Method for increasing the capacity of high capacity feeder trays for uneven stock
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsJohn P Parsons, James M Maryniak, John M Palmer, John D Ormonde
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Abstract
A method for feeding uneven media from a high capacity feeder includes rotating the pages in a stack 180° every 100-250 pages. This is only done with non-flat pages, such as, envelopes, pages with labels thereon, etc., which create tilted stacks and limit the number of pages that can be placed in the high capacity feeder. Rotating the pages 180° distributes the uneven build-up of the pages and creates a relatively flat stack, allowing the high capacity feeder to be filled to capacity. A camera or sensor placed in the high capacity feeder will detect the orientation of the stack on the fly so the image can be rotated accordingly.
Claims19
A method for feeding uneven media from a feed tray into a printing apparatus, comprising:
- providing a feed tray;
- providing a stack of uneven media in sets;
- placing said sets of uneven media into said feed tray;
- alternating said sets of media front to back within said feed tray;
- providing a controller;
- providing a sensor for sensing said alternate positioning of each of said sets of media within said feed tray;
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- rotating images of each set of media 180° within said printing apparatus each time said sensor sends a signal to said controller in response to sensed alternate positioning of each set of media.
An electrostatographic printing machine adapted to feed uneven pages of media, comprising:
- a feed tray;
- a feeder for feeding pages of media from said feed tray;
- a stack comprising sets of uneven media within said feed tray with each set of uneven media alternating front to back with each other in order to present an approximately level stack at all times to said feeder;
- a sensor for sensing a change in thickness between each media set;
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- a controller adapted to receive signals from said sensor for each change in thickness of each set of said media and in response actuate said printing machine to rotate images 180° for each set of media sensed in response to said sensed signals.
A method for feeding non-flat pages from a feed tray into an imaging apparatus that places images onto said non-flat pages, comprising:
- providing a stack of non-flat pages;
- placing said non-flat pages into said feed tray and alternating said non-flat pages front to back within said feed tray every predetermined number of pages;
- providing a feeder for feeding said non-flat pages into said imaging apparatus;
- providing a controller;
- providing a camera placed within said feeder, said camera being adapted to detect orientation of said non-flat pages within said stack on the fly and send a signal of such to said controller;
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- using said controller based upon said signal from said camera to rotate images 180° within said imaging apparatus in synchronism with said alternating of said stack of non-flat pages within said feed tray.
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