Abstract: A paper handling apparatus 10 includes a plurality of paper receiving trays 12, 14, 16, 18 arranged vertically in close proximity to one another with a single paper feeding mechanism 20 provided to operate with all of the trays 12, 14, 16, 18. The paper feeding mechanism 20 moves vertically to selectively engage any selected one of the plurality of trays 12, 14, 16, 18. The vertical arrangement of the trays 12, 14, 16, 18 dictates that the trays are horizontally moveable between a first unselected position, where the trays are substantially vertically aligned with the one another, and a second selected position where the tray is horizontally moved to intersect the vertical path of the paper feeding mechanism 20. Horizontal movement of the trays 12, 14 16, 18 is effected by a single electric motor 28 rotatably attached to a shaft 30, which carries a series of gears 32, 34, 36, 38 that interact with a corresponding rack 40, 42, 44, 46 disposed on each of the trays 12, 14, 16, 18, respectively.

Abstract: A sheet dealing apparatus feeds sheets, received within the apparatus, to a user through a sheet delivery portion by an operation of the user or receives the sheets into the sheet dealing apparatus from the user. Also, this operation may be similarly applied to the sheet delivery mode between the sheet dealing apparatus and another sheet dealing apparatus. The sheet delivery portion is contructed so as to be retractable or extensible with respect to a body of the apparatus. A sheet delivery window formed at the delivery portion is variable in position as necessary.

Abstract: A feeding device for enabling continuous copy paper feed from a first and second cassette. When copy material of the same size is stored in a first cassette and an absence of copy material is detected in the first cassette, orientation of the second rotatable cassette is altered, if necessary to coincide with that of the first cassette, and paper feed continues from the second rotatable cassette. Still further, the second rotatable cassette may be selected for continuing copy paper feed if copy material within the first cassette is detected to be less than a predetermined amount.

Abstract: A recording sheet storing apparatus includes a magazine having a removable cover that is adhered to the surface of the magazine. The magazine can be placed into a recording apparatus and the cover can be engaged with a winding device that can reciprocate to remove the cover member and subsequently to reseal it. A transmission system can apply a driving force to the winding means and a driving force to a carriage which supports the winding device as it moves along the magazine.

Abstract: A feeding device in accordance with the present invention includes an arm mounted such that one edge thereof is rotatably supported and is capable of moving freely in the horizontal plane, a rotating section rotatably supported by the other edge of the arm and is capable of rotating freely in the horizontal plane to at least two paper feed positions, i.e. longitudinal and lateral feed positions, and a pivotal paper holding plate that is capable of rising. A rotating device is rotatably mounted in the vicinity of a corner of the rotating section and moves back and forth in a straight line in a direction orthogonal to the paper feed direction and permits the rotating section to rotate.

Abstract: A film sheet load magazine is adapted to hold a stack of superimposed films with at least central portions of the films in a curved configuration and leading ends of the films adjacent a film separator mechanism. The curvature of the films is such that they retain themselves in desired positions in the magazine independent of the orientation of the films with respect to gravity. When a top cover of the magazine is opened, floating primary feed rollers are raised by spring-biasing assemblies to facilitate loading of the films under the rollers, and when the top cover is subsequently closed, the rollers are moved into feeding engagement with an innermost film, and the films are held in position by leaf biasing springs. A cleaning mechanism removes contaminants from the primary feed rollers, which feed each film to secondary feed rollers driven at a faster speed than the primary feed rollers.

Abstract: Apparatus for identifying and indicating the content of document canisters such as those used to hold supplies of documents in Automated Teller Machines (ATMs), includes a canister (10) holding a stack of documents (30) and having a face plate (24). Face plate (24) includes a plurality of buttonholes (26). Spring loaded buttons (25) are distributed among buttonholes (26); the arrangement of said buttons representing items of data such as ownership of the canister, canister serial number, and document information such as the type, denomination, amount, and character of the documents in the canister. In operating position, canister (10) is located in an ATM in contact with a picker mechanism (100) which removes documents, one at a time from the canister. The picker mechanism incorporates a switch plate (126) which is adjacent to face plate (24) when canister (10) and picker mechanism (100) are in operating position.

Abstract: A paper-supplying device in an image-forming apparatus includes a paper-supplying portion to be charged with a paper-housing vessel by moving the latter in a direction of a rotary axis of a shaft of a paper-supplying roller. The vessel is provided with paper-separating clicks for pressing paper at opposite corners thereof on a downstream side thereof in a paper-supplying direction of the paper and an energizing structure for lifting a carrier plate supporting the paper thereon upwardly toward the paper-separating clicks. The roller is movable in the direction of the rotary axis of the shaft thereof. Transfer structure lifts the vessel in an upwardly inclined direction to press the paper against the roller when the paper-supplying portion is charged with the vessel. A member, brought into contact with the vessel before a surface of the paper is brought into contact with the roller and moved in the direction of charging the vessel, is connected with the roller in a relatively rotatable manner.

Abstract: Disclosed are a sheet package and a sheet feeding apparatus in which such a sheet package is preferably employed. The sheet package is comprises a cover for covering a stack of sheets in its entirety and openable by being broken away to expose at least an end portion of the stack of sheets and a member extending outward from the bottom of the stack of sheets. The sheet feeding apparatus is provided with cassette body capable of accomodating the sheet package therein, and a holding portion for fixedly holding the extending member of the sheet package.

Abstract: In a copier or printer a magnetic switch system is often used to indicate or signal the separation, mating, alignment or docking of components movable relative to one another, by the actuation or non-actuation of a magnetic switch on a first such component, such as a fixed frame member, by a magnet or a second such component, such as a manually movable tray, which magnet and magnetic switch are positioned such that as the components are moved together and docked the magnet actuates the magnetic switch.

Abstract: A recording apparatus on which a cut sheet feeder is removably mountable includes an outer case, a feed roller contained in the outer case and rotatable by the power of a drive source, a pinch roller urged against or spaced apart from the feed roller, and a controlling device exposed out of the outer case and engageable with the cut sheet feeder to forcibly control the pinch roller into a state in which it is urged against the feed roller. The cut sheet feeder has a first stacker piling thereon cut sheets to be fed to the recording apparatus, a second stacker piling thereon cut sheets discharged from the recording apparatus, and a controlling device for forcibly controlling the pinch roller into its urged state when the cut sheet feeder is mounted on the recording apparatus.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus having a cassette for containing copy sheets, the cassette being releasable responsive to the opening of an upper cover to cover an upper portion of the apparatus. The image forming apparatus may be further provided with a cartridge for carrying at least one of an image carrying body, developing units and a cleaning unit, and the cartridge is also released responsive to the opening of the upper cover of the image forming apparatus.

Abstract: A sheet transport device is provided which has a sheet tray removably attachable to the body of an apparatus pivotally movably to an upright position or an unfolded position. The sheet tray has pivots projecting from the respective opposite sides of base end of the tray and each having a first width when the tray is in the upright position and a second width larger than the first width when the tray is in the unfolded position. The apparatus body has cutouts for the respective pivots, each having an inlet portion with a width larger than the first width and smaller than the second width and a support portion with a diameter not smaller than the second width. An elastic member is disposed close to at least one of the cutouts for restraining the pivot as positioned in the support portion from rotating from the unfolded position to the upright position by contacting the pivot.

Abstract: Folded products, supplied in dual-comb like interdigited form are transported by a transport chain system (75) carrying grippers (84, 85) in a vertical direction to form a vertical stack. Grippers engage alternate products about their fold line, and hold the interdigited intermediate sheets therebetween. The transport system and a carrier structure are placed in relative positions to permit the grippers of the transport system to pick up the products (1, 2) at the fold line and, after reorienting the products, to place them in a vertical stack on a support (96, 110), a cam track (88) opening the grippers on the transport system (75) as the grippers pass about a vertically movable deflection wheel (97) to release the products. The deflection wheel moves upwardly as the stack grows.

Abstract: A sheet supply system utilizes a cassette for holding a stack of sheets. The cassette includes an interlocking member formed on the bottom of the cassette which cooperates with an upstanding orienting member on a cassette receiving tray. The interlocking members permit orientation of the cassette on the tray in two positions, which are orthogonal to each other. Fringe marks on the tray delineate the marginal edge of cassettes to be placed on the tray, in each position the cassette can be oriented on the tray. The arrangement eliminates the need for movable guide members to position differently sized cassette on the tray or to position cassettes in different orientations on the tray.

Abstract: A sheet feeding device, includes a lift down sensor for detecting a rotating plate of a rotatable cassette lowered down to a planar position, a lift up sensor for detecting the rotating plate lifted up to a sheet feeding position, a lateral feed position detecting sensor for detecting the rotatable cassette situated in the lateral feeding position, a longitudinal feed position detecting sensor for detecting the rotatable cassette situated in the longitudinal feeding position, and control means for controlling the drive mechanisms of the sheet feeding device. In the rotating operation of the rotatable cassette, if the lift down sensor is not turned on, the rotating plate is lowered so as to turn on the lift down sensor, thereafter the rotatable cassette is rotated to the predetermined longitudinal or lateral feeding position, and after the lateral or longitudinal feed position detecting sensor is turned on, the rotating plate is lifted up until the lift up sensor is turned on.

Abstract: A sheet supplying device supplies a sheet to a sheet supplied apparatus which has a predetermined maximum size of the sheet capable of being supplied thereto. The sheet supplying device includes a movable cassette for placing the sheet thereon and movable to at least two transport positions so as to transport the sheet therefrom to the sheet supplied apparatus in at least two transparent directions, and a driving device, to which a driving order is given, for moving the movable cassette to at least two transport positions in response to the driving order. The sheet supplying device further includes a control device, to which the size of the sheet placed on the movable cassette is input, for stopping the driving motion of the driving device prior to the driving order if the input size of the sheet exceeds the maximum size when the movable cassette is moved.

Abstract: A cassette loading and unloading device for loading and unloading a cassette which typically accommodates an exposed film carrying image information includes a pair of guides for holding a cassette therebetween, the guides being relatively displaceable depending on the size of the cassette to be held therebetween, a cassette holder for displacing the guides to a position in which to open a lid of the cassette, while the cassette is being held by the guides, and a displacing mechanism for returning the cassette holder to an original position and allowing the cassette to be removed from the guides. The guides include a fixed guide and a movable guide, which are relatively movable to define a space therebetween that matches the size of a selected cassette.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a main body, a paper-feed unit, a paper-feed unit openably and closably supported by the main body of the apparatus, a tray openably and closably supported by the paper-feed unit so as to be swingable between a non-operating position wherein the tray is housed in the paper-feed unit in a generally vertical state and an operating position for mounting a sheet material wherein the tray is opened from the paper-feed unit and is positioned in a generally horizontal state, and a stopper provided in the main body of the apparatus for holding the tray at the operating position contacting the tray. The paper-feed unit can be opened and closed while the tray is held at the operating position.

Abstract: A sheet supplying device has at least one sheet stacking portion for stacking a plurality of sheets to be fed, a unit for drawing the sheets out of the sheet stacking portion to feed the drawn sheet to a predetermined path, and a unit for returning a sheet into the sheet stacking portion. This sheet is drawn by the drawing unit but stayed in a position that the leading edge thereof is out of the sheet stacking portion.

Abstract: A printer includes two printing sheet outlets each provided with a stacker mount on which a detachable stacker constituted as a single unit can be mounted. The stacker comprises a cut sheet supporting portion and an eject roller for ejecting cut sheets onto the supporting portion. A driving force is transmitted from a single drive source to the respective stacker mounts so that, when the stacker is selectively mounted on one of the mounts, the eject roller of the stacker can be operatively connected to the drive source and can be driven.

Abstract: Apparatus for automatically feeding workpieces of limp material one at a time and one after another from a stack thereof to a device for operating thereon, e.g. for feeding plies of fabric from a stack of plies to sewing apparatus, comprising an endless conveyor having spaced flights and gaps. The stack of workpieces is held under an upper reach of the conveyor. A pick-up is operable through the gaps to grasp the top workpiece of the stack and pick it up with the workpiece extending down into the gap for engagement of the bottom surface of the workpiece by the oncoming flight of the conveyor to complete the separation of the workpiece from the stack and to bring it to lie generally flat on the oncoming flight.

Abstract: An electronic photo-copying apparatus in accordance with the present invention comprises: at least one paper feed device comprising a paper feed cassette rotatably supported so as to move in the feeding direction thereof interchangeably between the longitudinal and lateral directions and a driving device for rotating the paper feed unit; and, a control device for controlling the paper feed device so as to permit it to switch the feeding direction of copy paper interchangeably between the longitudinal and lateral feeding directions by rotating the paper feed device by the driving device regardless of operation conditions of an electronic photo-copying apparatus main body.

Abstract: A sheet store, such as a banknote cassette, comprises a container having an access opening. The access opening is provided with a closure member and a locking device for locking the closure member in the closed position. The locking device includes an electrically conductive non-ferromagnetic member supported for movement between locked and unlocked positions. The member is biased to one of the positions and caused to move to the other of the positions in response to the generation of a magnetic field in the vicinity of the member.

Abstract: An inclined cassette for holding and indexing a stack of planar items. The cassette includes a floor that is inclined at an angle sufficient to overcome the coefficient of friction of the planar items such that they slide to the lowermost corner of the floor. Two upstanding wall portions intersect each other at the lowermost corner to align the cards in a vertical stack, i.e., in a stack at an angle to the vertical. An elongated opening is provided in the wall portions at the corner, which opening extends upwardly from the location of the floor. The cassette further includes a base means for supporting the cassette in the inclined manner and in a manner that precisely locates the cassette for repeatable automatic removal of the planar items from the cassette.

Abstract: In an apparatus for the feeding of individual sheets (1) into office machines (2) in which the individual sheets (1) form a stack (3) of sheets atop which rotatively-driven fixed delivery rolls (4) rest and from which individual sheets (1) can be drawn over separating corners (5) of a paper-receiving frame (6), the stack (3) of sheets lies on a spring-action swing plate (8) between lateral paper-guide frames (7a, 7b). The invention provides for selectively alternative use, for supporting the sheet stack (3), of either the fixed paper-receiving frame (6) or of a separate and additional paper cassette (12) which is engageable with the machine (2) such that the spacing between the separating corners (30) on the cassette (12) and the circumference of the delivery rolls (4), when the cassette is mounted on the machine (2), is the same as the normal spacing between the separating corners (5) on the paper-receiving frame (6) and the circumference of the delivery rolls (4).

Abstract: A sheet feeder for an image forming apparatus implemented as a unit which is removable from a body of the apparatus and can be positioned relative to the apparatus body with accuracy. Side plates which form a part of a housing each has a bent portion through which a hole is formed, and a projection provided with a notch. The holes of the side plates are individually mated with positioning pins which are studded on two posts of the image forming apparatus, while the notches are individually mated with positioning pins which are affixed to a bottom panel of the apparatus.

Abstract: There is disclosed a paper feeder for a copying machine, including a paper feeding tray sub-member having guiding projections and stoppers for properly loading a paper feeding tray, a pivot for pivotally mounting the paper feeding tray sub-member in the position adjacent to a paper guide, a lever mounted on the underside of the paper feeding tray sub-member, and a slanting position fixing member attached to the body of the copying machine for fixing the lever and thus the slanting position of the paper feeding tray sub-member.

Abstract: A paper handling apparatus 10 includes a plurality of paper receiving trays 12, 14, 16, 18 arranged vertically in close proximity to one another with a single paper feeding mechanism 20 provided to operate with all of the trays 12, 14, 16, 18. The paper feeding mechanism 20 moves vertically to selectively engage any selected one of the plurality of trays 12, 14, 16, 18. The vertical arrangement of the trays 12, 14, 16, 18 dictates that the trays are horizontally moveable between a first unselected position, where the trays are substantially vertically aligned with the one another, and a second selected position where the tray is horizontally moved to intersect the vertical path of the paper feeding mechanism 20. Horizontal movement of the trays 12, 14, 16, 18 is effected by a single electric motor 28 rotatably attached to a shaft 30, which carries a series of gears 32, 34, 36, 38 that interact with a corresponding rack 40, 42, 44, 46 disposed on each of the trays 12, 14, 16, 18, respectively.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a rotation transmission mechanism for transmitting the rotation of a drive gear on a printer body side to a driven gear as a rotation power source on a paper feeder side. The present invention includes a gear shaft of the driven gear freely movably disposed on the paper feeder side so that the driven gear engages with the drive gear on the printer body side. In the present invention, when the paper feeder is placed on the printer body, the gear shaft of the driven gear of the paper feeder moves downward from a position it holds when the paper feeder is removed from the printer body, and the driven gear is engaged with the drive gear of the printer body.

Abstract: A sheet feed device for feeding a sheet in a copying machine includes a sheet cassette storing a stack of sheets therein and removably positioned in a housing of the copying machine, and a plurality of suction cups for attracting one of the sheets at a time from the sheet cassette. The suction cups are movable toward and away from the sheet cassette. Locking fingers lock the sheet cassette against removal when the suction cups are moved toward the sheet cassette and are ready for or are feeding sheets from the sheet cassette. The locking fingers are angularly movably supported in the housing and lockingly fittable in recesses defined in side walls of the sheet cassette.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprising rotatable cassettes rotated by cassette rotating means between a longitudinal feeding station from which paper is fed in a longitudinal direction thereof and a lateral feeding station from which paper is fed in a lateral direction thereof, wherein memory means stores a cassette rotation signal, when the cassette rotation signal is entered therein and cassette rotating means is controlled in accordance with the cassette rotation signal stored in the memory means when a cassette rotation permission signal for permitting the rotation of the rotatable cassette is generated, so that the rotatable cassette is set in a predetermined feeding station.The invention also provides an image forming apparatus capable of storing the feeding station of the rotatable cassette in the memory means and rotating the rotatable cassette to the feeding station stored in the memory means when the rotatable cassette is out of both longitudinal feeding station and lateral feeding station.

Abstract: A conveying system comprising two conveyors interconnected for adjustment relative to each other and an arrangement of rollers some of which convey and during a set period others serve as drag against the stock items carried thereon to obtain single item feeding.

Abstract: A swing-up loader for a signature machine serves as an extension for the pile feed mechanism. The loader has its own conveyor belts and drive. When placed in its operating position, the loader adjoins the regular infeed of the signature feeder at a junction. A microswitch senses the height of the signature pile at the junction. When the pile height falls due to removal of signatures at the stockplate, the microswitch calls for movement of the loader's drive belts. This movement transfers signatures on the loader across the junction to the regular infeed of the signature feeder. The loader maintains a full infeed to assure a uniform pressure at the stockplate.

Abstract: A sheet feeding system for an image-forming machine includes a main body having a conveying passage therethrough for guiding sheet materials and a hand insertion feed table pivotally attached to the main body for movement between a feed position in which it can be used to feed sheet materials into the conveying passage and a storage position. The sheet feeding system also includes a separate feed unit which, when the table is in its storage position, can be aligned with the main body so that sheet materials can be fed therefrom into the conveying passage. The conveying passage guides sheet materials to either a receiving section, a sorter or back into the introduction opening of the conveying passage so as to form overlapping images.

Abstract: A document feeding apparatus having a document feed unit adapted to feed documents, which are placed on a stacked document feed tray, sheet by sheet toward a document glass plate in an exposure unit. An auxiliary document feed tray is turnably housed in the document feed tray. The auxiliary document feed tray is turned so as to project over the stacked document feed tray when the documents are fed sheet by sheet by hand so that the front end portion of the auxiliary document feed tray narrows a document feed port of the document feed unit to render the stacked documents difficult to be inserted thereinto.

Abstract: A paper feeding device includes a cassette-receiving section defined in a housing of an apparatus to which the paper feeding device is applied, and a cassette adapted to be detachably loaded into the cassette-receiving section. According to a first aspect, at least one of the cassette or the housing has an inclined portion for conducting the cassette to a cassette-loading opening along a table. According to a second aspect, the under surface of the cassette-receiving section is defined by a first guiding portion extending from the lower edge of the opening for loading, an inclined guiding portion extending in an upwardly inclined manner from the first guiding portion and a second guiding portion extending from the inclined guiding portion.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus of this invention is embodied, for example, in a reader printer. It possesses a stationary upper unit and a lower unit pivotally attached to the rear end part of the upper unit. A paper tray for receiving papers having a transferred image formed thereon is pivotally attached to the leading end of the lower unit. The leading end of the paper tray is slidably supported on the main body of the apparatus. While the lower unit is in the opened state, the leading end part of the tray is positioned at a level higher than the basal end part thereof, with the result that the papers held in the tray are prevented from falling down.

Abstract: A sheet feed apparatus for a copying machine comprises a cassette for holding a stack of sheets to be fed. The cassette is in the form of an open-topped housing containing a base plate for supporting the stack of sheets. A handle is provided which is coupled to a mechanism for raising, preferably tilting, at least part of the base plate right out of the cassette housing to facilitate loading sheets within the tight tolerances of the cassette housing. A rear registration guide and a pair of relatively small side guides are provided which do not impede stack loading but allow the stack to be positioned sufficiently accurately that when the handle--and hence the base plate--is lowered the stack is able to enter the cassette housing without further adjustment.

Abstract: A lighttight box includes a lid movable between a first lighttight position and a second box-opening position. A clamshell film-carrying mechanism, connected to the lid, is mounted for movement (1) for a retracted position internal to the box when the lid is in its lighttight position, to (2) an extracted film-delivery position external to the box when the lid is in its box-opening position. Actuator apparatus includes a lift mechanism, attachable to the lid when the box is in a parked film-delivery position relative to a workstation, movable between a rest position in which the lid is held in its closed position, and an actuated position in which the lid is held in its box-opening position. A motor, coupled to the lift mechanism, serves for driving the lift mechanism between its rest and actuated positions.

Abstract: A foreign substance disposing device for a money receiving and disbursing machine comprising stationary clip plates for clipping the bills therebetween, movable clip plate for clipping the bills, pick out rollers for picking out the bills which are clipped between the stationary and movable clip plates, a pick out motor for controlling an operation of the pick out rollers, a detection coil provided on a circuit board for producing a change in impedance in response to passing of the bills, impedance detector for detecting the change in the impedance of the coil, controller for judging whether or not the bills passing the coil are accompanied by a foreign substance based on signals from the impedance detector and for providing the pick out rollers with a control signal for preventing the pick out rollers from picking the bills out when a foreign substance is detected, and alarm for receiving signals from the controller and producing an alarm signal.

Abstract: An electrostatographic machine which includes means for forming an electrostatic latent image on an imaging member; means for developing the electrostatic latent image with a developer material; means for transferring, at a transfer station, the developed image to a copy sheet; a copy sheet system for conveying copy sheets to and from the transfer station and means for fusing the developed image to the copy sheet. The copy sheet system is withdrawable from the rest of the machine as a module comprising substantially the entire path through which copy sheets are moved during operation of the machine.

Abstract: Apparatus for identifying and indicating the content of document canisters such as those used to hold supplies of documents in Automated Teller Machines (ATMs), includes a canister (10) holding a stack of documents (30) and having a face plate (24). Face plate (24) includes a plurality of buttonholes (26). Spring loaded buttons (25) are distributed among buttonholes (26); the arrangement of said buttons representing items of data such as ownership of the canister, canister serial number, and document information such as the type, denomination, amount, and character of the documents in the canister. In operating position, canister (10) is located in an ATM in contact with a picker mechanism (100) which removes documents, one at a time from the canister. The picker mechanism incorporates a switch plate (126) which is adjacent to face plate (24) when canister (10) and picker mechanism (100) are in operating position.

Abstract: An automatic carton feeding device for a liquid filling machine according to the present invention comprises a carton supply basket assembly divided into an upper and lower basket. The upper basket, which follows the lower basket connected to the liquid filling machine, is installed so as to take an upright and a tumbled position. The lower basket is provided with a receiving plate to receive cartons descending to the lower basket in an upright position of the upper basket. The receiving plate is supported so as to make a vertical motion and lateral retraction using an elevating mechanism.

Abstract: A paper-feeding device which includes a paper-feeding cassette removably located into an image processing apparatus, a locking mechanism for inhibiting extraction of the paper-feeding cassette by engaging with the cassette or a cassette mount, and a locking control device for activating operation of the locking mechanism while a paper-feeding operation is underway. Since the locking control device remains activated while the paper-feeding operation is underway, the operator cannot extract the paper-feeding cassette from the image processing apparatus during a paper-feeding operation.

Abstract: A sheet feeding system comprises an interlock assembly for use with a sheet store which includes, a carriage slidably mounted in a housing. A disc shaped locking member locks the carriage in a first position relatively to the housing. A probe can be inserted into the carriage to move a spring biassed plunger out of engagement with the disc to allow the disc to move into an aperture in the probe in order to lock the probe with the carriage for movement relative to the housing.

Abstract: A compact printer of the kind having a sheet media print path to and through a print zone and an assembly for printing on media at the print zone includes a sheet cassette that is coupled to the bottom of the printer housing and rotatable on an axis generally normal to the bottom of the printer between: (i) a position with cassette edges generally flush with the side walls of the printer and (ii) a position wherein the length dimension of a supported sheet media stack is operatively aligned with the print path.

Abstract: A bill containing box apparatus used in a bill receiving and dispensing machine having a dispensation bill containing box mounted on the front of the machine body in an inclined condition for improving the handling of bills contained within the machine body. The dispensation bill containing box detachably mounted on the frame members in an inclined condition with the engaging members of the box snapped into the upper and lower notches formed in the frame members. The dispensation bill containing box can be tilted forward with the front door opened and the engaging members of the box disengaged from the upper notches for loading bills into the box or taking them out from the box. The dispensation bill containing box can be also separated from the frame members with the engaging members of the box disengaged from both the upper and lower notches of the frame members. This makes it possible to carry the box to any place for loading or removal of the bills.

Abstract: A system in which an easily replaceable cartridge containing conveyor mechanisms such as wheels and belts, and a base for mounting the cartridge transports documents. The cartridge includes a carcass having a plurality of recesses in which respective wheels are disposed. When the cartridge is not mounted on the base, the wheels are retained within the recesses in contact with the carcass by belts which encircle the carcass. The base includes a plurality of bearing members of like member to the wheels. When the cartridge is mounted on the base, the wheels are engaged by the bearing members. The base is provided with a tensioning device which, when operated, tensions the belt and spaces the wheels away from the carcass, permitting them to rotate freely about their associated bearing members. At least one of the wheels is retained upon a hub assembly by a click-on, click-off mechanism requiring only single handed operation.

Abstract: A top-sheet feeding apparatus having an automatically elevating stack support tray (100) to keep the top sheet of the stack (5) in operative contact with sheet feed mechanism (10). An upwardly projecting member (2) is present on the tray. The stack of sheets is provided in a cartridge (3) which simplifies the change over of throughput material and reduces the risk of damage and contamination both during handling and storage. The cartridge (3) comprises a generally enclosed rectangular container (4) holding the stack of sheets (5). The container has three openings as follows: (i) in its top face (6b) a cut out portion (9) exposing a portion of the top sheet to permit engagement by the sheet feed mechanism (10), (ii) in a side face (6c) a slot (11) through which sheets can be fed out from the top of the stack, and (iii) in bottom face (6a) an aperture (7) slightly larger than the projecting member (2). The cartridge (3) also comprises a vertically movable plate (8) for supporting the stack (5).