JPH0455259A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To switch over the direction of sending manuscripts to the buch or forth direction by providing a manuscript tray taking in reversely transferred manuscripts and a movable tray taking in manuscripts in the first condition titled in the same direction as the manuscript tray or in the second condition turned around a central fulcrum. CONSTITUTION:Read manuscripts are reversed and taken in a manuscript tray 13. A movable tray 24 is made turntable around a central fulcrum 25 and can be switched to a 1st. position tilted in the same direction to the manuscript tray 13 or to a 2nd position turned around for 90 deg.C. An actuator 28 is provided on the movable tray 24, and when the tray 24 is turned to the 2nd position, a projection 29 on an ejection direction switching plate 27 is pressed by the actuator 28 to switch the transfer channel to the movable tray 24 side lying in the 2nd position. Therefore the ejection of manuscripts can be selected arbitrarily to reverse ejection toward the tray 13 side or to straight ejection toward the tray 24 side, and the movable tray 24 an be used as a recorded paper taking in tray on the reverse ejection, or as a manuscript tray on the straight ejection, where the recorded papers are ejected to other outlet by means of switching of a switching plate 30.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a facsimile machine in which the ejection direction of original documents and recording paper is variable.

(Prior art) When a plurality of transmission originals set on a document table are separated one by one, fed, and read, and the scanned originals are ejected, as shown in FIG. 4(a), , a straight type structure in which a paper eject tray T is placed on an extension of the reading section and conveys the document in a straight line, and a paper ejection tray T on one side of the reading section as shown in FIG. There is a reversible structure in which the document is placed and conveyed in reverse.

In this case, in a linear structure, the facsimile machine
Since the ray T protrudes, an extra space corresponding to one ray is required. On the other hand, in the inverted structure,
This has the advantage of requiring a small installation space. on the other hand,
As shown in Fig. 5, when placing a document 1 on the document table, place the document 1 with the original side facing down, and place the original 1 on the document tray from the bottom. ■However, in the straight type structure, the sheets are stacked on the output tray in the same order as when they were loaded from 1 to 1, whereas in the inverted type structure, they are stacked in the reverse order because they are turned over during conveyance. This problem occurs.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) The present invention is based on the above-mentioned conventional technology, in which the linear type structure has no problem with the ordering of documents, but the installation space is large, whereas the inverted type structure requires a small installation space. To provide a facsimile device which enables switching of the document ejection direction and allows the user to arbitrarily select either a straight forward type or an inverted type, taking into consideration the advantages and disadvantages of each type, ie, the order of the documents is reversed. The purpose is to

(Means for Solving the Problems) In order to achieve this object, the present invention provides a document tray that accommodates the discharged document when the scanned document is reversely conveyed and discharged; The ejected recording paper is stored in the first state, which is tilted in the same direction as the L-ray, and the ejected document is stored in the second state, which is rotated by a predetermined angle around the fulcrum from the first state. a movable tray that accommodates the
A configuration including a document discharge direction switching plate that switches the discharge direction of the scanned document from the document I-ray side to the movable tray side in conjunction with the rotation of the movable I-ray to the second state. shall be.

(2) In addition to the configuration of (1) above, when the movable 1-ray is rotated to the second state, the ejection direction of the recording paper is changed from the movable tray side to the other ejector in conjunction with the rotation. The configuration includes a recording paper ejection direction switching plate that switches to the exit.

(Function) According to this configuration, the user can freely select either the straight type or the reverse type according to his/her wishes, and the switching can also be done using the movable lator.
~ Transfer the ray from the first state to the second state or from the second state to the first . You can easily switch to the state by simply rotating it.

Furthermore, in the case of a straight-advance type, the movable 1-lay serves as a document storage tray and blocks the recording paper ejection port, so that it is automatically switched to another ejection port.

(Example) Hereinafter, embodiments will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a facsimile machine according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, in the transmission document reading section, 1. 1 is a document table on which one or more originals to be sent are stacked, 2 is a pickup roller that feeds the originals that have been plated to the separating section, 3 is a feed roller, and 4 is a separation roller. 4 separates the original into sheets one by one and supplies them to the reading section. Reference numerals 5 and 6 denote a pair of transport rollers (a driving roller and a driven roller), which transport the original. 7 is a contact glass, 8 is an illumination light source (fluorescent lamp), which illuminates the surface of the document when the document passes over the contact glass, and its reflected light (image information) passes through a mirror 9 and a lens 10;
An image is formed on the CCD 11 and photoelectrically converted. Reference numeral 12 denotes a paper ejecting roller for inverting and ejecting the scanned original, and 13 represents a document l tray.

Next, in the reception recording section, 15 is a photoreceptor belt that circulates in the direction of the arrow. 16 is a charger that uniformly charges the photoreceptor in advance;] 7 is an optical writing unit 1~ that emits a laser to expose the photoreceptor according to the received image information;
Forms an electrostatic latent image. A developing unit 18 applies toner to the electrostatic latent image and develops it. Reference numeral 19 denotes a transfer charger which transfers the toner image on the photoreceptor onto recording sheets supplied separately from the cassettes 1 to 20 one by one. 21 is a fixing unit 1-122 that fixes the toner image transferred to the recording paper;
A cleaning unit 1-123 removes the toner remaining on the photoreceptor belt 15 after the toner image has been transferred; a paper ejection roller 24 ejects the fixed recording paper; and a cleaning unit 24 stores the ejected recording paper. It's a tray.

Here, in this embodiment, the tray 24 is replaced with the document tray 1.
A first state (indicated by a solid line) in which the ejected recording paper is accommodated by being arranged approximately parallel to the paper 3, and a document rotated approximately 90 degrees around the fulcrum 25 from this first state and ejected. It is possible to switch to a second state (indicated by a broken line) in which the state is accommodated. Hereinafter, 24 will be referred to as a movable 1-lay.

Furthermore, this part will be explained in detail. Figure 2(a) is
A case is shown in which the movable 1-ray 24 is in the first state. 27 is a document discharge direction switching plate, and the scanned document is
The document is reversely conveyed by the conveyance roller pair 6 along the document discharge direction switching plate 27 and discharged onto the document tray 13 by the paper discharge roller 12 . FIG. 2(b) shows a case where the movable tray 24 is rotated to the second state. Movable 1-ray 24
is provided with an actuator 28, and when the movable tray is rotated to the second state, the actuator 28 pushes a protrusion 29 provided on the document ejection direction switching plate 27 in conjunction with the rotation, so that the switching The plate 27 rotates by a predetermined angle. Therefore, the conveyance path to the paper ejection roller 12 is changed to the switching plate 2.
7, the conveyance path to the movable tray 24 is opened, and the read original is guided to the movable tray 24 side, advances straight, and is ejected from the mold.

FIG. 3(a) shows the recording paper discharge section when the movable tray 24 is in the first state. In this case, the recording paper that has passed through the fixing unit 21 is discharged onto the movable tray 24 by the paper discharge roller 23. FIG. 3(b) shows the movable tray 2
4 is rotated to the second state. At this time, the discharge port of the paper discharge roller 23 is blocked by the movable tray 24, so a recording paper discharge direction switching plate 3Oti- is provided.
When the movable tray 24 is rotated to the second state, the actuator 3 provided on the movable tray 24 is activated in conjunction with the rotation.
] pushes one end 32 of the recording paper discharge direction switching plate 30, so that the switching plate 30 rotates by a predetermined angle. Therefore,
The recording paper is guided to another paper ejection roller 33 and ejected.

(Effects of the Invention) As explained above, according to the present invention, by simply rotating the movable tray from the first state to the second state or from the second state to the first state, the linear type , inverted type can be switched arbitrarily and easily.

In addition, in the case of a straight-advance type, the movable 1-lay serves as a document storage tray, and recording paper ejection is automatically switched to another ejection port.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG.
3 is a diagram showing the detailed configuration and operation of the document ejecting section, FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the detailed configuration and operation of the recording paper ejecting section, and FIG. FIG. 5, which is a diagram showing the structure, is a diagram showing the order of documents in the straight type structure and the inverted type structure. 7...Contact glass, 11...CCD, 1
2.23.33... Paper discharge roller, 13... Document tray, 15... Photoreceptor belt, 21... Fixing unit, 24 - Movable 1-ray, 27... Document discharge direction switching plate, 28.31...actuator, 30...
Recording paper ejection direction switching plate. Patent applicant Ricoh Co., Ltd.

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) When a scanned original is reversely conveyed and ejected, the ejected recording paper is placed in the original tray that accommodates the ejected original and the first state that is tilted in the same direction as the original tray. a movable tray for accommodating the ejected document in a second state which has been accommodated and rotated by a predetermined angle around a fulcrum from the first state; and when the movable tray is rotated to the second state;
A facsimile apparatus comprising: a document discharge direction switching plate that switches the discharge direction of the scanned document from the document tray side to the movable tray side in conjunction with the rotation thereof. (2) When the movable tray is rotated to the second state, it further includes a recording paper ejection direction switching plate that switches the ejection direction of the recording paper from the movable tray side to another ejection port in conjunction with the rotation. The facsimile machine according to claim 1, characterized in that: