Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Nobuoto Hattori

Kiyoshi Miyashita

Muneo Kasuga

Hiroshi Tsuda

Akira Shimizu

Katsuhiko Kimura

Norio Amemiya

Fumitaka Ozeki

Masaru Yamazaki

In a collator for use in combination with an electrophotographic copying machine which discharges copies of originals in succession at the same time interval, deflection claws for delivering successive copies of a manuscript into successive bins are provided at inlets of respective bins and two endless belts each having an actuator for driving the deflection claws are provided movably along the successive bins. The two endless belts are driven by two different controlling circuits, respectively in an independent manner. During the copy delivering operation by the first endless belt for a plurality of copies of a certain document, it is possible to initiate the copy delivering operation by the second endless belt for a plurality of copies of the next document.

Collator

A collator includes a series of twenty bins arranged in parallel with each other. A copy feeding member feeds copies supplied from a copying machine along inlets of the successive bins. First and second deflecting devices are arranged at uppermost two bins for delivering the copies into the uppermost two bins. A distributor is movable between the third bin and the twentieth bin for delivering the copies into the bins. An extra tray is provided separately from the bins. The collator further comprises a collate mode selecting member, a job separation mode selecting member and a non-collate mode selecting member. While the collator processes the copies of a certain document under any one of the collate, job separation and non-collate modes, for instance the collate mode, any one of the job separation and non-collate modes, for instance the job separation mode, to be effected for copies of the next document can be reserved, and the collator is automatically switched from the collate mode into the reserved job separation mode upon completion of the previous collate mode.

Collator with collate mode, non-collate mode and job separation mode

A collator includes a series of twenty bins arranged in parallel with each other, a copy feeding member for feeding copies supplied from a copying machine along inlets of the successive bins, first and second deflecting devices arranged at the uppermost two bins for delivering the copies into the uppermost two bins and a distributor movable between the third bin and the twentieth bin for delivering the copies into the bins. The collator can treat the copies in a job separation mode in which all copies of each documents are delivered into respective bins in succession, while the distributor is advanced bin by bin in response to a distributor advance signal produced by a variable timer which is actuated upon detection of the rear edge of the last copy of an Nth original by an entrance switch to set a time period represented by b+(N-1).times.a/V.sub.1, wherein a is a pitch between successive bins, b is a distance from the entrance switch to the first bin and V.sub.1 is a copy feed speed in the collator.

Collator with collate mode and job separation mode

A light scanning device comprising a number of photoelectric conversion elements arranged beneath a light transmission member along the main scanning direction for a manuscript and spaced apart from each other by a given pitch and an opaque member disposed on the light transmission member and provided therein with openings each opposed to each of the photoelectric conversion elements.

Light scanning device

An optical scanner includes a multi-faceted rotating mirror which reflects light beam from a laser unit, and a condenser lens which focuses the beam as a scanning spot on a scanning surface. An anamorphic optical system comprising a cylindrical lens is disposed between the mirror and the surface, and focuses the beam on the surface in the scan direction, but focuses the beam on a plane short of the scanning surface in a direction perpendicular to the scan direction. An optical element having a magnification of projection which is equal to or less than unity and having a refracting or focussing force only in a direction perpendicular to the scan direction is disposed between the plane and the scanning surface.

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Hachioji, Japan

Nobuoto Hattori