US 9,327,924 B2Granted

Sheet containing device and image forming apparatus

AssigneeOki Data Corporation

InventorHiroki Ishikura

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Abstract

A sheet containing device of the invention includes a sheet containing unit for containing a sheet, a regulation member arranged movably in a prescribed moving direction for regulating a position of the sheet contained in the sheet containing unit, a first engaging portion provided at the regulation member, and a first engaged portion provided at the sheet containing unit for holding the regulation member at plural holding positions by engaging the first engaging portion. One of the first engaging and engaged portions has plural engagement grooves arranged with first intervals, and the other of the first engaging and engaged portions has plural engagement projections arranged with second intervals engageable with the plural engagement grooves. An interval of the plural holding positions is equal to the first interval whereas the second interval is an integral multiplication equal to or greater than two of the first interval.

Claims22

Dependent claims

A sheet containing device comprising:

a sheet containing unit for containing a sheet;
a regulation member arranged movably in a prescribed moving direction with respect to the sheet containing unit for regulating a position of the sheet contained in the sheet containing unit in the moving direction;
a first engaging portion provided at the regulation member;
and
a first engaged portion provided at the sheet containing unit for holding the regulation member at plural holding positions in the moving direction by engaging the first engaging portion,
wherein one of the first engaging portion and the first engaged portion has a plurality of engagement grooves arranged with first intervals in the moving direction,
wherein the other of the first engaging portion and the first engaged portion has a plurality of engagement projections arranged with second intervals in the moving direction, the engagement projections engaging the plural engagement grooves, and
wherein an interval of the plural holding positions is equal to the first interval whereas the second interval is an integral multiplication equal to or greater than two of the first interval.

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A sheet containing device comprising:

a sheet containing unit for containing a sheet;
a regulation member arranged movably in a prescribed moving direction with respect to the sheet containing unit for regulating a position of the sheet contained in the sheet containing unit in the moving direction;
first and second engaging portions provided at the regulation member;
and
first and second engaged portions provided at the sheet containing unit for holding the regulation member at plural holding positions in the moving direction by engaging the first and second engaging portions, respectively,
wherein the first and second engaging portions are structured so that after the first engaging portion disengages from the first engaged portion according to movement of the first engaging portion in a direction apart from the first engaged portion upon reception of external force, the second engaging portion moves in a direction apart from the second engaged portion upon receiving force of the movement of the first engaging portion to disengage the second engaging portion from the second engaged portion.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/608,259Filed 29 Jan 2015
Priority: JP 2014-01640031 Jan 2014
Published: US 2015/0298921 A122 Oct 2015
Granted: 3 May 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

B65H 1/04
Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated: adapted to support articles substantially horizontally, e.g. for…
B65H 1/266
With auxiliary supports to facilitate introduction or renewal of the pile: support fully or partially removable from the handling machine, e.g.…
B65H 9/00
Registering
B65H 31/20
Pile receivers: adjustable for different article sizes