JPH03162365A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prevent the interruption of reception by the paper discharge prohibition, by detecting the recording paper accommodation state in each bin tray of a device equipped with a plurality of bin trays, selecting the bin tray which is not full and shifting the bin tray to a paper discharge port. CONSTITUTION:Recording paper 8 which is supplied one by one from a paper feeding cassette 7 is transported 11, and the received information is recorded in a recording paper 12. Then, the recording paper 8 is sent into a paper discharging rollers 13 by a transport rollers 11. A vacant bin tray 3 among a plurality of bin trays 3 is engaged with the paper discharge rollers 13 under the control by a control part 17, and receives the recording paper 8, and a sensor 16 performs output, and a corresponding lamp comes ON. The recording paper 8 as the next received information is accommodated into the vacant bin tray 3 which is shifted by a motor 14 and a belt 15. When all the bin trays 3 accommodate the recording paper 8, the bin tray 3 which is not full is selected, and the recording paper 8 as the next received information is accommodated. Accordingly, the interruption of communication due to the paper discharge prohibition is prevented, maintaining the easiness of the assorting work for the received information.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a facsimile machine equipped with a plurality of bin trays and capable of sorting received documents. [Prior Art] Conventionally, this type of facsimile machine has a detection means for detecting the presence or absence of a received document in each bin tray, and detects the presence or absence of a received document in a bin tray in accordance with the output signal. , and move it to paper ejection p to output the received @ original. [Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, in such conventional examples, the number of bin trays is limited to about 5 to 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000. Stacked on bin tray. Once the originals are stacked in the bin tray, ejection is prohibited until the originals are collected.
The next incoming @manuscripts will be sequentially ejected into the remaining empty bin trays. Therefore, for example, if the recipient neglects to collect the received originals and leaves the received originals forcefully ejected into all the bin trays, all ejection to the bin trays will be prohibited. Therefore, in this case, the only option is to prohibit incoming calls or use memory to intercept them, and if incoming calls are prohibited, the sending side will have to repeat the transmission, etc.
This will cause unnecessary confusion, and C±
, it is necessary to add memory, which has the disadvantage of increasing costs. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a facsimile machine that can effectively eject received originals even after all received originals have been ejected to the bin tray. [Means for Solving the Problems] The present invention provides a facsimile machine equipped with a plurality of bin trays, which includes a detection means for detecting that each bin tray is full, and a moving means for moving each bin tray to a paper output port. , if there are more documents to be output in a state in which documents have already been output to each of the bin trays, the bin trays that are not full are selectively moved to the paper ejection port based on the output signal of the detection means to output the documents. It is characterized by [Function] In the present invention, even when received originals are ejected to all bin trays, by selecting a bin tray that is not full from among the bin trays and ejecting subsequent received originals, the maximum amount of the received originals can be stored in the bin tray. The ejection operation can be continued, and there is no need to prohibit incoming calls or perform memory proxy reception. [Embodiment] FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the appearance of a facsimile machine according to an embodiment of the present invention. This facsimile machine has a collator 2 provided on one side of a main body 1 of the facsimile machine. The facsimile main body 1 is provided with an automatic document feeder 4, a scanner section 5, an operation panel 6, etc., and a paper feed cassette 7 for storing recording paper is attached to the side opposite to the collator 2. Further, the collator 2 has a plurality of bin trays 3, and moves these to the paper ejection port of the facsimile apparatus main body 1 as appropriate. Figure 2 is a schematic diagram showing the internal configuration of this facsimile machine. The recording paper 8 in the paper feed cassette 7 is fed into the facsimile machine main body 1 by a paper feed roller 9, and is fed into the facsimile machine main body 1 by a separation roller 10.
The sheets are separated one by one by the conveyor rollers 11, and conveyed to a predetermined position by the conveyor rollers 11. After the received information is recorded on the recording paper 8 by the recording section 12, the recording paper 8 is further sent out to the bin tray 3 by the conveying roller l1 and the paper ejection roller l3. The collator 2 is connected to a motor l4 for moving the bin tray 3 up and down, and to each bin tray 3.
a belt 15 that transmits the drive to the bin tray 3; a sensor 16 provided for each bin tray 3 to detect whether there is recording paper 8 in each bin tray 3; 3 is selected and a control unit 17 drives the motor 14 to move the bin tray 3, and a warning lamp is provided for each bin tray 3 and lights up when two or more received documents are discharged to each bin tray 3. It has l8. 3 to 5 are side views showing the structure and function of the sensor l6. This sensor 16 includes a rotary plate 16b that rotates according to the state of paper discharge to the bin tray 3, and two sets of photocouplers A and 2 that detect the rotational state of this rotary plate 16b. A detecting section 16a that identifies the state of paper discharge by detecting the state of the discharged paper. That is, when the bin tray 3 is empty, as shown in FIG. The visible light-shielding portion is not detected by either photocouplers A or H. Therefore, both photocoupler A.
When B is not detected, it is determined that the bin tray 3 is empty. Furthermore, when even one received document is discharged onto the bin tray 3, the protruding portion of the rotary plate 16b is pushed by the received document and rotates, as shown in FIG. 4, and comes out of the notch. becomes. As a result, the light-shielding portion of the rotating plate 16b is detected by one of the photocouplers A. Therefore, when only the photocoupler B is not detected, it is determined that the bin tray 3 has already received a received document. Furthermore, when the bin tray 3 becomes full, as shown in FIG. 5, the rotating plate 16b is pushed by the received document and rotates to the maximum extent.
The light-shielding portion is for both photocouplers A. Detected by H. Therefore, in this way both photocouplers A.
When B is in the detection state, it is determined that the bin tray 3 is full. In the above manner, the three states of each bin tray 3 are identified. Next, the operation of such a facsimile machine will be explained. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the operation at the time of reception. First, when the facsimile machine receives information, one sheet of recording paper 8 in the paper feed cassette 7 is fed by the paper feed roller 9 and separation roller lO (St), and then the recording paper 8 is fed by the conveyance roller 11. It is sent to the recording section l2 (
S2), after recording the received information on recording paper 8 (S3)
, the paper is ejected to the bin tray 3 by the ejection roller 13 (S
4), Then, check whether there is reception information for the next page (SS), and if there is, return to s1; if not, end. FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the selection operation of the bin tray 3 when the recording paper 8 is discharged to the bin tray 3. When discharging the recording paper 8 to the bin tray 3, the control unit 17 first checks whether there is an empty bin tray 3 based on the signal from the sensor 16 (S6), and if there is, drives the motor 14 (S7). ), an empty bin tray 3 is set at the paper ejection port (38), and if there is no empty bin tray 3, a bin tray 3 that is not full is detected by the signal from the sensor l6, and the motor l4 is driven (S9). , set bin tray 3, which is not full, in the paper output slot (
SIO), ejects recording paper 8 for one communication. Then, the warning lamp 18 of this bin tray 3 is turned on (S11), and the system returns to the standby state. Therefore, by seeing that the warning lamp 18 is lit, the operator on the receiving side can know that two or more received documents are stored in the bin tray 3 corresponding to the warning lamp 18. You can sort each received manuscript without making any mistakes. [Effects of the Invention] According to the present invention, while simplifying the sorting work by sorting and outputting received documents to a plurality of bin trays, even if all the bin trays are in use, it is possible to make the sorting work easier. Since paper is ejected by selecting a tray that is not set to eject, it is possible to reduce problems such as overshooting of substitute memory due to disabling paper ejecting, and this has the effect of making communication work smoother.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the appearance of a facsimile machine according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing the internal structure of the same embodiment. FIG. 3 is a side view showing a state in which the sensor detects that there is no recording paper in the bin tray in the same embodiment. FIG. 4 shows that one recording paper is placed in the bin tray in the same embodiment.
FIG. FIG. 5 is a side view showing a state in which the sensor detects that the bin tray is full of recording paper in the same embodiment. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the recording operation at the time of reception in the same embodiment. FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the bin tray setting operation in the same embodiment. l...Facsimile machine body, 2...Collator, 3...Bin tray, 4...Auto document feeder, 5...Scanner section, 6...Veration panel, 7...Paper feed Cassette, 8... Recording paper, 9... Paper feed roller, 10... Separation roller, 11... Conveyance roller, 12... Recording section, 13... Paper ejection roller, 14... Motor, 15...Belt, 16...Senna, 17...Controller, 18...Warning lamp.

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) A facsimile machine equipped with a plurality of bin trays, comprising a detection means for detecting that each bin tray is full, and a moving means for moving each bin tray to a paper ejection port,
If there is another document to be output in a state where the document has already been output to each of the bin trays, the bin tray that is not full is selectively moved to the paper ejection port based on the output signal of the detection means to output the document. A facsimile device featuring: (2) The facsimile apparatus according to claim (1), further comprising warning means for notifying when two or more originals are ejected to the same bin tray.