EP 0622695 B1 19970108 - A mailboxing system for feeding sheets from an output device into selected mailbox bins
Title (en)
A mailboxing system for feeding sheets from an output device into selected mailbox bins
Title (de)
Briefverteilungssystem zum Zuführen von Bogen von einer Ausgabestelle zu ausgewählten Briefbehältern
Title (fr)
Système de mise en boîte postale pour alimenter des feuilles depuis un dispositif de sortie jusque dans des casiers à courrier sélectionnés
Publication
Application
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
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)
Designated contracting state (EPC)
BE DE ES FR GB 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