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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 09, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Nobuyoshi Seki, Okazaki, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 2/920 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 2/920 ;
Abstract
A finisher system for image formed sheets transported from an image forming apparatus. A finisher finishes the image formed sheets. A direct sheet feeding path feeds the image formed sheets to a sheet stacker. A sheet finishing path branches from the direct sheet path and transports the image forming sheets to the sheet stacker by way of the finisher. A sheet piling system is set upstream from a turning point at which the sheet finishing path branches from the direct sheet feeding path along the sheet transport direction and piles up the image formed sheets. A stopper is set upstream from the turning point to temporally trap the image formed sheets.