Sheet-registration and feeding apparatus

A document printer includes sheet-feeding apparatus for sequentially presenting both faces of a print-receiving sheet to a print station. According to a preferred embodiment, such apparatus features, as part of the duplex sheet path, reversible sheet-feeding means operable in first or second active...

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Hauptverfasser:	SPEHRLEY, JR., CHARLES W, SCRANTON, ROBERT J
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	CINEMATOGRAPHY CONVEYING ELECTROGRAPHY ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS,CABLES HOLOGRAPHY MAGNETOGRAPHY PACKING PERFORMING OPERATIONS PHOTOGRAPHY PHYSICS STORING TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ARTCOLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS TRANSPORTING
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Zusammenfassung:	A document printer includes sheet-feeding apparatus for sequentially presenting both faces of a print-receiving sheet to a print station. According to a preferred embodiment, such apparatus features, as part of the duplex sheet path, reversible sheet-feeding means operable in first or second active modes for selectively feeding sheets into and out of a chute, located upstream from the feeding means, to reverse the sheet's lead edge/trail edge orientation. Such sheet-feeding means is also operable in a passive mode in which it allows sheets to advance, without substantial interference, downstream therepast to a registration position. Control means are provided for switching the feeding means from one of its active modes to its passive mode after a sheet has been advanced into the reversing chute to the extent that the sheet buckles, whereupon the restoring force in the sheet propels the leading edge of the sheet past the feed means and into engagement with a registration gate located at the registration position.