| 摘要 |
PURPOSE:To provide a low power, light weight and compact sheet sorter by making a follower of a bin tray in a copier or the like engage a spiral cam every time said cam rotates so as to move the bin tray. CONSTITUTION:When a sheet sorter is activated from the stopping condition, a pair of groove-type spiral cams 24 supported on the upper portions of vertically pivotable shafts 18, 19 are rotated by the reversal of a motor 23. Thus, since followers 6a, 6b of a bin tray 6 engage spiral grooves (24') of said cams 24, a support frame 12 supporting fixedly said tray 6 on the upper portion is lowered along a slot together with the other trays 7-9 until a microswitch 26 is operated. Next, sheets are sent onto the bin tray 6 through a pair of rollers 5. When this sending of the sheets is detected, a motor 23 is rotated forward so that the bin tray 6 is lifted together with the other bin trays 7-9 and sheets are sent to the tray 7 in the next stage. |
