Abstract:
A sheet sorting device having a plurality of bin trays has a resilient member for imparting to a bin tray support member a force in the direction opposite to the direction of gravity and reducing a load applied to a bin tray drive source. A detecting device for stopping the driving of the drive source detects the movement of the drive source when the drive source moves up or down relative to the bin trays. Drive source has two lead portions, smooths the movement of the bin group and makes the amount of opening between the bins always constant.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a variable magnification image formation apparatus wherein an image of an original is formed on a photosensitive member by the use of a zoom lens assembly of the type in which the focal length is changed by rotating a zoom ring about the optical axis and wherein the zoom ring is rotated by wire in synchronism with movement of the zoom lens assembly.
Abstract:
This specification discloses a copying apparatus in which a first and a second reflector are movable at a velocity ratio of 1:1/2 to scan an image original and the first reflector is displaced by magnification change operation. A movable pulley is provided to a support member for the second reflector. A wire having one end secured in place within the apparatus is passed over the movable pulley and the other end portion thereof is wound on a drive pulley. A support member for the first reflector is secured to the wire between the movable pulley and the drive pulley. The wire is passed over a first pulley displaceable by magnification change operation, between that end of the wire secured in place and the securing point of the wire to the first reflector supporting member. The wire is also passed over a second pulley displaceable by magnification change operation, between the securing point of the wire to the first reflector supporting member and the drive pulley. The first and second pulleys are integrally displaceable.
Abstract:
An original document feeder is provided with a first sheet path for guiding a document from stacker to below after inversion, a second sheet path branched from the first sheet path in a switchback fashion for guiding the sheet to a process position, and a third sheet path branched from the first sheet path in a switchback fashion for discharging the sheet, discharged from the process position, to a receiver after inversion.
Abstract:
A sheet sorting device having a plurality of bin trays has a resilient member for imparting to a bin tray support member a force in the direction opposite to the direction of gravity and reducing a load applied to a bin tray drive source. A detecting device for stopping the driving of the drive source detects the movement of the drive source when the drive source moves up or down relative to the bin trays. A cam member has two lead portions, smooths the movement of the bin group and makes the amount of opening between the bins always constant.
Abstract:
An original feeding device has a supporting device for supporting originals thereon, a partition sheet inserted between a plurality of aggregations of originals supported on the supporting device for the partition of the aggregations of originals, a feed device for feeding the supported originals one by one, a sheet path for directing the originals fed by the feed device to an original processing station, and a device provided in the sheet path to detect the partition sheet fed by the feed device and detect the partition between the aggregations of originals.
Abstract:
An automatic sheet feeder for feeding a sheet to a processing station to record the information on the sheet. Also, an image recording apparatus provided with such an automatic sheet feeder. The automatic sheet feeder includes a sheet stacking tray for supporting a stack of sheets, a feeder for feeding one by one the sheets out of the stack, a processing station for effecting a required processing to the surface of the sheet bearing the information to be recorded, which is being advanced by the feeder, and a conveyor for returning the sheet which has passed through the processing station to the stacking tray.
Abstract:
A variable magnification copying apparatus which includes a first shaft having thereon a plurality of gears different in diameter, a second shaft having thereon a plurality of gears different in diameter, the gears of smaller diameters on the second shaft corresponding to the gears of larger diameters on the first shaft, a cam shaft having thereon a plurality of cams corresponding to the pairs of gears on the first and second shafts, a lever biased so as to bear against each of the cams, and a relay gear rotatably supported on each of the levers, and in which the movement of the levers is controlled by intermittent rotation of the cam shaft, the gears on the first shaft are operatively associated with the gears on the second shaft through the relay gears on the controlled levers, and the number of relative rotations of the first and second shafts is varied by the gear ratio of the operatively associated gears, whereby the ratio of the original scanning velocity to the velocity of a photosensitive medium is changed correspondingly to a selected magnification.
Abstract:
A mechanism for mounting and dismounting a screen-like photosensitive medium having a number of fine openings with respect to an apparatus body. It is known to form a screen-like photosensitive medium into the shape of a drum, but according to the present invention, the photosensitive medium and a gear for driving the photosensitive medium are constructed independently of each other to leave the gear on the apparatus body side, and a device for directing a current applied to the photosensitive medium side is provided inside of the gear with a sliding member interposed therebetween. The side surface of the photosensitive medium which corresponds to the gear is provided with a construction similar to the gear portion, thereby facilitating the mounting and dismounting of the screen-like photosensitive medium with respect to the apparatus body.
Abstract:
A cleaning apparatus for an electrophotographic apparatus comprising an elastic cleaning blade with a holder arranged along a surface of a photosensitive member for cleaning the toners which still remain on the surface of a photosensitive member even after transferring of developed images to a copying paper is finished. The elastic cleaning blade preferably contacts with the surface of the photosensitive member in such a way that the axis of the blade and a tangent to said surface at the pre-cleaning side subtends an obtuse angle specified in relation with the axis line of the blade in the holder. The holder disposes the elastic cleaning blade relative to the photosensitive member to engage a substantially upwardly moving surface portion of the photosensitive member.