Sheet transport system for an image-forming apparatus including a plural path sheet piling system
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorNobuyoshi Seki
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Abstract
A finisher system for image formed sheets transported from an image forming apparatus. A finisher finishes the image formed sheets. A direct sheet feeding path feeds the image formed sheets to a sheet stacker. A sheet finishing path branches from the direct sheet path and transports the image forming sheets to the sheet stacker by way of the finisher. A sheet piling system is set upstream from a turning point at which the sheet finishing path branches from the direct sheet feeding path along the sheet transport direction and piles up the image formed sheets. A stopper is set upstream from the turning point to temporally trap the image formed sheets.
Claims29
A finisher system for image formed sheets transported from an image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a finisher for finishing the image formed sheets;
- a direct sheet feeding path for feeding the image formed sheets to a sheet stacker;
- a sheet finishing path branched from said direct sheet path for transporting the image forming sheets to said sheet stacker by way of said finisher;
- a sheet piling system set upstream from a turning point at which said sheet finishing path branches from said direct sheet feeding path for piling up the image formed sheets, wherein said sheet piling system includes plural sheet suspending paths which each suspend a respective sheet and which each include a sheet transport device;
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- a stopper set upstream from said turning point for temporally trapping said image formed sheets.
A finishing system for image formed sheets transported from an image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a finishing means for finishing the image formed sheets;
- a direct sheet feeding path means for directly feeding the image formed sheets to a sheet stack means;
- a sheet finishing path means for transporting the image forming sheets to said sheet stack means by way of said finishing means;
- a sheet piling means for piling up the image formed sheets, wherein said sheet piling system includes plural sheet suspending path means which each suspend a respective sheet and which each include a sheet transport;
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- a stopper means for temporally trapping said image formed sheets.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.