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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 01, 1999
Franz Allmendinger, Aichwald, DE;
NexPress Solutions LLC, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A device for delivering, depositing, and aligning sheets in a stack container of an apparatus by a sheet handling device. The sheet handling device includes a delivery mechanism delivering sheets along a sheet delivery direction, and a sheet deposition mechanism. The sheet deposition mechanism, driven in a circulating fashion, has a sheet alignment and hold-down member. The delivered and deposited sheets are aligned against a sheet stop lying at right angles to the sheet delivery direction and are held down on the sheet stack container. To provide precise, reliable, and rapid stacking of sheets, the sheet deposition mechanism is independently controlled for completely guided lowering and deposition of a delivered sheet. Moreover, the sheet deposition mechanism and the sheet alignment and hold-down member can be operated in a discontinuously circulating fashion and in synchronism with sheet delivery. Further, the sheet deposition mechanism is provided with a conveying device having at least one resilient finger for carrying a delivered sheet such that by the fingers, during their lowering movement, a delivered and fed-in sheet is carried at one of its end regions and can be lowered and deposited onto the sheet stack in uniform and completely guided fashion.