Sheet post-process device with standby tray

• US 7,306,213 B2
• Filed: 03/22/2005
• Issued: 12/11/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Terao, Yasunobu, Sugizaki, Yoshiaki, Yamamoto, Mikio, Iijima, Tomomi, Taki, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Crawford, Gene O.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NICHOLSON III, LESLIE AUGUST
• Application Number:
  US11/085,248
• Publication Number:
  US 20060066041A1
• Time in Patent Office: 994 Days
• Field of Search: 270/58.08, 270/58.11, 270/58.12, 270/58.13, 270/58.14, 270/58.18, 399/410, 271/189, 271/190, 271/191, 271/192
• US Class Current: 270/58.08
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 29/34 from supports slid from under the articles
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 29/52 Stationary guides or smoothers

Abstract

Above a processing tray, a standby tray for making sheets of paper P stand by is installed. The sheets of paper P on the standby tray are dropped, fed, and moved to the processing tray, thus the conveying path from the standby tray to the processing tray is shortened. A conveyor belt is arranged at an angle with the processing tray so that the front end side of the sheets is positioned higher than the rear end side thereof and the conveyor belt on the front end side of the sheets is projected from the processing tray. By doing this, frictional force of the conveyor belt with the sheets of paper P on the rear end side is made smaller, and frictional force with the sheets of paper P on the front end side is made larger, and the ejectability of sheets from the processing tray after ending of the post process is improved.

Claims

1. A sheet post-process apparatus, comprising:

a standby tray that makes sheets ejected from an image forming apparatus stand by,

a processing tray arranged under said standby tray that loads said sheets dropped and fed from said standby tray or sheets ejected from said image forming apparatus not via said standby tray,

a processing mechanism that post-processes said sheets loaded on said processing tray,

a conveyor belt arranged at a different slope from that of said processing tray so that a front end side of said conveyor belt is positioned higher than a rear end side of said conveyor belt, the front end side of said conveyor belt being projected above a support face of said sheets on said processing tray and making contact with a lowest sheet on said processing tray, and a rear end of the conveyer belt being arranged lower than the support face of the processing tray and

a paper ejection tray that at least loads said sheets after ending of said post process to be ejected by said conveyor belt.

2. The sheet post-process apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a stopper arranged in an eject direction end side of said sheets of said processing tray, and

a paddle that aligns said sheets by striking an end side of said sheets loaded on said processing tray together with said stopper.

3. The sheet post-process apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said conveyor belt has a feed pawl for hooking said rear ends of said sheets so to convey said sheets for said paper ejection tray.

4. The sheet post-process apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said processing mechanism is a stapler for bundling the plurality of sheets loaded on said processing tray.

5. The sheet post-process apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said standby tray is composed of at least a pair of tray members for respectively supporting both sides of said sheets and slides and moves said tray members to drop and feed said sheets onto said processing tray.

6. The sheet post-process apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said standby tray is composed of at least a pair of tray members for respectively supporting both sides of said sheets and rotates and moves said tray members to drop and feed said sheets onto said processing tray.

7. The sheet post-process apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said paper ejection tray can load said sheets ejected from said standby tray not via said processing tray.

8. A sheet post-process apparatus, comprising:

standby means for making sheets ejected from an image forming apparatus stand by,

loading means arranged under said standby means for loading said sheets dropped and fed from said standby means or sheets ejected from said image forming apparatus not via said standby means,

processing means for post-processing said sheets loaded on said loading means,

conveying means for conveying said sheets on said standby means in a conveying direction, the conveying means being arranged at said loading means so that a front end side of said conveying means is positioned higher than a rear end side of said conveying means, the front end side of the conveying means being projected above a support face of said sheets on said loading means and making contact with a lowest sheet on said loading means, and a rear end of the conveyer means being arranged lower than the support face of the loading means and

paper ejection means for at least loading said sheets after ending of said post process to be ejected by said conveying means.

9. The sheet post-process apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising a stopper means for striking an end side of eject direction of said sheets loaded on said loading means,

paddle means for aligning said sheets by striking an end side of said sheets loaded on said loading means together with said stopper means.

10. The sheet post-process apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said conveying means has a feed pawl for hooking said rear ends of said sheets so to convey said sheets for said paper ejection means.

11. The sheet post-process apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said processing means is a stapler that bundles said plurality of sheets loaded on said loading means.

12. The sheet post-process apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said standby means includes at least a pair of tray members for respectively supporting both sides of said sheets and slides and moves said tray members to drop and feed said sheets onto said loading means.

13. The sheet post-process apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said standby means includes at least a pair of tray members for respectively supporting both sides of said sheets and rotates and moves said tray members to drop and feed said sheets onto said loading means.

14. The sheet post-process apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said paper ejection means can load said sheets ejected from said standby means not via said loading means.