Sheet storing apparatus for copying machine
US4958820A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 17, 1988 |
| Grant date | Sep 25, 1990 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 17, 2008 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG03G2215/00438
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An apparatus for storing the sheets discharged from a copying machine or the like vertically for subsequent refeeding of the sheets to the copying machine, comprises side regulating plates for regulating the side ends of the stored sheet, a lower regulating plate for regulating the lower end of the stored sheet, a guide member for guiding each of the sheets transported downward to the lower regulating plate and holding the sheet in a widthwise deflected condition, a paddle wheel for urging each of the sheets downward, a refeeding belt for refeeding the stored sheets, and a separation pad for preventing the sheets from being refed in plurality of a time by contacting the refeeding belt. The side regulating plates are moved back and forth, the lower regulating plate is moved donward and upward, the refeeding belt is rotated backward, and the separation pad is moved away from the refeeding belt in response to the detection signal from a sensor with respect to each of the sheets being refed.
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