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AssigneeNisca Corporation Yamanashi-ken
InventorsTsuyoshi Asahara, Hirofumi Kaneko, Kazuaki Sano, Takashi Saito, Hideki Mimura
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A sheet handling device for accommodating, aligning and storing sheets fed from an image forming apparatus such as a copying machine is provided with front-side and rear-side aligning members for pressing the sheets stacked on a first storage means between the aligning members to stably and exactly align the stacked sheets. The front side aligning member is movable vertically or rotatable to open a sheet transferring passage so as to enable a sheet aligning mechanism in the sheet handling device to be operated in a small space, and thus, made compact. While transferring the aligned sheets from the first storage means to a second storage means, the aligned sheets are stably held by the front-side aligning member being in soft contact with the upper surface of the sheets being transferred.
A sheet handling device comprising a first storage means for stacking one or more sheets having leading edges fed from an image forming apparatus thus forming a stack with a top surface, means for transferring the sheets stacked in said first storage means, a second storage means for storing the sheets transferred from said first storage means by said sheet transferring means, said second storage means being movable in a direction crossing transversely to said top surface of said sheets stacked on said second storage means, sheet aligning means to be brought into contact with said leading edges of said sheets for aligning the sheets stacked on said first storage means to true up said leading edges of said sheets, and moving means for causing said sheet aligning means to be movable between a sheet aligning position at which all of said sheets stacked on said first storage means are aligned by contacting leading edges of said sheets with said sheet aligning means and a retreating position apart from said sheet aligning position in a direction crossing transversely with a surface of said sheets stacked on said first storage means, said sheet aligning means being movable and thereby separated from said leading edges of said sheets stacked on said first storage means in a sheet discharging direction in which said sheets are transferred by said sheet transferring means.
A sheet handling device comprising a first storage means for stacking one or more sheets having leading edges fed from an image forming apparatus thus forming a stack with a top surface, means for transferring the sheets stacked on said first storage means, a second storage means for storing the sheets transferred from said first storage means by said sheet transferring means, said second storage means being movable in a direction crossing transversely to said top surface of said sheets stacked on said second storage means, and front-side and rear-side aligning members disposed in front of and behind the sheets stacked on said first storage means, said front-side aligning member being movable between a sheet aligning position at which all of said sheets stacked on said first storage means are aligned by contacting leading edges of said sheets with and a retreating position apart from said sheet aligning position in a direction crossing transversely with said top surface of said sheets stacked on said first storage means, said front-side aligning member being movable and thereby separated from said leading edges of said sheets stacked on said storage means in a sheet discharging direction in which said sheets are transferred by said sheet transferring means.
A sheet handling device comprising a first storage means for storing a stack of one or more sheets having leading edges fed from an image forming apparatus thus forming a stack with a top surface, means for transferring the sheets stored in said first storage means, a second storage means for storing the sheets transferred from said first storage means by said sheet transferring means, said second storage means being movable in a direction crossing transversely with said top surface of said sheets stacked on said second storage means, and means for restraining a succeeding sheet overlaying said stack of sheets to be transferred from said first storage means toward said second storage means by said transferring means.
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