tray arrangement direction so as to be set at a plurality of binding positions and to face a group of said bin trays having received the sheets;
- moving means for moving the plurality of bin trays step by step in the arrangement direction;
- and
- controlling means for activating said binding means and stacking means so that the sheets in the bin tray having completed sheet reception are bound and stacked.
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A sheet post-processing apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of bin trays arranged in multiple levels at predetermined intervals;
- discharging means for discharging a sheet to said bin trays;
- stacking means movable upstream of said discharging means in a bin tray arrangement direction so as to be set at a plurality of stacking positions and to face a group of said bin trays having received the sheets;
- binding means movable in the bin tray arrangement direction so as to be set at a plurality of binding positions and to face a group of said bin trays having received the sheets;
- controlling means for controlling said binding means and stacking means to permit a set of the sheets in the bin tray having completed sheet reception to be bound and stacked.
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A sheet post-processing apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of bin trays arranged in multiple levels with predetermined intervals and divided into two groups;
- two discharging means faced to each groups and for discharging a sheet to said bin trays;
- stacking means movable in the bin tray arrangement direction so as to be set at two stacking positions and to face a group of said bin trays having received the sheets;
- binding means movable in the bin tray arrangement direction so as to be set at two binding positions and to face a group of said bin trays having received the sheets;
- moving means for moving the plurality of bin trays in each group step by step in the arrangement direction;
- and
- controlling means for controlling said binding means and stacking means to permit a set of the sheets in the bin tray having completed sheet reception to be bound and stacked.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.