High operator efficiency duplicating system

Abstract

In order to make utmost use of the time and effort of an operator, a duplication system has been devised in which first the duplicator equipment feeds the copy paper along a linear path while producing the copies, the path then turns, and the copy is fed by a direction changing means in a direction substantially normal to the original path into a sheet distributor which has its unloading apertures arranged so as to be convenient to an operator standing at an operator station beside the discharge end of the duplicator device at the operation side thereof. The distributor is of a type such that the unloading openings are exposed to operator access at or slightly above waist level, and is preferably a rotary distributor capable of moving the filled pockets to a fixed unloading position. A work surface extends from a point adjacent the sheet distributor to a point near the input end of the duplicator, and may include a power sheet jogger at its end near the distributor, and operator desk means at its other end for receipt and organization of incoming work. In a preferred form, the direction changing means and the distributor are arranged to be of a width more than double the usual sheet dimension so as to allow use of alternate halves thereof to permit, for example, unloading one-half of the distributor while the other half is being loaded by a subsequent job.