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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 26, 1997
Barry P Mandel, Fairport, NY (US);
Richard P Ficarra, Ontario, NY (US);
Frederick A Green, Fairport, NY (US);
Richard A Van Dongen, Newark, NY (US);
Don S Walker, Rochester, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
In a sheet handling system with an array of multiple individual sheet stacking bins and a sheet feeding system for feeding sheets from a sheet feeding output nip thereof into selected bins, for stacking of the sheets into the selected the bins, with relative movement between the sheet feeding system and the multiple individual sheet stacking bins; an automatic nip extending system is provided for automatically moving the sheet feeding output nip out into an individual bin for improved sheet control for the feeding of sheets into the bin, and an automatic nip retracting system for automatically moving the sheet feeding output nip out of the bins for unobstructed relative movement between the sheet feeding system and the sheet stacking bins, in coordination with the relative movement between the sheet feeding system and the multiple individual sheet stacking bins. The nip extending system preferably includes a repositionable extended loop sheet feeding belt.