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US 6,250,631 B1Granted
Sheet handling unit
AssigneeKyocera Mita Corporation
InventorsKatsuhiko Hanamoto, Nobuhiro Nishioka, Yohichiro Irie
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Abstract
A sheet handling unit including a processing station having a stapling mechanism for stapling a plurality of sheets; a plurality of mail trays for receiving sheets transported from the processing station; and a bulk tray for receiving sheets transported from the processing station. The processing station is fixedly provided in a sheet handling unit body. The sheets transported from the processing station are delivered switchably to any of the mail trays or to the bulk tray.
Claims11
A sheet handling unit, comprising:
- a unit body;
- a processing station fixedly provided in the unit body and having a stapling mechanism for stapling a plurality of sheets;
- a plurality of mail trays fixedly attached to the unit body for receiving sheets transported thereto from the processing station;
- a bulk tray attached in a vertically movable manner to the unit body for receiving sheets transported thereto from the processing station;
- and
- a sheet delivering mechanism for delivering sheets transported thereto from the processing station switchably to any of the mail trays or to the bulk tray.
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A sheet handling system comprising:
- a sheet post-processing unit including
- a main body, and
- a stationary processing station for performing a predetermined process on sheets, the stationary processing station including a stapling mechanism for stapling a plurality of sheets, and a sheet stacking section;
- and
- a sheet handling unit mountable to the sheet post-processing unit, the sheet handling unit including
- a unit body attachable to a top of the main body of the sheet post-processing unit,
- a plurality of sheet trays which are each capable of receiving sheets,
- an internal sheet transporting mechanism for delivering a sheet from the processing station selectively to any of the plural sheet trays, and
- a path switching mechanism for switching a transport path to guide a sheet introduced into the sheet post-processing unit to the internal sheet transporting mechanism.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.