By means to change direction of sheet travel

The invention provides mail processing equipment which receives opened items of mail for moving these items individually past several stations. Each item is first gripped in a mail carrier which moves longitudinally and which is rotated as it moves to take up a position in which the carrier and item...     

A transport for conveying an article between two positions is provided which is capable of high speed article transfer while maintaining positive article control. The preferred embodiment is intended to operate with relatively thin and small labels finding applications as postal destination designators....     

Disclosed is a document view station adjacent to a document guideway that will, upon being alerted to a misread document, ready itself to intercept the misread document. Once intercepted the misread document may be cammed out of the guideway to a position where it may be easily viewed, tactilibly manipulated,...     

Disclosed is a document view station adjacent to a document guideway that will, upon being alerted to a misread document, ready itself to intercept the misread document. Once intercepted the misread document may be cammed out of the guideway to a position where it may be easily viewed, tactilibly manipulated,...     

Apparatus for feeding data processing record cards seriatim from the bottom of a stack to a data sensing station or the like including a pair of oscillating picker members for displacing a record card from the bottom of the stack, and a pair of sector rollers for intermittently gripping the displaced...     

Apparatus for transporting and cooling toner bearing sheets discharged from a fuser includes a structure having a pair of superposed sheet passageways, the entrance to the passageways being located at one end of the structure. The structure is moved so that successive sheets from the fuser are alternately...     

This disclosure relates to a continuous sheet feeder in which a stack of sheets arranged sheet-by-sheet are transported by conveyor belts from a lower loading tray, around a reversing cylinder and onto a discharge tray. In the region of the discharge tray, the conveyer passes between two guide rollers...     

A conveyor is provided for accepting sheets moving in one direction from a duplicator and conveying them at an angle to the initial direction; e.g., 90.degree.. The conveyor consists of rollers of relatively large diameter arranged with close spacing so that sheets of paper will pass easily from one...     

An improved paper handling system includes a pair of work units which sequentially work on opposite sides of a sheet with the same edge of the sheet leading. An inverter between the two work units is effective to invert the sheet in such a manner that the edge of the sheet which leads during passage...     

Disclosed is an alignment assembly for accurately aligning separate sets of documents being inserted into the assembly from transversely oriented feed paths, the alignment assembly including a pivotally mounted document gate which provides not only guide passageways for documents entering the assembly,...     

A system for presenting documents to a xerographic exposure station includes a first fluidic storage station in which a rack for storing documents is located. The rack includes a plurality of pockets in each of which a document may be stored, the rack being movable in a vertical direction. A fluid stream...     

Card feeding apparatus for feeding the lowermost card from a stack of cards to an off-set station from which the card is fed to a processing station. A feed roller driven by a drive roller is rotated about the periphery of the drive roller and into engagement with the lowermost card by operation of an...     

A multidifferential device of the type comprising a plurality of differentials, whereby each comprises a differential holder with at least two epicyclic gears and two planetary gears and in which the imaginary rotation axis of all the differential holders and planetary gears is the same. The differential...     

Transfer apparatus for receiving a printing plate from a first station in a first horizontal orientation and for transferring the plate to a second station in a second orientation which is both vertical and rotated 90.degree. relative to the first orientation. The apparatus comprises a receptor bin for...     

Cloth moves from a reel along its length, a first "right-handed" edge treatment system positioned at one edge of the path of movement of the cloth treats one edge of the cloth, the cloth is turned over and a second "right-handed" edge treatment system positioned at the edge of the path of movement treats...     

This turn conveyor apparatus is disposed between two conveyors having angularly related travel axes for the purpose of transporting articles, such as envelopes, from one conveyor to the other. The turn conveyor includes drive and idler sprockets having horizontal, angularly related axes of rotation,...     

A card feeding and ejection device having supply guiding, input and ejection channels intersecting at a forked channel portion at which a movable deflector is located. In a first position of the deflector one card can be passing through the forked portion and out the ejection channel while another card...     

The invention concerns a sheet feed for rapidly and accurately placing a sheet onto a processing station. A carriage is movably mounted above this processing station and reciprocated for feeding. Two belts extend between the sheet feed frame and opposite ends of the movable carriage, leaving an opening...     

A system for duplicating images wherein a copy sheet is delivered to an impression cylinder. A first image is transferred to one side of each sheet. Each sheet is then removed from the impression cylinder, delivered to a reversing means and then to the impression cylinder, trailing edge first. The re-feeding...     

A pair of infeed rollers located upstream of an exposure window and a pair of outfeed rollers downstream thereof transport an original across the exposure window so that successive portions of the transported original be imaged onto successive portions of copying medium whose transport speed corresponds...     

Originals are individually separated from the bottom of a stack overlying the imaging platen of a document copier and are advanced around a first 180.degree. bend onto the platen for copying. After they are copied, the originals are returned to the top of the stack around a second 180.degree. bend at...     

A bag making machine continuously drawing and propelling tube stock from a supply in a roll, including an in-feed conveying mechanism having feed rolls drawing the tube stock from the supply, a horizontal belt conveyor with spaced individual belts carrying the tube stock in horizontally laid out condition,...     

Sheet alignment and feeding apparatus including a sheet feed table for supporting a sheet to be fed, a side registration edge along one edge of the feed table, a sheet feed roll rotatably mounted in the feed table so that its top surface is in feeding engagement with a sheet to be fed, a cooperating...     

An improved document registration system in a copier having a platen for exposing documents includes a registration edge at the forward end of the platen and at least one foam document aligning belt located adjacent to and above the registration edge. The alignment belt is adapted to extend a short distance...     

A printer for a desk computer includes a card case adapted to accommodate a large number of cards. The cards accommodated in the card case are pressed toward an open end of the card case by a biasing means. A movable frame is adapted to move up and down while keeping in slidable engagement with the open...     

A method and apparatus for segregating articles, such as envelopes (14a, b, or c) bearing address labels (15) into separate groups, with all the articles in each group having the same unique mark (such as a zip-code-area mark). The apparatus includes a right angle conveyor (12) positioned perpendicular...     

A ticket shingling process and an apparatus for performing the process by which tickets are serially stripped from the bottom of a stack of tickets by means of a reciprocating suction means which, in conjunction with rotable feed means, transfers the stripped ticket to a longitudinally extending first...     

A copier capable of producing simplex and duplex copies includes a tri-roll inverter that employs a spring loaded ball on roll return force applicator located downstream from the tri-roll input/output members. The input nip of the inverter includes the combination of a smooth roll and a foam roll. This...     

A direct control paddle wheel apparatus for document corner registration includes a paddle wheel with multiple blades that drive a document into registration with intersecting walls. The blades, as they rotate, are channeled in a direction plate or in the alternative along the surface of an interference...     

An apparatus for positioning an interleave on a finished sheet product prior to transferring and depositing the latter in a stacked relation. The apparatus includes a stripper means for removing the lowermost interleave from a stack of such interleaves and advancing the same on a conveyor arrangement...     

A ticket diverter module for placement in a ticket handling system includes a housing having a transport passage and a capture passage intersecting the transport passage and includes a diverter member for diverting a ticket from the main transport passage into the capture passage in response to a selective...     

In a duplicating machine for duplicating images on both sides of copy sheets including a blanket cylinder and an impression cylinder, a mechanism for handling the sheets and re-feeding the sheets back to the impression cylinder for duplex copying. The blanket cylinder has first and second images transferable...     

Methods and apparatus for stacking sheets of various intermixed lengths in a stacking location employ distinct first and second sheet drive rollers at a sheet feed path adjacent said stacking location. The first sheet drive rollers are rotated in a first sense of rotation for driving each sheet along...     

A device for inverting a sheet includes an input and output transport means and a sheet receiving tray. Sheet deflectors are provided to deflect portions of a sheet as it leaves the input transport means and moves into the tray. A reversal drive arrangement, including a drive roller within a vacuum plenum,...     

A set of sheets delivered seriatim from a copier/duplicator or other source are advanced along a sheet path leading from an input station to an assembly station where a booklet is formed. As a sheet is moved along the path a line of adhesive is applied to one surface of the sheet adjacent to one side...     

An image recording apparatus capable of recording images on both faces of a recording sheet by a combination of image reading devices for reading both faces of the original in reciprocating scanning motion and recording devices for image recording on both faces of the sheet. The reading devices are capable...     

Methods of a human operator processing first and second interrelated documents in pairs relative to a processing station provide a first document entry station for receiving a first document from the human operator, and a second document entry station for receiving a second document from the human operator....     

A rotating inverter mechanism includes a drive shaft and dual primary and secondary rollers mounted within a set of collars such that the drive shaft is adapted to provide rotation to the primary rollers in a clockwise direction while the secondary rollers which are initially in an out of sheet contact...     

An automatic paper handling system capable of loading individual sheets of a stack of paper onto a drum for printing or scanning, escaping a printing or scanning transducer relative to the drum, and stacking the sheet of paper after printing or scanning is additionally provided with duplexing capability...     

Book blocks are transferred between vertically displaced levels via a first conveying path which extends upwardly at an angle, the conveying path being intercepted by a movable feed table which engages the book blocks and re-orients the motion thereof into a generally horizontal plane wherein the blocks...     

An apparatus is disclosed for transferring a sheet of deformable material such as cloth on a first conveyer to a second conveyer at a right angle to the first conveyor. The apparatus includes a full-length clamp having an elongated support surface for grasping and supporting the sheet along a side edge...     

A sheet handling device for a printer, such as a silkscreen printed circuit card printer, includes a pick-up and hold device that translates between a register position on the printer and one or more stacks of cards. Adjustable limit switches on a transport track for the device determine the positions...     

A high-speed compact sheet handling device is disclosed. In this device sheet members are supplied from a stacking table to a required position and are ejected at a higher speed from that position to the stacking table, and the functions of supply and ejection can be effected at the same time.

A lugged chain conveyor system has two generally coplanar conveyor elements disposed at an angle to one another. A turntable which transfers articles from one conveyor to the other has several grippers equidistant from one another which are spring biased to open position, and a fixed cam rail cooperates...     

A paper sheet feeding arrangement for feeding paper sheets one sheet by one sheet, including a paper sheet cassette, a paper feeding roller, a feed roller, a paper sheet separating roller rotated, in contact with the feed roller, in a direction counter to a paper feeding direction, a return roller provided...     

In a commercial lasagna making and packaging machine, a collator comprises a vertically movable conveyor having shelves positioned to receive strips of lasagna delivered thereto by a horizontally moving main conveyor which carries the strips of lasagna from the dryer through the cutters to the collator....     

An improve image building apparatus is disclosed which makes it possible to carry out image transferrence to both the surfaces of material by bringing back material while its rear end moves ahead and displacing it to an image transferring section from first guiding means after it is displaced from first...     

A bar coded or user marked document is moved along a first transport path, where it is read. A portion of the document is situated in a curved retaining section. If validated, the document is moved completely into the retaining section and then into a second transport path, past a head for imprinting...     

A drive mechanism is disclosed for a document feeder which is used in supplying documents to-be-copied onto the glass top of a copy machine. The drive mechanism includes a set of feed wheels which remove the document to-be-copied from a document support and by rotating in one direction move the document...     

Sheets selective loading apparatus making groups of a given number of sheets discharged on a sheet stacker from sheet discharge rollers in an image recording apparatus and selectively loading the groups of sheets one on top of another alternatively on positions offset from each other. The sheet discharge...     

A document printer includes sheet-feeding apparatus for sequentially presenting both faces of a print-receiving sheet to a print station. According to a preferred embodiment, such apparatus features, as part of the duplex sheet path, reversible sheet-feeding means operable in first or second active modes...     

In an automatic sheet reversing apparatus having a convey/reversing section with a plurality of conveyor belts, a stacking/moving section with a stopper for stopping a leading end of a reversed sheet, and a feed section, the stopper is located below the conveyor belts. The upper portion of the stopper...     

An apparatus for turning over copies supplied from a copying machine including first and second rollers arranged vertically to form a first nip portion through which copies are successively fed horizontally. A third roller is arranged beside the second roller to form a second nip portion therebetween,...     

A sheet feeder for a bottom feed printer which comprises a housing member having legs extending therethrough which support a feeder directly on a table surface and which includes a sheet feeding mechanism in the housing which successively feeds sheets to feed rolls of the printer even though the printer...     

A recirculating document feeder for presenting document sheets to a copier apparatus for reproducing multiple collated sets of information respectively contained on one face of such document sheets, or information respectively contained on both faces of such sheets, at a rate which makes maximum use...     

A stimulable phosphor sheet conveyance apparatus has a first conveyance path for receiving a stimulable phosphor sheet from an image read-out section and conveying it in the forward direction, a third conveyance path for receiving the stimulable phosphor sheet from the first conveyance path and then...     

A radiation image read-out apparatus comprises a section for reading out a radiation image stored in a stimulable phosphor sheet, a section for erasing the radiation energy remaining on the stimulable phosphor sheet after image read-out, and a section for stacking the stimulable phosphor sheets after...     

A copier is disclosed as having a sorter positioned on top of the copier housing for easy access to an operator. The path of movement of processed copy sheets is repeatedly folded in order to present to the operator collated copy sets or stacks for easy observation of sorting and removal. The sheets...     

A device for taking out sheets comprising a temporary stacking section for temporarily stacking sheets to be transported, a take-out section provided on the take-out side of said temporary stacking section for taking out the sheets one by one, conveyers for transporting sheets taken out from said take-out...     

An envelope transport guide is disclosed that organizes opened and emptied envelopes from an envelope opening machine. The guide has an entry surface coplanar with the pathway of the moving envelopes, and adjacent the opening machine for accepting each envelope. The envelopes turn, under the force of...     

A cash dispenser is provided with cash containers for storing bills classified according to the kinds of money, a reject container for collecting unacceptable bills and acceptable bills cancelled by the customer, and a bill discharge outlet, etc. Acceptable bills sent from cash containers are collected...     

A thermal transfer printing apparatus comprises a recording sheet conveying passageway of a chuckless type which does not require a chuck mechanism for affixing a recording sheet to a platen roller. The recording sheet conveying passageway is constituted in loop form by at least one guide member and...     

A belt and pulley conveyor device for flat objects comprises a substantially linear input conveyor and a substantially linear output conveyor orthogonal to the input conveyor. The input of the output conveyor is substantially contiguous with the output of the input conveyor. A chute is adapted to link...     

An automatic document feeder, for example for a copier, in which the feed timing of a document is variably determined as a function of the size of an immediately preceding document, thus enabling stable feed and discharge of documents different in size.

An in-line passive "pinwheel" copy sheet rotator in a rotating disc configuration for use in a copier, intermediate module or the like rotates copy sheets 90 or 180 degrees as desired. The disc has four quadrants and is used in combination with and positioned in-line with a sheet transport such as a...     

Sheet conveyer intended to take charge of and convey part sheets (2', 2", 2"') obtained from a main sheet by dividing this into a predetermined number of parts and delivering it out of a cutter simultaneously and side by side. The conveyer includes a number of downward gradient planes corresponding to...     

A high speed envelope feeder is provided with a pair of pinch rolls for extracting an envelope from a stack of closed envelopes in a magazine. The flap of a closed envelope is opened by raising a cam surface under the flap to position the flap between a fixed pinch roll and a movable pinch roll. The...     

A paper control gate directs a sheet from any one to any other of a plurality of three or more stations angularly disposed about a single rotatable shaft mounting one or more vanes. The vanes are in general curved and deflect a sheet through an appreciable angle. Where there is little or no sheet deflection...     

A copy sheet rotator in which a sheet is moved by two separately driven crowned rolls that form nips with cooperating idler rolls. For sheet turning, one roll is stopped with the sheet in the nip while the other roll continues to drive and rotate the sheet. A separate scuffer roller registers the rotated...     

The invention provides apparatus for coupling a pair of imaging units to receive paper along a first path from a first unit, and to invert and transfer the paper along a second path entering the second unit. Embodiments include one which in addition to inverting the paper provides an alternative path...     

A differential motion translating and document drive delivery system wherein the system includes power, a first element for delivery of documents sequentially along a first path, a device for establishing orientation relative to a planar reference, and an element related to the first delivery element...     

A device for guiding flat articles being fed horizontally and changing the direction of movement from one direction to another wherein the change in direction may be as great as 90.degree.. This is accomplished by providing a housing with internal rollers capable of being rotated in one of two directions.

Apparatus for removing a flat article form a stream of articles moving along a straight path. The apparatus includes: a substantially curved, horizontal ramp movable vertically between a lower, home position and an upper position for engaging a removing the flat article form the stream and a swingable...     

An automatic paper feeder presses the surface of copying paper loaded on a paper loading plate in a paper cassette against a paper feeding roller, and feeds the paper sheet by sheet in accordance with the rotation of the roller. When a paper detector provided at a downstream side of the roller does not...     

Apparatus for loading automatically fed documents and manually fed documents into a document transport. The loader apparatus includes a plurality of document driver devices situated along a track and capable of automatically accommodating documents of various thicknesses and sizes, the driver devices...     

An angled conveyor for document packages comprises a transition conveyor belt, having an angled direction of motion relative to the direction of feed of document packages to the transition conveyor belt, and an output conveyor belt in line with and having a direction of motion that is substantially the...     

A sheet handling apparatus for copying and transporting sheets which comprises an image processing apparatus containing an image processing face, a sheet processing device disposed above said image processing face and operative to move toward and away from said image processing face, a sheet transport...     

High speed sheet feeders receive blocks or bricks of paper sheets, cards or folders stacked edgewise on a downsloping supply ramp, and singulate these for edgewise feeding in rapid succession. The frontmost sheets ready for feeding are buckled and fanned at their upper edges, and their lower edges are...     

A paper feeding apparatus for the printer having an intermittent mechanism between a driving motor and both a paper feed roller and a platen. The intermittent mechanism allows both the platen and the paper feed roller to rotate simultaneously and also allows only the platen to rotate while the paper...     

Disclosed is a hybrid copying system including a document feeder for a copier with a document bypass loop for copying documents in desired non-linear page sequences for improved copying efficiency, particularly for duplex copying. As shown, documents from a stacked set of document sheets may be fed to...     

A sheet handling apparatus includes first and second endless belts (38, 40) which are of resiliently stretchable material and parts of which are in cooperative relationship with respect to each other, a sheet (68) being fed through the apparatus while gripped between the cooperating parts of the belt...     

A sheets handling device for use in association with image-forming apparatus, the device handling the sheets bearing an image fed from the image-forming apparatus such as copying apparatus and printers so as to discharge them face up or face down as desired, and also to feed them back to the image-forming...     

Magazines are re-oriented by turning each magazine through ninety degrees in a horizontal plane while the magazine is advanced continuously along a generally straight path. The re-orientation is effected by kicking each magazine laterally while switching control of the magazine from a first continuously...     

A teller machine for drive up applications is disclosed. The machine has a safe with an access slot. The machine also has a user panel which has an opening that lies transverse to the slot. A document carrier is described which rotates documents around two different axes as it carries them between the...     

An image forming apparatus provided with a sensor for detecting a sheet transport problem. When a sheet transport problem occurs before a sheet reaches an image forming section, the sheet is returned to a sheet feeding section, and when a transport problem occurs at or after the image forming section,...     

A sheet feeding system for an image-forming machine includes a main body having a conveying passage therethrough for guiding sheet materials and a hand insertion feed table pivotally attached to the main body for movement between a feed position in which it can be used to feed sheet materials into the...     

A paper rotation table 15 for use in transporting sheets of paper between paper handling devices while performing a rotation upon each sheet through a predetermined arc so as to present to a receiving paper handling device a leading edge different than the leading edge which emerged from a delivering...     

A multiple bill escrow apparatus for forming a stack of successively received bills at an escrow location and for selectively moving the stack to a stacker or to a return in which a ram moves successively received bills to between pairs of first and second belt lengths to form the stack and in which...     

Document feeding apparatus, comprising: structure for registering an edge of a document; first structure for feeding a document in a path of travel; and second structure for feeding a document from the registering structure to the first feeding structure, the second feeding structure including a plurality...     

A high-speed, multi-pocket "small footprint" document sort machine having a large number of sort pockets configured to occupy a relatively small floor space. The pockets are arranged in multiple, horizontal tiers which are vertically spaced with respect to each other.

An automatic document feeder includes a conveyor belt for transporting a document, a document guide disposed downstream from the conveyor belt and which includes a holding portion in the form of a circular arc, and a discharge roller disposed in such a position as to reverse and discharge the document...     

Apparatus for turning an envelope, including: a housing; a transport deck secured to the housing for transporting an envelope from an upstream location to a downstream location, the deck including a device for moving the envelope; a vertically extending spindle located beneath the deck, the spindle being...     

A system and method for automatically producing folded and sealed printed products from form sheets includes a high-speed printer interconnected with a conveyor which directs form sheets from the outfeed of the printer to the infeed of a folder gluer. In an alternative embodiment for producing such products...     

An image forming apparatus having a plurality of image forming units and a sheet transporting unit for transporting sheets discharged from an arbitrary one of the image forming units to a discharge portion of its own or to that of other image forming unit. When one of the image forming units is incapable...     

Translatable registration apparatus in an envelope turning machine. The apparatus includes: a deck for transporting a plurality of envelopes from an upstream location to a downstream location; a translatable carriage mounted to the deck and adjustable for upstream and downstream movement to accommodate...     

An adjustable deck system including: a first, stationary deck; a second, rotatable deck partially overlying and pivotably mounted to the stationary deck; and a device for rotating the rotatable deck relative to the stationary deck. The rotating device includes: a pair of support brackets spaced from...     

An apparatus for transporting a sheet includes a first transporting path provided with rollers for transporting the sheet to an image forming section, a second transporting path for conducting the sheet in a direction transverse to the first transporting path, and a control section for controlling the...     

A paper rotation table 15 for use in transporting sheets of paper between paper handling devices while performing a rotation upon each sheet through a predetermined arc so as to present to a receiving paper handling device a leading edge different than the leading edge which emerged from a delivering...     

A route selector for a sheetlike article comprises an delivery path for feeding the sheetlike article, a pair of feed rollers located at the end of the delivery path, and a first and a second discharge paths separated by the feed rollers. The feed rollers are arranged so that a line connecting the central...     

A noise suppression device for a buckle-type folding machine and a method for folding paper. The device includes an elongated sheet stop with a plurality of tabs. Each tab contains an opening wherein a bumper is fitted. The bumper contacts the sheet material during the operation of the folding machine....