Cut sheet and computer form document output tray unit

US5081487A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Xerox Corporation · US

Inventors

• August Hoyer · Penfield, US
• John R. Masley · Farmington, US
• Thomas Bitter · Bad Ditzenbach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 25, 1991
• Grant date: Jan 14, 1992
• Expiry date: Jan 25, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G03G2215/00227
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In a document imaging apparatus in which documents are fed to an imaging station and then fed to a documents catch tray system for automatic document restacking, there is provided a common, shared, restacking catch tray receiving either cut sheet documents or computer form (CF) web documents at the upper surface of the imaging apparatus, rather than dropping the CF web down to a tray below the end of the apparatus. This dual mode restacking catch tray is pivotable from a first position at a generally horizontal tray angle for restacking cut sheet documents into a second position at a preferred angle for fan-folding a computer form web. There is also an upper baffle unit partially overlying the output path to the restacking area, which is pivotable between a first position for planarly guiding cut sheet documents, and a second, raised, position for guiding a computer form web arcuately and then downwardly into the restacking area with an integral CF guide baffle. This upper baffle unit desirably includes an integral gate which automatically selectively gates documents onto two different paths segments, below or over the guide baffle, which gate may be provided by one end of the guid…