Standby tray having curl correction
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYasunobu Terao, Tokihiko Ise, Hajime Yamamoto, Reiji Murakami, Hiroyuki Taki
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Abstract
A sheet post-process apparatus of the present invention, when sending sheets of paper collected on a standby tray to a processing tray, has a standby tray realizing an improved lining capacity of sheets of paper and a pair of tray members for loading ejected sheets of paper is formed so as to project from the wall face of the standby tray.
Claims19
A sheet post-process apparatus, comprising:
- a standby tray for making sheets ejected from an image forming apparatus stand by;
- a processing tray arranged under the standby tray for loading sheets dropped and fed from the standby tray and/or sheets ejected from the image forming apparatus not via the standby tray;
- a processing mechanism for post-processing the sheets loaded on the processing tray;
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- a paper ejection tray for loading the sheets ejected from the processing tray after ending of the post process,
- wherein the standby tray is formed of a pair of tray members for loading ejected sheets from the image forming apparatus, and
- wherein the tray members slide in parallel causing the sheets to drop to the processing tray.
A sheet post-processing method of a sheet post-process apparatus including a pair of tray members forming a standby tray for making sheets ejected from an image forming apparatus stand by, comprising the steps of:
- detecting a curling direction of the sheets ejected and conveyed by the standby tray,
- setting the tray members upward when the sheets are curled downward,
- setting the tray members downward when the sheets are curled upward, and
- sending the sheets from the standby tray to a processing tray.
A sheet post-process apparatus, comprising:
- a standby tray for making sheets ejected from an image forming apparatus stand by;
- a processing tray arranged under the standby tray for loading sheets dropped and fed from the standby tray and/or sheets ejected from the image forming apparatus not via the standby tray;
- means for post-processing the sheets loaded on the processing tray;
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- a paper ejection tray for loading the sheets ejected from the processing tray after ending of the post process,
- wherein the standby tray is formed of a pair of tray members for loading ejected sheets from the image forming apparatus, and
- wherein the tray members slide in parallel causing the sheets to drop to the processing tray.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.