摘要:
A saddle stitcher apparatus (90) for forming completely finished reproduction sets of a series of reproductions produced on sheets, respectively by a reproduction apparatus (12), is one of a group of modular devices (30, 50, 70, 90, 150) of a modular finisher apparatus (10). The saddle stitcher apparatus (90) comprises a support frame (118) including means (100) for mating with means for detachably accepting the saddle stitcher with a housing (32) of the modular finisher apparatus (10). Means associated with the support frame (118) define a sheet feed path (P₃) communicating with reproduction sheet receiving means (E). The saddle stitcher apparatus (90) comprises means (96) for stapling the registered sheets at the mid-line thereof, means (94) for folding a stapled set along the mid-line thereof, and an output hopper (98) for collecting folded stapled reproduction sets.
摘要:
A saddle stitcher apparatus (90) for forming completely finished reproduction sets of a series of reproductions produced on sheets, respectively by a reproduction apparatus (12), is one of a group of modular devices (30, 50, 70, 90, 150) of a modular finisher apparatus (10). The saddle stitcher apparatus (90) comprises a support frame (118) including means (100) for mating with means for detachably accepting the saddle stitcher with a housing (32) of the modular finisher apparatus (10). Means associated with the support frame (118) define a sheet feed path (P₃) communicating with reproduction sheet receiving means (E). The saddle stitcher apparatus (90) comprises means (96) for stapling the registered sheets at the mid-line thereof, means (94) for folding a stapled set along the mid-line thereof, and an output hopper (98) for collecting folded stapled reproduction sets.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes a finite length recirculating duplex path (69) without a duplex tray and having an inverter (68). A receiving sheet is delayed in the inverter (68) by a time which is variable in order to vary the recirculating path time. Preferably, the time is varied according to the length of receiving sheet used so that maximum usage can be made of the image forming apparatus. A preferred inverter includes entrance (23) and exit (25) nips and a stop (3) at the end of a paper chute. The stop (3) is positioned to receive the leading edge of a sheet fed into the chute and hold the sheet through a variable time delay. The stop (3) is then moved toward the exit nip at the end of the time delay to begin to move the receiving sheet out of the inverter. The receiving position of the stop (3) is variable to receive sheets of different intrack length.