Method and device for separably depositing sheets in a stack

US5918879A · kind A · utility

Inventor

• Friedhelm Steinhilber · Rottweil, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 14, 1997
• Grant date: Jul 6, 1999
• Expiry date: May 14, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65H2513/42
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The device includes a magazine for storing divider films to separate sheets output by an office machine and deposited directly in stacks, wherein the divider films are placed between discrete groups of associated sheets. In order to be able to associate the sheet groups separated by the divider films with particular users of the office machine, different types of divider films, for example differently colored divider films, are used. The different types of divider films are identified by an automatically detectable identifying code and are deposited onto the sheet stack according to this identifying code.