Reversing mechanism for sheet-like items

US6129349A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Oce Printing Systems GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Otto Olbrich
• Reinhold Rigauer · Erding, DE
• Otto Rotheimer · Erding, DE
• Rudolf Seeberger · Lochham, DE
• Joseph Dietl · Unterhaching, DE
• Georg Boehmer · Munich, DE
• Bernward Heller · Tauberbischofsheim, DE
• Hubert Mugrauer · Straubing, DE
• Hans Hahn · Unterhaching, DE
• Richard Pardubitzki · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 18, 1999
• Grant date: Oct 10, 2000
• Expiry date: Aug 18, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S271/902
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An active switching mechanism is used for diverting paper sheets from a first area (A) to either possible paths (ab or ac). The sheets along the first path (ab) can be directly conveyed to a second area (B), and the sheets along the second path (ac) can be directed through a passive switching mechanism (4) to a third area (C), the direction of the moving sheets being reversed through a reversing mechanism, thereby enabling said sheets to be conveyed in the reverse direction from the third area (C) along a third path (cb) to the second area (B), using a passive switching device (4).