SHEET POST-PROCESS APPARATUS

• US 20060066038A1
• Filed: 03/22/2005
• Published: 03/30/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Taki, Hiroyuki, Yamamoto, Hajime, Murakami, Reiji, Sugizaki, Yoshiaki, Terao, Yasunobu
• Granted Patent: US 7,222,843 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 270/58.110
• CPC Class Codes: B42C 1/12 Machines for both collating or gathering and permanently attaching together the sheets or signatures
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2220/09 indicating that several of an entity are present
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2405/11151 with surface inclined upwardly in transport direction
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 29/34 from supports slid from under the articles
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 31/34 Apparatus for squaring-up piled articles
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 33/14 by diverting batches to separate receivers B65H33/16 takes precedence; article switches or diverters B65H29/58

Abstract

A sheet post-process apparatus has a standby tray for putting a sheet delivered from an image forming apparatus on standby, a process tray arranged under the standby tray for stacking the sheet dropped from the standby tray or the sheet delivered from the image forming apparatus not through the standby tray, a matching mechanism for matching a lateral direction of the sheet stacked on the process tray by a lateral matching plate to form a sheet bundle, a post-process mechanism for post-processing the sheet bundle matched by the matching mechanism, and a delivery tray for delivering the sheet bundle post-processed by the post-process mechanism, in which the process tray and the standby tray are arranged so as to make a height of an upper end of the lateral matching plate of the process tray higher than a height of a lower end of the standby tray.

Claims

1. A sheet post-process apparatus comprising:

a standby tray for putting a sheet delivered from an image forming apparatus on standby;

a process tray arranged under the standby tray for stacking the sheet dropped from the standby tray or the sheet delivered from the image forming apparatus not through the standby tray;

a matching mechanism for matching a lateral direction of the sheet stacked on the process tray by a lateral matching plate to form a sheet bundle;

a post-process mechanism for post-processing the sheet bundle matched by the matching mechanism; and

a delivery tray for delivering the sheet bundle post-processed by the post-process mechanism;

wherein the process tray and the standby tray are arranged so as to make a height of an upper end of the lateral matching plate of the process tray higher than a height of a lower end of the standby tray.

2. The sheet post-process apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the process tray and the standby tray are arranged so as to make the height of the upper end of the lateral matching plate of the process tray higher than the height of the lower end of the standby tray.

3. The sheet post-process apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the lower end of the standby tray is engaged in a comb-like teeth state with the upper end of the lateral matching plate.

4. The sheet post-process apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the process tray and the standby tray are arranged so as to make the height of the upper end of the lateral matching plate of the process tray substantially the same as the height of the lower end of the standby tray.

5. A sheet post-process apparatus comprising:

sheet standby means for putting a sheet delivered from an image forming apparatus on standby;

sheet stacking means arranged under the sheet standby means for stacking the sheet dropped from the sheet standby means or the sheet delivered from the image forming apparatus not through the sheet standby means;

sheet matching means for matching a lateral direction of the sheet stacked on the sheet stacking means by a lateral matching plate to form a sheet bundle;

post-process means for post-processing the sheet bundle matched by the sheet matching means; and

sheet bundle delivery means for delivering the sheet bundle post-processed by the post-process means,

wherein the sheet stacking means and the sheet standby means are arranged so as to make a height of an upper end of the lateral matching plate of the sheet stacking means higher than a height of a lower end of the sheet standby means.

6. The sheet post-process apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the sheet stacking means and the sheet standby means are arranged so as to make the height of the upper end of the lateral matching plate of the sheet stacking means higher than the height of the lower end of the sheet standby means.

7. The sheet post-process apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the lower end of the sheet standby means is engaged in a comb-like teeth state with the upper end of the lateral matching plate.

8. The sheet post-process apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the sheet stacking means and the sheet standby means are arranged so as to make the height of the upper end of the lateral matching plate of the sheet stacking means substantially the same as the height of the lower end of the sheet standby means.