Actuator and dual bin size belt system for multiple size media transport
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsDouglas K Herrmann, John P Parson, Robert L Powell
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Abstract
This is a media transport system that can accommodate various size media or sheets. The system has a series of even sized bins that can accommodate both small and large sheets. Above the bins is located a sheet diverter that when lowered diverts the small sheets into a small portion of the even sized bin. When the sheet diverter is raised, it permits the large sheets to be unblocked by it and fall into the largest portion of the even sized bin. When the large sheets are housed in the bin, they are supported on a short pusher which is located between two large pushers. Both the small and large sheets are in substantial collated alignment when housed in the bins.
Claims16
A media transport system for multiple size media transport comprising:
- a bin transport belt having on its upper face a plurality of collection, smaller and larger, bins and pushers,
- said collection bins having on each terminal ends tall pushers, and having at a point between said tall pushers a short pusher,
- an imaged media belt transport located at a forward portion of said transport belt configured to deposit large or small marked media (or cards) in said collection bins, and
- positioned above said collection bins and in feeding relationship to said card transport is an actuator with a diverter paddle.
A media transport system for multiple size media transport comprising:
- a bin transport belt having on its upper face a plurality of smaller and larger collection bins and pushers,
- said collection bins having on each terminal ends tall pushers, and having at a point between said tall pushers a small pusher,
- an imaged media belt transport located at a forward portion of said transport belt configured to deposit large and small marked media (or cards) in said collection bins, and
- positioned above said collection bins and in feeding relationship to said card transport is an actuator with a diverter paddle,
- wherein said bins are configured on said transport belt where every other pusher is said tall pusher and the remainder said small pusher, and
- said bins being of substantially uniform length throughout said bin transport belt and said bins configured to hold either said small cards or said large cards in a substantially collated arrangement.
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