Automatic media loading and unloading system for producing dimensional documents

US8695960B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Xerox Corporation · US

Inventors

• Barry P. Mandel · Fairport, US
• William W. Nowak · Broadview Heights, US
• Robert A. Clark · Williamson, US
• Linn C. Hoover · Webster, US
• Thomas C. Hollar · Penfield, US
• Peter J. Knausdorf · Henrietta, US
• Thomas J. Wyble · Williamson, US
• Kathleen A. Feinberg · Rochester, US
• Ming Yang · Fairport, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 20, 2011
• Grant date: Apr 15, 2014
• Expiry date: Jun 24, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65H2701/176
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A media loading and unloading system, for use with a media cutting system having a cutting table and cutting apparatus to cut or score media held on a surface of the cutting table, includes an elevator assembly and a bi-directional transport system. The elevator assembly includes a drive and multiple vertically displaced bins that are vertically movable up and down by the drive. The bi-directional transport system transports media in a lateral feed direction from the elevator assembly to the cutting table surface and removes media from the cutting table surface in a lateral direction opposite to the feed direction to the elevator assembly.