US 7,510,178 B2
	Sheet-handling device
Masahiko Miyazaki, Osaka (Japan); Masuo Kawamoto, Osaka (Japan); Mitsutoshi Takemoto, Osaka (Japan); Takeshi Matsuo, Osaka (Japan); Tetsuya Taguchi, Osaka (Japan); and Keisuke Egawa, Osaka (Japan)
Assigned to Kyocera Mita Corporation, Osaka (Japan)
Filed on Mar. 22, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/385,710.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-095578 (JP), filed on Mar. 29, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2006/0220304 A1, Oct. 05, 2006
Int. Cl. B65H 37/04 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 270—58.1  [270/58.07; 270/58.08; 270/58.09; 270/58.11; 270/58.14]

7 Claims

7. A sheet-handling device comprising an intermediate tray wherein a sheaf of sheets undergoes a predetermined sheet-handling and is moved to the direction of discharge, an intermediate conveyer passage comprising conveying rollers wherein a preceding sheet of the plurality of sheets being introduced continuously into the intermediate conveyer passage is positioned to wait a predetermined standby position and then, a sheet conveyed subsequently is overlapped with the preceding sheet to convey the plurality of sheets overlapped to the intermediate tray, and a holder member being so arranged in the intermediate conveyer passage as to rotate between a release position most distant from the conveyer surface of the intermediate conveyer passage and a holding position holding the trailing portion of the sheet which is once being waited at the predetermined standby position relatively movable to the conveyer surface, wherein the holder member comprises a holder portion to hold the trailing portion of the sheet in a state relatively movable to the conveyer surface and a pair of arms extending off said holder portion and said arms being spaced apart and positioned as to define a passing-through opening that is capable of providing for a passing through of the sheet introduced subsequently in the direction of the conveying rollers between said arms while maintaining the holder portion in the holding position.