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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 23, 1994
Akira Hirose, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Fujii, Omiya, JP;
Yoshihide Sugiyama, Nagoya, JP;
Kunihiro Uotani, Nagoya, JP;
Fumitaka Hyoudou, Nagoya, JP;
Ricoh Company Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A sheet sorting and storing apparatus has a stack of bin trays which are brought open at a sheet reception position, but held close at the other position. The apparatus minimizes noises upon sheet reception with a simple mechanism, improving the efficiency of sheet sorting. The bin trays are inclined down or up depending on a position of a sheet discharge device. A desired bin tray is deviated by a deviation mechanism in an approximately horizontal direction so that a spacing in the direction of the tray inclination is enlarged between two adjacent bin trays located at the sheet reception position, while keeping constant a vertical spacing thereof. A flexible film of elastic material may be provided at the sheet entrance side of the bin trays to prevent the discharged sheet from leaping out thereof.