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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Naho Saitoh, Toride, JP;
Yoshifumi Takehara, Abiko, JP;
Kazuyuki Iwamoto, Kashiwa, JP;
Kenichi Hayashi, Kashiwa, JP;
Wataru Kawata, Kashiwa, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 3/304 ; B65H 3/902 ; B65H 3/905 ; B65H 3/907 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 3/304 ; B65H 3/902 ; B65H 3/905 ; B65H 3/907 ;
Abstract
A sheet processing apparatus has a first stacker for stacking discharged sheets; a feeder for feeding a set of sheets from the first stacker; and second stacker for stacking the set of sheets fed by the feeder. A shifting device shifts the sheets stacked on the first stacker and; a controller groups the sheets in a set into a plurality of groups of sheets, and stacks, shifts and feeds the sheets, for each group, to the first stacker, and stacks the set of sheets on the second stacker.