Finisher--exit pocket module for copier

US4424963A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Michael A. Bartholet · Longmont, US
• James Cochran · Santa Clara, US
• Donovan M. Janssen · Boulder, US
• Robert Magno · Boulder, US
• Allan J. Rood · Longmont, US
• William S. Seaward · Boulder, US
• Lance A. Walker · Louisville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 11, 1981
• Grant date: Jan 10, 1984
• Expiry date: Sep 11, 2001

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65H2405/324
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A compact single bin finisher adaptable to form collated sets of copy sheets outputted from a copier/duplicator. The finisher includes an output tray adapted to support the collated sets and to support copy sheets during accumulation of a set. A set accumulation module having an accumulation platform is disposed in a plane which is displaced both horizontally and vertically from the output tray. A transport device carries sheets into the accumulation module. A predetermined number of sheets form a set which may be stapled and is ejected onto the output tray.