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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 1990
Filed:
Dec. 27, 1988
Allan J Rood, Boulder, CO (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A xerographic reproduction device is disclosed, the device having a recirculating automatic document feeder that includes a sheet invertor, and a print path that includes a print station, a sheet invertor and a document set accumulator. The set accumulator includes a horizontal tray where at the individual sheets of a document set are stacked, one by one in proper page sequence. A stitcher is mounted in a fixed position at one leading-edge corner of the tray, so as to be coincident with a leading corner of the set. The individual sheets of portrait sets exit the print path and enter the accumulator tray, to reside in the tray with the set's first page on top of the set, facing upward, and with the stitcher located so as to bind the set's upper left hand corner. The individual sheets of landscape sets exit the print path and enter the accumulator tray, to reside in the tray with the set's first page on the bottom of the set, facing downward, and with the stitcher located so as to also bind the set's upper left hand corner.