Method for franking packages individually supplied from a stack by a franking machine

    公开(公告)号:US11420840B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-23

    申请号:US16567826

    申请日:2019-09-11

    Applicant: FRAMA AG

    Abstract: A method for franking packages individually supplied from a stack on a conveyor line to a franking machine, such as envelopes, mailing bags, sleeves, cards, labels, printed products, or the like, which are removed at the lower side of the stack for separation and which are supplied on the upstream conveyor line to a printing mechanism of the franking machine and which, after printing of the packages, are discharged from the franking machine. The packages are supplied on the conveyor portion via a switch to the franking machine and after printing are supplied counter to the supply direction from the printing mechanism of the franking machine via the transposed switch of a depositing device which is provided therebelow for printed packages.

    Sheet post-processor and image forming system

    公开(公告)号:US11370631B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-28

    申请号:US17340749

    申请日:2021-06-07

    Inventor: Terumitsu Noso

    Abstract: A sheet post-processor includes a processing tray, a sheet discharge port, a discharge roller pair, a pair of cursor members, a pair of support members, and an interlocking mechanism. The interlocking mechanism includes a pair of coupling members arranged in the processing tray so as to be reciprocatable in a sheet width direction. The pair of coupling members are coupled to or decoupled from the pair of cursor members in accordance with movement of the pair of cursor members. While being coupled to the pair of cursor members, the pair of coupling members contact the pair of support members so as to displace the pair of support members to a protruding position, and while being decoupled from the pair of cursor members, the pair of coupling members separate from the pair of support members so as to displace the pair of support members to a retracted position.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    14.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220055854A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-24

    申请号:US17517695

    申请日:2021-11-03

    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, an image forming apparatus comprises an image forming section configured to form an image on a sheet; a sheet discharge port through which the sheet is discharged; a sheet conveyance roller configured to convey the sheet to the sheet discharge port; a movable sheet guide, arranged in such a manner that an imaginary line connecting a portion contacting the sheet of the sheet conveyance roller with the sheet discharge port passes through a cross-sectional area, configured to be capable of moving in a direction away from a surface of the sheet; and a guide sensor configured to detect movement of the movable sheet guide.

    SHEET DISCHARGE DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20210387826A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-16

    申请号:US17343562

    申请日:2021-06-09

    Inventor: Takuro MORITA

    Abstract: A sheet discharge device includes a discharge member and a control part. When a sheet is discharged to a first offset position, the control part shifts the discharge member to a first reception position separated from a home position in a second direction by a second distance shorter than a first distance, and shifts the discharge member to a first discharge position separated from the first reception position in the first direction by the first distance after the sheet is received. When the sheet is discharged to a second offset position, the control part shifts the discharge member to a second reception position separated from the home position in the first direction by the second distance, and shifts the discharge member to a second discharge position separated from the second reception position in the second direction by the first distance after the sheet is received.

    Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US11192740B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-07

    申请号:US15983564

    申请日:2018-05-18

    Inventor: Kohei Mizuguchi

    Abstract: A sheet conveying apparatus includes a sheet conveying member; a guide portion configured to define a sheet conveying path; a pressing portion configured to press the sheet to curve the sheet as viewed in a sheet conveying direction in the sheet conveying path; and a moving portion movable by an edge of the sheet passing through the sheet conveying path and arranged so that at least a part of a movable range of the moving portion is overlapped with the pressing portion. The moving portion includes a first abutment portion configured to abut against the sheet passing through the sheet conveying path on one side in the width direction with respect to a conveyance center of the sheet conveying member and a second abutment portion configured to abut against the sheet passing through the sheet conveying path on the other side with respect to the conveyance center.

    SHEET CONVEYING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM THEREWITH

    公开(公告)号:US20210284478A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-16

    申请号:US17197299

    申请日:2021-03-10

    Abstract: A sheet conveying device includes a sheet conveying passage, an upper conveying guide provided in the sheet conveying passage and facing the upper surface of a sheet, a lower conveying guide facing the lower surface of the sheet, a conveying member conveying the sheet along the sheet conveying passage, a sheet stack tray arranged above the upper conveying guide. The upper conveying guide is swingable up and down, with one end part of it in the sheet conveying direction or in the sheet width direction perpendicular to the sheet conveying direction serving as a pivot shaft. The sheet stack tray has a movable part making contact with the upper conveying guide at least when it swings, and the movable part is movable between a sheet receiving position where it forms a sheet stack surface and a retracted position where it has swung upward from the sheet receiving position.

    FLAP TO DIRECT MEDIUM
    19.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20210187978A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-24

    申请号:US16093494

    申请日:2016-08-26

    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a device including a flap. In examples, the device includes a star wheel to advance a medium along an output media path; and a flap disposed to cover the star wheel in a first position and to be moved by a force applied by a medium being advanced along the output media path to a second position. In examples, the medium is to be directed toward an output tray when the flap is in the second position.

    Sheet conveying device, image forming apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US10955787B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-23

    申请号:US16748005

    申请日:2020-01-21

    Inventor: Koji Tanio

    Abstract: A flange portion extending outward from a main shaft portion is disposed outside a side plate with respect to a position of an attachment member in a main direction when the attachment member is mounted to the side plate. A restriction slot is formed in the attachment member such that the flange portion can be fitted in and pass through the restriction slot. In the middle of the process where the attachment member is mounted to a second side plate in the main direction, the flange portion is fitted in the restriction slot, thereby the sheet detecting member is restricted from rotating, and one of a pair of projection portions of a sheet guide member is inserted in a hole of the attachment member.

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