Global Patent Index - EP 0622694 A3

EP 0622694 A3 19950104 - A mailboxing system and sorter for feeding sheets from an output device into lockable mailbox bins.

Title (en)

A mailboxing system and sorter for feeding sheets from an output device into lockable mailbox bins.

Title (de)

Briefverteilungssystem und Sortierer zum Zuführen von Bögen von einer Ausgabestelle zu absperrbaren Bogenbehaltern.

Title (fr)

Système de mise en boîte postale et de tri pour alimenter des feuilles depuis un dispositif de sortie vers des casiers à courrier verrouillables.

Publication

EP 0622694 A3 19950104 (EN)

Application

EP 94303030 A 19940427

Priority

  • US 5450293 A 19930427
  • US 19709294 A 19940216

Abstract (en)

[origin: EP0622695A1] A dynamic "mailboxing" unit (10) and system for separating by users the sheet outputs of various users of a shared users printer (including facsimile receivers, copiers or combination units). It provides for stacking the sheets sequentially outputted from the printer in separate job sets into one or more temporarily and variably assigned "mailboxes" (11) of a "mailboxing" job sorting accessory unit (10) having a number of variably assignable "mailbox" (11) bins. It may also provide a bypass for sequentially stacking unstapled user sheets directly in a mailbox without compiling and stapling. A variable display (104) indicates the bins (11) into which that particular user's jobs have been placed last and not yet removed. Also disclosed is automatic overflow assignments of additional temporarily designated bins for identified users, as needed, to provide effectively unlimited or "virtual bin" plural job stacking. An integral moving sheet deflector, compiler and stapler unit (90) is shown for collecting, compiling, and optionally stapling, and ejecting job sets of sheets for separate designated users into one or more of these discrete but variably assigned "mailboxes". The "mailboxing" unit (10) may also have "privacy doors" locking for restricting access to at least some of the mailbox bins, with electrical door unlocking of selected bins in response to entry of a user access code, and other user features.

IPC 1-7

G03G 15/00

IPC 8 full level

G03G 15/00 (2006.01); G03G 21/04 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

G03G 15/5016 (2013.01); G03G 15/5087 (2013.01); G03G 15/5091 (2013.01); G03G 15/6538 (2013.01); G03G 21/04 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00109 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00827 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00907 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00932 (2013.01)

Citation (search report)

  • [PX] GB 2265362 A 19930929 - GRADCO [JP]
  • [PX] EP 0585075 A1 19940302 - XEROX CORP [US]
  • [PX] EP 0550033 A2 19930707 - SEIKO EPSON CORP [JP]
  • [DX] EP 0241273 A2 19871014 - XEROX CORP [US]
  • [X] PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN vol. 12, no. 397 (E - 672) 21 October 1988 (1988-10-21)
  • [X] PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN vol. 13, no. 390 (E - 813) 29 August 1989 (1989-08-29)
  • [X] PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN vol. 6, no. 238 (E - 144) 26 November 1982 (1982-11-26)
  • [X] PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN vol. 14, no. 468 (P - 1115) 12 October 1990 (1990-10-12)
  • [A] PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN vol. 7, no. 20 (M - 188)<1165> 26 January 1983 (1983-01-26)
  • [A] PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN vol. 13, no. 584 (E - 866) 22 December 1989 (1989-12-22)
  • [A] PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN vol. 13, no. 285 (E - 780) 29 June 1989 (1989-06-29)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

BE ES FR IT NL

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0622695 A1 19941102; EP 0622695 B1 19970108; DE 69401377 D1 19970220; DE 69401377 T2 19970710; EP 0622694 A2 19941102; EP 0622694 A3 19950104; EP 0622694 B1 19971015; ES 2098101 T3 19970416; ES 2110697 T3 19980216

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 94303031 A 19940427; DE 69401377 T 19940427; EP 94303030 A 19940427; ES 94303030 T 19940427; ES 94303031 T 19940427