Holder adjustable to size of sheet

A receptacle for supporting a stack of sheets which are to be fed into a reproduction machine has a support surface and two parallel margin guides which can be moved asymmetrically with respect to the support surface so that sheets of different widths can be placed in the receptacle with the center line...     

Adjustable guides for a sheet stack are frictionally secured to the stack support by bristle pads provided on each adjustable guide and on the stack support. Each pad has bristles inclined at an acute angle relative to the surface of the pad. Interleafing of the bristles on the guides and the stack support...     

A sheet feeding apparatus for use in feeding sheets in an electrostatographic reproducing machine includes a sheet stack support drawer movable between an extended position and an operative position. A pivotally mounted belt separator and retard member move with the drawer and in the extended position...     

For feeding blanks into, for example, a carton folding machine, blank feeder apparatus that includes a frame, blank support members having rear and intermediate portions that are forwardly and upwardly inclined and front portions that extend generally horizontally; a magazine for retaining the blanks...     

A method of, and apparatus for, feeding corrugated blanks from a stack in which the lowermost blank is advanced to processing machinery on a feed bed which comprises rollers mounted above a vacuum source in such manner as to enable the advancing blank to be held flat while minimizing friction between...     

A vertical rise sheet feeder is provided comprising means responsive to the weight of a stack of sheets for positioning and maintaining the stack at a feed level for the feeding of a single sheet at a time from the top of the stack. The sheet feeder includes a fixed platform and a vertically movable...     

In a mechanism for feeding individual sheets of paper separately from a stack of paper sheets, a separating device exposes an edge of an outer sheet and a "pull-foot" is oscillated between the separated sheet and a remaining stack. A roller is concurrently moved into position to pinch the separated sheet...     

A sheet feeding device adapted for feeding sheets individually from the bottom of a stack of sheets. An air floatation stacking tray is provided to minimize sheet-to-tray and inter-sheet friction to assure positive feeding of individual sheets from the bottom of the stack irrespective of stack height.

A paper tray for copying machines includes a tray body having a movable side plate and an elastic member operatively connected to the movable side plate whereby as the tray is inserted into a copying machine, the elastic member in cooperation with an actuator on the copier, urges the movable side member...     

A feed cassette for use with copying machines or the like comprises two separate inner plates for supporting thereon a stack of copy mediums. One of the two inner plates is pivotable and the other inner plate is pivotable and normally biased upwardly by spring means to raise the copy mediums at the leading...     

Apparatus for feeding corrugated blanks to processing machinery which comprises roller members mounted above a vacuum chamber which enables each advancing blank to be held flat while minimizing friction between the advancing blank and the feed bed comprised of the rollers. Improved vacuum chamber construction...     

A sheet feeder for the single feed of sheets from a stack, comprising a first member which moves with a reciprocating motion across the top sheet of the stack, performing a forward stroke from a position of departure to a position of arrival in the direction of feed of the sheets and a return stroke...     

Currency dispensing apparatus is disclosed in which vertically stacked bills located in a removable container positioned in the dispenser are fed one-by-one from the top of the stack through an opening in the container ceiling by a proximately located overlying rotary suction head. The head advances...     

A feeding attachment for paper sheets of variable small formats is readily attached to and removed from the existing printing machine for printing of smaller format paper sheets or regular printing as desired. The attachment is capable of feeding the paper sheets in an ideal attitude for printing to...     

A document feeding apparatus has a deck that is placed at an angle such that the incline of the deck is sufficiently large so as to overcome the friction of documents placed thereupon. The deck has an opening at the bottom thereof through which a vacuum type conveyor extends to engage the bottommost...     

A copy receiving tray having a general vertical orientation with a bottom stop member a first vertical stacking portion inclined to the horizontal, a second vertical stacking portion on top of the first portion further inclined to the horizontal to provide a stacking surface for copy sheets up to a first...     

A sheet feed apparatus for use with a copying machine comprising a sheet stacking member for stacking recording sheets thereon, and a pair of sheet feed rollers for feeding the recording sheets one by one, which are arranged coaxially on a driving shaft disposed above the sheet stacking member, and one...     

A tray receives and guides document sheets that are being manually fed to a copier/duplicator or the like. The tray has a plurality of flexible segments movable in pairs to adjust the size of a guide surface so that sheets of several sizes can be accommodated by the tray.

An electrophotographic copying machine having duplexing mode of operation and first and second selectively enabled sheet supply stations. The first supply station has a feeding device which turns the copy sheet to be fed upside down before delivering it to the conveyor moving the copy-sheet toward transfer...     

A rotary die cutting and scoring machine including a free wheeling resiliently covered anvil roll, an adjustable pusher having a velocity profile insuring that the velocity of the leading edge of the fed sheets matches the peripheral speed of the cutting roll, guides for guiding the side edges of the...     

Disclosed is a device for separating sheets from a stack of sheets, comprising a base for supporting the stack of sheets; a bar extending transversely along one edge of the stack of sheets; two members attached to the bar at a distance from one another corresponding to the width of the sheets for holding...     

A photocopier tray cassette lift plate is lockable against the upward bias of its springs by a tab extending down to engage a lower latch member mounted to the tray base. The lower latch member is spring biased toward a position in which it may engage the tab, and is movable toward a disengaging position...     

The disclosure is of apparatus for supporting a stack of documents and feeding the documents, one at a time, from the bottom of the stack to an operating position in a document processing machine.

In an electrostatic copying machine (21) having an automatic document feed system (23), a document (28) is fed onto a platen (26) for scanning in a first direction (36) and a copy sheet (64) is fed into toner image transferring engagement with a photoconductive drum (27) in a second direction (84) which...     

A paper feeding cassette for receiving paper piles of different widths to be able to replace, comprises a stationary bottom plate on which is disposed the rear portion of the paper pile, a movable bottom plate vertically movable relative to the stationary bottom plate and having the front portion of...     

In order to design a sheet feeder with a nonstop-device with stringers suspended at lifting chains and cross bars carried by the stringers for supporting bars that serve as base for a remaining pile, in such a way that the remaining pile, which is on the bars of the nonstop-device, is laterally adjustable,...     

An inserter is adapted to insert successive enclosures from a stack carried by an enclosure feeder assembly into envelopes carried by an envelope feeder assembly. Each feeder assembly includes a sloped tray and a pair of side guides which engage the ends of the stack of materials being fed. Both side...     

Apparatus shown for feeding documents of selected width singly from a stack in alignment without buckling. Guides are provided at either side of a bin for holding a stack of documents. One guide is fixed and the other adjustable in order that the bin may hold stacks having documents of selected widths....     

In a system of plurally recirculating a set of document sheets for precollated copying wherein the document sheets are repeatedly individually fed seriatim from the bottom of an overlying stack thereof for copying with registration and returned to the top of the stack for restacking, the improvement...     

An electrostatic copying apparatus including detecting means for detecting the longitudinal size of the copying paper unit and a control means for operating the charging corona-discharge device only for a time period corresponding to the detected longitudinal size of the copying paper.

A sheet feeding apparatus that can be adjusted to feed various sized sheets includes a fixed paper guide and an adjustable paper guide. A roller in cooperation with a limiting element insures that only a single sheet is drawn from a stack. To prevent uneven feeding and wrinkling, the center of the roller...     

In a sheet stacking apparatus, especially a recirculating document handler for recirculating document sheets for precollation copying at a copier platen to and from a stack in a document tray without obstructing access to the document tray, with restacking edge guides repositionable to accommodate stacking...     

In a sheet handling apparatus in which flimsy sheets are stacked on top of a stack thereof, particularly in a recirculating automatic document handler for a copier, there is disclosed an improved mis-stacking detection system comprising an optical sensing system defining a sheet interruptable optical...     

Apparatus and method for attaching tags to garments, gloves, handbags and the like includes an assembly for feeding tags from a stacked supply to a tag attaching station, an assembly for affixing the tag to the garment at the tag attaching station, and a control network for controlling and sequencing...     

A sheet feeding apparatus including an air flow sheet separation mechanism for feeding individual sheets of paper from a stack of sheets slanted slightly from the vertical. A flow of air established through a plurality of resiliently surfaced feed wheels draws individual sheets seriatim from the nearly...     

An inserter is adapted to insert successive enclosures from a stack carried by an enclosure feeder assembly into envelopes carried by an envelope feeder assembly. Each feeder assembly includes a sloped tray and a pair of side guides which engage the ends of the stack of materials being fed. Both side...     

A universal paper feed cassette wherein the lift of a bottom plate adapted to be raised by a spring lift member provided on a paper feed base is regulated by a paper-pressure regulator slidable in the widthwise direction of the recording paper along the inner surface of the bottom plate and having a...     

In a recording apparatus designed to effect printing onto a sheet of paper, a main body is provided with a printing means arranged to effect printing onto the sheet of paper. The main body is provided with a cassette-mounting portion into which a cassette used to receive therein a sheet of paper to be...     

The present invention relates to a paper feeding mechanism primarily for printing presses, or the like machines, comprising a left and right interlocking grill, which supports the stack of paper which is fed to the press. The adjustable grill rests on a center base support and the press side support...     

The present invention is characterized in that the separating hook and hopper roller are adapted to be mounted on sheet guides of the hopper, one end of said sheet guide being adapted to be engaged in a groove of a pressure sleeve so as to make said pressure sleeve movable along said end. A movable shaft...     

An automatic sheet transport mechanism for precisely positioning a sheet relative to an automatic signature writing machine or the like is disclosed. A writing instrument is located vertically above a flat writing surface upon which the sheet rests and is movable into and out of engagement with the writing...     

An automatic feeder for a photographic copying machine includes a housing and a plate for supporting a stack of originals which are consecutively conveyed towards a transparent exposure plate positioned on the copying machine. The feeder is provided with adjustable tappet rollers mounted against the...     

An automatic sheet feeding apparatus permits a choice between an automatic feed mode in which sheets disposed in a stack on a sheet receiving table can be sequentially separated and fed one by one from the bottom of the stack, and a manual feed mode in which a single sheet is manually fed. The sheet...     

A collating machine includes a serial array of vertically oriented stacking bins, each bin receiving a stack of sheet material to be collated. The upper edge of each stack is a reference and needs to be at a machine reference plane. The machine normally places the reference edge of the stacks of each...     

A universal paper feed cassette wherein the position of a slidable guide plate for stopping the recording paper to be loaded is detected by a detecting device, so that the size of recording paper can be detected.

A tray adapted to support a stack of sheet material thereon. The tray is adjustable to accommodate stacks of sheet material of different widths and lengths. The rear registration and the side registration surfaces are moved in unison with one another so as to engage the rear and side edges of the stack...     

Single sheet feeding from a stack is provided by placing the stack onto flat bars defining a stack bottom and being part of a pivotable frame. That frame includes holddown fingers engaging the top sheet at its front edges, and, two separating rollers are provided laterally offset and at a higher level;...     

A stack support tray 41 for use with a sheet feeder such as used in a document handler is described. It has a first fixed registration guide 52 and a second movable registration guide 53 which is movable towards and away from the first guide. The movable guide 53 comprises first and second resiliently...     

A paper feeding apparatus for a printer. There are at least two mounting members, each of which is adapted to contain sheets of paper. A paper feeding assembly is associated with each of the mounting members and contacts the paper in the mounting member for feeding single sheets of paper. A paper feed...     

A sheet member feeding cassette comprises a main unit wherein sheet members are stored in a stacked manner. A longitudinal hole extending in the direction of feeding sheet member is formed on a supporting plate installed above a bottom plate of the main body, and a pin extending from the bottom plate...     

An integral removable duplex module for use in conjunction with a reproduction processor is disclosed including two paper trays, a first operable as a duplex copy buffer tray or a paper tray and a second operable as an auxiliary paper tray, each tray having a copysheet feeder associated therewith comprised...     

A blank feeder for a packaging machine for use with folded flat blanks unfoldable into tubes of square to rectangular cross section and having different lengths to form containers of different capacities. The feeder includes a magazine for containing a stack of flat container blanks. The magazine comprises...     

Disclosed is an accumulator for paper sheets which are conveyed by conveyor belts to a receiving area comprised of parallel support members having spaces therebetween. The conveyor belts are mounted on rollers, at least one set of which is mounted on a first track-mounted movable carriage, and at least...     

A recirculating document feeder adapted to transport each document sheet from a stack of such sheets to an exposure position through a circulation path. After printing, the sheets are returned to a sheet support portion with the front ends thereof brought to a specified position irrespective of the size...     

An adjustable sheet cassette for use in apparatus feeding sheets such as in an automatic copier or printer comprises a sheet stack support platform capable of supporting stacks of sheets of a plurality of length and width dimensions, sheet width and length dimension representing members on the cassette,...     

Two parallel guide rails slidably receive corresponding mating members which together form two spaced sheet material guides. A rod including a guide member is slidably attached to the rails and members for displacement in directions along the rails. The rails having relatively small footprints on a perforated...     

A platform for supporting paper and/or cardboard which is to be supplied to a printing press wherein the sheets of paper are stacked on a inner table which is mounted in an outer table for adjustable movement and wherein the outer table is driven vertically so as to lift and automatically feed the paper...     

The present invention is directed to a document feeding device which operates in such manner that documents loaded are carried forward in order of the lowermost one and upward and each document, after having been scanned, is discharged with its scanned surface up onto the uppermost one of the loaded...     

A copy storing tray for storing copy paper sheets, including a paper detection device, a pair of side regulating plates for regulating the lateral position of the copy paper sheets, at least one of which is movably provided so as to be displaced in a lateral direction, and an actuator device for displacing...     

This invention relates to an automatic sheet-feeder for feeding a sheet from the bottom of a stack of sheets placed on a sheet tray and for circularly returning the sheet to the top of the stack. The sheet tray comprises a movable tray and a stationary tray, and the movable tray can move upward or downward...     

A sheet guide adjusting apparatus for copy machines, phototelegraphic apparatuses, photo-engraving machines and the like, comprises a pair of sliding members supported on a machine body and able to move in a reciprocal manner to apply guides to the edges of sheets, and a drive mechanism mounted on the...     

A portable envelope feeder that is not dedicated to a specific offset printer but can be used with multiple offset printers is described. The portable feeding apparatus is clamped to the feed elevator in order to supply an envelope stack to the offset printer. The envelope feeder has the capability of...     

A device (1) for supporting a stack of sheet material with zones of uneven thickness, e.g. envelopes (11), on a printer with a pick-up device (16, 17) for the envelopes and a table (10) is provided with a supporting plate (2) as well as bar type supporting apparatus (3,4) at the side facing away from...     

A document feeding apparatus wherein a member for regulating the rear end of a document is provided movably in non-stepped manner substantially in a document feeding direction at the back of a document stacker having a paper feeding unit at the forward portion thereof. The movement of the rear end regulating...     

A sheet feeder is disclosed, which is mounted in a printer for feeding cut printing sheets one by one to a printing position in the printer. The sheet feeder comprises first and second sheet accommodation sections for accommodating respective stacks of printing sheets. First and second feed roller mechanisms...     

A stack of documents to be supplied to a processing device rest on at least one pull wheel for pulling the documents towards the processing device. A pushing element exerts a constant and uniform force which pushes the stack of documents against the pull wheel. The pull wheel pulls the documents towards...     

Disclosed is a sheet feeder device including support for a generally vertical stack of sheets. The support means includes endless belts having an upper belt run position to extend across the bottom of the stack of sheets. A stationary gate forming member is provided which is positioned above the upper...     

A feed magazine for feeding items for an envelope insertion apparatus is adjustable along three axes and includes a resiliently mounted adjustable floor plate which permits tilting adjustment about a lateral axis, and includes a jam detector for signaling misfeeds.

A supply magazine (1) for stacked sheets (5) comprises on its bottom surface a slideway (13, 14) adapted for cooperation with a limiting member (11, 12) allowing a continuous size adjustment. The slideway (13, 14) is moreover provided at selected points with abutments (37); and a limiting member (11,...     

A sheet feeder for feeding sheets into a copying or printing machine includes a movable base movably mounted on a fixed base for movement across a sheet inlet of the copying or printing machine in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the sheets are fed into the copying or printing machines....     

The feed table of a paper folder is provided with a downward step at the discharge end of the feed table. The downward step provides a discharge area so that the leading edge of a sheet can be pulled forward and down for a positive feed without wrinkling the leading edge through contact with the feed...     

In order to minimize the handling of large copy sheets when the feeding of a different size or type of copy sheet is required, and insertable copy sheet tray is included that is inserted on top of copy sheets already in a copy sheet tray for feeding purposes and removed once the requisite number of different...     

Portable apparatus for supporting a stack of sheets, the apparatus comprising: an elongate tray including a base wall and opposed longitudinally extending side walls, the side walls extending upwardly from the base wall and defining therewith opposed end openings through which sheets may be successively...     

A sheet feed arrangement is provided in an image forming apparatus such as a printer or the like and is comprised of a sheet cassette for accommodating a plurality of sheet materials, a lifting mechanism disposed below the sheet cassette for lifting end portions of the sheet materials only when the sheet...     

A box for supporting a printer intended for connection to a computer, the box being intended to be placed on a table in a workroom. The box includes two side wall pieces, a bottom-piece and a top-piece, which pieces can be fitted together to form a parallelepipedic box; the box further includes two side-supports...     

A first sheet stacker in which first sheets are stacked and retained by sheet separation claws is formed by a pair of first stacker forming members, and otherwise, a second sheet stacker free from the sheet separation claws is formed by placing second stacker forming members in between the first stacker...     

A recording paper length sensing apparatus for sensing a length of recording paper being fed in a paper feeding direction to an image forming apparatus. The recording paper length sensing apparatus comprises a table part on which the recording paper is loaded, the table part having a movable member and...     

A sheet feeder including a fixed gate provided on a base and approximately orthogonal to the direction of feed of sheets, and a movable guide plate provided on the base in parallel to the fixed gate movably toward and away from the fixed gate and positionable in place. The feeder kicks out sheets stacked...     

The present invention provides a sheet feeding apparatus having a support on which sheets are supported in a sheet stack, at least one separating claw arranged adjacent a corner of a front end of the sheet stack supported on the support and having a pawl portion for pressing down an upper surface of...     

A carton folding apparatus which is characterized by multiple folder/gluer modules, including a feed module for receiving and delivering unfolded cartons, prefold/fold, fold and final fold modules for effecting specified folding and gluing operations, a delivery module for completing the folding operations...     

Air flows from an air flow forming means are jetted to near the downstream end of a plurality of sheets stacked on a laying plate so as to separate either a uppermost sheet or a bottommost sheet from the remaining sheets. The uppermost sheet or the bottommost sheet is vacuum attracted to a vacuum attracting...     

The invention provides a sheet feed cassette for holding various sizes of sheets to be fed to an image recording apparatus in a feed direction. The cassette comprises a first casing having a sheet placement area, and a second casing slidably connected to the first casing for expanding the area. The first...     

A sheet-driven type automatic drafting machine has a drive roller or rollers and a rotary drive mechanism connected to the drive roller or rollers, a Y-axis rail extending in the Y-axis direction above the drive roller or rollers, a line-drafting head movably mounted on the rail for movement along the...     

An apparatus and method are provided for facilitating manual feeding of business forms into business forms handling equipment to bypass the automatic feeder, primarily in the production of mailers from forms having pressure sensitive adhesive strips. Mounted at the interface between the conveyor and...     

A cassette for feeding sheet materials is equipped with a container body in which two sheet material-holding devices are arranged in parallel in the direction of width. Each of the sheet material-holding devices includes a pair of width restriction members which are so disposed that their positions can...     

A fixed cover (7) having a pair of manual feed guides (12) for guiding opposite side edges of manual feed paper (10) is fixedly provided at a front portion of an upper opening of a cassette case (5) in respect of the paper feeding direction. A rotatable cover (8) is located behind the fixed cover (7),...     

A sheet supply tray (31) having two walls (33,34) extending in parallel with the direction from which the sheets are extracted from the tray (31) seriatum, the two walls (33,34) being spaced an adjustable distance apart to accommodate sheets of different widths. One wall (34) of the tray (31) comprises...     

A side edge alignment system for pre-aligning side edges of sheet stock prior to feeding them into a printing press employs a sheet engaging vacuum suction member driven reciprocatingly across the feed path of the press. As the member travels towards a side alignment stop the engaged sheet is aligned...     

The present invention provides a reserving type original feeding apparatus comprising a circulating original feeding portion having a first stack tray on which originals are supported, a first separating/supplying means unit for separating and supplying the originals supported in the first stack tray...     

A paper cassette unit includes a base part installed in an image forming system, a paper cassette having a compartment in which sheets of paper are accommodated, the paper cassette being detachably mounted in the base part, a cassette cover for covering an opening of the compartment when the paper cassette...     

A sheet cassette is provided with an adjustable paper storage area capable of accommodating multiple paper sizes, through the adjustment of a guide plate. The adjustment of one set of guide plates automatically adjusts the other guide plate pair, which moves in a perpendicular direction.

A recording paper size discriminating structure is provided for discriminating a recording paper size of recording papers which are accommodated in a recording paper cassette which is detachably attached to an imaging apparatus. The recording papers are cut in a predetermined size. The structure is provided...     

A paper supplying deck is insertable into and withdrawable from a paper supplying portion of a body resulting in electrical connection between the side of the paper supplying deck and the side of the body through a drawer-type connector when the paper supplying deck is inserted and interruption of such...     

An image recording apparatus wherein paper sheets are fed to a transport system along a predetermined feed path having a center line. The apparatus is provided with a pair of edge guides opposedly arranged about the center line for holding the paper sheets. Movement of one of the edge guides results...     

A paper feed mechanism is provided for individually supplying recording papers to an imaging apparatus. A plurality of papers are stacked on a tray member of a paper cassette. One end of the tray member is biased toward a feeding roller and presses the stacked papers toward the feeding roller. The papers...     

A paper feeding device having a supporting member for supporting recording paper thereon, and at least one width regulating member which is provided on the supporting member and freely movable in a direction perpendicular to a paper transporting direction. A slide portion provided on the width regulating...     

A top vacuum corrugation feeder with optimized performance for a large variation in sheet sizes is obtained by adjusting the vacuum port area of a vacuum chamber simply by the action of adjusting the paper guides in the paper tray for different sheet sizes.

The present invention provides a sheet supplying apparatus having an extendible sheet support for supporting sheets, a sheet supply for feeding out the sheets supported by the sheet support, a shiftable separating claw capable of separating the sheets fed by the sheet supply, one by one, by engaging...     

The present invention has its object to achieve a reduction in the size and cost of a paper feeding cassette. A cassette body (2) which can contain a plurality of papers is provided with a pair of front-edge guide sections (3) and (3) for positioning the front-edges of the papers, a pair of traverse...     

There is provided an apparatus for conveying a media's size to a printing system. First there is a rotatable shaft. Several cams are formed around the shaft. Each cam has a lobe extending beyond the radius of the shaft. A number of levers, one for each cam, pivot about a pivot point and have a tab that...