EP0870713B1 - Method for sorting documents and a printer using the method - Google Patents

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EP0870713B1
EP0870713B1 EP19980400782 EP98400782A EP0870713B1 EP 0870713 B1 EP0870713 B1 EP 0870713B1 EP 19980400782 EP19980400782 EP 19980400782 EP 98400782 A EP98400782 A EP 98400782A EP 0870713 B1 EP0870713 B1 EP 0870713B1
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    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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    • B65H33/00—Forming counted batches in delivery pile or stream of articles
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    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
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    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
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    • B65H2801/03—Image reproduction devices
    • B65H2801/06—Office-type machines, e.g. photocopiers

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  • the invention relates to a fax printer, photocopier or other office machines.
  • Printers are generally provided with an output receptacle into which printed documents are ejected after impression.
  • the invention originates from a sorting problem, at the outlet of fax machine, various fax documents.
  • fax documents containing a or several printed sheets, successively received accumulate on the others in the receptacle by forming a packet of documents that a operator must sort manually, at the risk of committing errors sorting, for example, by inserting a sheet of one document into another document.
  • some fax machines have a receptacle that can move, under the control of an end-of-life detector document, between two reception positions offset from each other either by right to left either back and forth from the direction of ejection documents, so that each document is shifted laterally or longitudinally compared to the previous document.
  • a solution consists in separating all the edges respective counterparts of two successively ejected documents.
  • homologous edges are intended to denote the respective edges of the two documents that would overlap if the two documents spanned one against the other, face to face.
  • the present invention proposes to achieve the same result, in other words to separate the homologous edges of two documents successive, but in a simpler way.
  • the invention relates to a sorting process for documents successively ejected from a printer into a receptacle output after printing, during which all the edges are separated counterparts of two successively ejected documents, characterized by the makes the two faces facing each other separate from each other of the two said documents.
  • the invention also relates, for the implementation of the method of the invention, a printer for an office machine comprising at output a receptacle for documents ejected after printing, means for end of document detection and at least one feed store printing support sheets, the printer being characterized by the fact that it includes an additional food store containing dividers and arranged to supply the receptacle under the control of end of document detection means.
  • the office machine shown in Figures 1 and 2 is a fax 11 incorporating a printer.
  • the facsimile machine 11 integrates a central processing unit. control, not shown, in this case a microprocessor, connected to known manner to the various elements of the facsimile machine 11, and intended to check the operation.
  • the facsimile machine 11 also comprises an additional magazine 7 supply of dividers, in this case blue sheets, colored different from that of the print media sheets in a magazine 4 supply of printing media sheets which are here white.
  • the additional magazine 7 communicates with the document receptacle 5 fax machine, via an ejection system 10.
  • a detector 6 is connected to a fax memory 2 and to the system eject 10.
  • the receptacle 5 is fixedly mounted on the facsimile machine 11.
  • a fax When a fax is transmitted via the PSTN 100 network and received by the facsimile machine 11, via the receiver 1, it is stored in the memory 2. Under the control of the central unit, a fax document corresponding is printed on one or more white support sheets from the feed magazine 4, then ejected into the receptacle 5.
  • a "fax document” is made up of a or several support sheets on which information is printed relating to a fax received by the facsimile machine 11.
  • the two fax documents successively received are arranged one on the other with the interposition of a interlayer sheet separating the two faces facing one another two successive documents. So, we separate all the homologous edges respective of the two successive documents.
  • the intermediate sheets are different in color from the print media sheets, might also consider using additional slip sheets larger dimensions than those of print media sheets.

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L'invention concerne une imprimante de télécopieur, photocopieur ou autres machines de bureau.The invention relates to a fax printer, photocopier or other office machines.

Les imprimantes sont généralement pourvues en sortie d'un réceptacle dans lequel les documents imprimés sont éjectés après impression.Printers are generally provided with an output receptacle into which printed documents are ejected after impression.

L'invention tire son origine d'un problème de triage, en sortie de télécopieur, des différents documents de télécopie. La demanderesse entend toutefois ne pas limiter la portée de sa demande aux télécopieurs, mais au contraire l'étendre à toute imprimante pour machine de bureau.The invention originates from a sorting problem, at the outlet of fax machine, various fax documents. The plaintiff hears however, do not limit the scope of your request to fax machines, but to otherwise extend it to any printer for office machine.

En sortie de télécopieur, les documents de télécopie contenant une ou plusieurs feuilles imprimées, successivement reçus, s'accumulent les uns sur les autres dans le réceptacle en formant un paquet de documents qu'un opérateur doit trier manuellement, au risque de commettre des erreurs de tri, par exemple, en insérant une feuille d'un document dans un autre document.On fax output, fax documents containing a or several printed sheets, successively received, accumulate on the others in the receptacle by forming a packet of documents that a operator must sort manually, at the risk of committing errors sorting, for example, by inserting a sheet of one document into another document.

Pour éviter ce problème, certains télécopieurs disposent d'un réceptacle pouvant se déplacer, sous la commande d'un détecteur de fin de document, entre deux positions de réception décalées l'une de l'autre soit de droite à gauche soit d'avant en arrière par rapport à la direction d'éjection des documents, de façon à ce que chaque document soit décalé latéralement ou longitudinalement par rapport au document précédent.To avoid this problem, some fax machines have a receptacle that can move, under the control of an end-of-life detector document, between two reception positions offset from each other either by right to left either back and forth from the direction of ejection documents, so that each document is shifted laterally or longitudinally compared to the previous document.

Une telle solution a priori satisfaisante s'avère souvent inefficace dans la pratique. En effet, l'expérience montre que l'opérateur au lieu de récupérer le paquet de documents pré-triés avec précaution, a tendance par manque d'attention à regrouper les documents ensemble en détruisant le pré-triage de l'imprimante.Such a satisfactory solution seems often ineffective In practice. Indeed, experience shows that the operator instead of retrieve the pre-sorted document pack carefully, tends to lack of attention to consolidate documents together by destroying the pre-sorting the printer.

Il convient donc, pour proposer une solution pleinement satisfaisante, d'empêcher tout geste fatal de l'opérateur visant à regrouper les documents.It is therefore appropriate, to propose a fully satisfactory, to prevent any fatal gesture by the operator aimed at regrouping the documents.

Pour cela, une solution consiste à séparer tous les bords homologues respectifs de deux documents successivement éjectés. Par les termes "bords homologues", on entend désigner les bords respectifs des deux documents qui se recouvriraient si les deux documents s'étendaient l'un contre l'autre, face contre face.For that, a solution consists in separating all the edges respective counterparts of two successively ejected documents. By the terms "homologous edges" are intended to denote the respective edges of the two documents that would overlap if the two documents spanned one against the other, face to face.

Les documents US-4 861 213 et EP-0 026 327 enseignent de séparer les bords homologues de deux documents successifs en entraínant en translation circulaire l'un des documents par rapport à l'autre de façon à les superposer partiellement dans deux positions respectives angulairement décalées l'une de l'autre. Cependant, les dispositifs de triage enseignés par ces documents s'avèrent complexes.Documents US-4,861,213 and EP-0 026 327 teach from separate the homologous edges of two successive documents by training circular translation of one of the documents in relation to the other so as to partially overlap in two respective angular positions offset from each other. However, the triage devices taught by these documents are complex.

La présente invention propose de parvenir au même résultat, autrement dit de séparer les bords homologues de deux documents successifs, mais de façon plus simple.The present invention proposes to achieve the same result, in other words to separate the homologous edges of two documents successive, but in a simpler way.

A cet effet l'invention concerne un procédé de triage de documents successivement éjectés d'une imprimante dans un réceptacle de sortie après impression, au cours duquel on sépare tous les bords homologues de deux documents successivement éjectés, caractérisé par le fait qu'on sépare l'une de l'autre les deux faces tournées l'une vers l'autre des deux dits documents.To this end, the invention relates to a sorting process for documents successively ejected from a printer into a receptacle output after printing, during which all the edges are separated counterparts of two successively ejected documents, characterized by the makes the two faces facing each other separate from each other of the two said documents.

Avantageusement, on intercale entre les deux dits documents une feuille intercalaire. Advantageously, there is inserted between the two said documents a interlayer sheet.

L'invention concerne aussi, pour la mise en oeuvre du procédé de l'invention, une imprimante pour machine de bureau comprenant en sortie un réceptacle de documents éjectés après impression, des moyens de détection de fin de document et au moins un magasin d'alimentation en feuilles support d'impression, l'imprimante étant caractérisée par le fait qu'elle comprend un magasin supplémentaire d'alimentation contenant des intercalaires et agencé pour alimenter le réceptacle sous la commande des moyens de détection de fin de document.The invention also relates, for the implementation of the method of the invention, a printer for an office machine comprising at output a receptacle for documents ejected after printing, means for end of document detection and at least one feed store printing support sheets, the printer being characterized by the fact that it includes an additional food store containing dividers and arranged to supply the receptacle under the control of end of document detection means.

L'invention sera mieux comprise à l'aide de la description suivante d'une forme de réalisation particulière de l'imprimante pour la mise en oeuvre d'un mode de réalisation particulière du procédé de triage selon l'invention, en référence au dessin annexé sur lequel:

  • la figure 1 représente une vue en perspective d'une machine de bureau comprenant l'imprimante de l'invention, et
  • la figure 2 représente un schéma bloc fonctionnel de la machine de la figure 1.
The invention will be better understood using the following description of a particular embodiment of the printer for the implementation of a particular embodiment of the sorting method according to the invention, with reference to the drawing annexed on which:
  • FIG. 1 represents a perspective view of an office machine comprising the printer of the invention, and
  • FIG. 2 represents a functional block diagram of the machine of FIG. 1.

La machine de bureau représentée sur les figures 1 et 2 est un télécopieur 11 intégrant une imprimante. La demanderesse entend toutefois ne pas limiter la portée de sa demande à cet exemple particulier mais au contraire l'étendre à toute machine de bureau intégrant une imprimante.The office machine shown in Figures 1 and 2 is a fax 11 incorporating a printer. However, the applicant intends do not limit the scope of his request to this particular example but to otherwise extend it to any office machine incorporating a printer.

Par souci de clarté, seuls les éléments du télécopieur 11 relatifs à l'impression seront décrits.For the sake of clarity, only the elements of the facsimile machine 11 relating to printing will be described.

Le télécopieur 11 comprend, de façon connue et en référence à la figure 2 :

  • un récepteur 1 de données de télécopies, relié à un réseau 100 de communication, en l'espèce le réseau de télécommunication commuté (RTC),
  • une mémoire 2 de stockage de télécopies sous forme de données, connectée au récepteur 1 ;
  • un bloc d'impression 3 de documents de télécopie relié à la mémoire de télécopies 2, communiquant en entrée avec un magasin 4 d'alimentation en support d'informations, en l'espèce des feuilles de papier supports, par l'intermédiaire d'un système 8 à galets d'entraínement de feuille, et en sortie avec un réceptacle 5 de documents de télécopie par l'intermédiaire d'un système 9 à galets d'éjection de feuille.
The facsimile machine 11 comprises, in a known manner and with reference to FIG. 2:
  • a facsimile data receiver 1, connected to a communication network 100, in this case the switched telecommunications network (PSTN),
  • a memory 2 for storing faxes in the form of data, connected to the receiver 1;
  • a printing unit 3 for fax documents linked to the fax memory 2, communicating at the input with a magazine 4 for supplying information media, in this case sheets of support paper, by means of a system 8 with sheet feed rollers, and at the output with a receptacle 5 for fax documents via a system 9 with sheet ejection rollers.

En outre, le télécopieur 11 intègre une unité centrale de commande, non représentée, en l'espèce un microprocesseur, reliée de façon connue aux différents éléments du télécopieur 11, et destinée à en contrôler le fonctionnement.In addition, the facsimile machine 11 integrates a central processing unit. control, not shown, in this case a microprocessor, connected to known manner to the various elements of the facsimile machine 11, and intended to check the operation.

Le télécopieur 11 comprend en outre un magasin supplémentaire 7 d'alimentation en intercalaires, en l'espèce des feuilles bleues, de couleur différente de celle des feuilles supports d'impression d'un magasin 4 d'alimentation en feuilles supports d'impression qui sont ici blanches. Le magasin supplémentaire 7 communique avec le réceptacle 5 de documents de télécopie, par l'intermédiaire d'un système d'éjection 10. Un détecteur de fin de document 6 est relié à une mémoire de télécopies 2 et au système d'éjection 10.The facsimile machine 11 also comprises an additional magazine 7 supply of dividers, in this case blue sheets, colored different from that of the print media sheets in a magazine 4 supply of printing media sheets which are here white. The additional magazine 7 communicates with the document receptacle 5 fax machine, via an ejection system 10. A detector 6 is connected to a fax memory 2 and to the system eject 10.

Le réceptacle 5 est monté fixe sur le télécopieur 11.The receptacle 5 is fixedly mounted on the facsimile machine 11.

Le fonctionnement de l'imprimante du télécopieur 11, correspondant sensiblement à la mise en oeuvre du procédé de triage, va maintenant être décrit.The operation of the printer of the fax machine 11, substantially corresponding to the implementation of the sorting process, will now be described.

Lorsqu'une télécopie est transmise via le réseau RTC 100 et reçue par le télécopieur 11, via le récepteur 1, elle est stockée dans la mémoire 2. Sous la commande de l'unité centrale, un document de télécopie correspondant est imprimé sur une ou plusieurs feuilles supports blanches du magasin d'alimentation 4, puis éjecté dans le réceptacle 5. When a fax is transmitted via the PSTN 100 network and received by the facsimile machine 11, via the receiver 1, it is stored in the memory 2. Under the control of the central unit, a fax document corresponding is printed on one or more white support sheets from the feed magazine 4, then ejected into the receptacle 5.

Par définition, un "document de télécopie" est constitué par une ou plusieurs feuilles supports sur lesquelles sont imprimées des informations relatives à une télécopie reçue par le télécopieur 11.By definition, a "fax document" is made up of a or several support sheets on which information is printed relating to a fax received by the facsimile machine 11.

Après l'impression et l'éjection, sous la commande du détecteur 6 de fin de document, une feuille intercalaire bleue est éjectée dans la réceptacle 5 depuis le magasin supplémentaire 7, par le système d'éjection 10.After printing and ejection, under the control of the detector 6 at the end of the document, a blue insert sheet is ejected in the receptacle 5 from the additional magazine 7, by the ejection system 10.

Lorsqu'une nouvelle télécopie est transmise et reçue par le télécopieur 11, un nouveau document de télécopie correspondant est imprimé sur des feuilles supports blanches du magasin d'alimentation 4, et éjecté dans le réceptacle 5.When a new fax is sent and received by the fax 11, a new corresponding fax document is printed on white support sheets of food store 4, and ejected into receptacle 5.

Dans le réceptacle 5, les deux documents de télécopie successivement reçus sont disposés l'un sur l'autre avec interposition d'une feuille intercalaire séparant les deux faces tournées l'une vers l'autre des deux documents successifs. Ainsi, on sépare tous les bords homologues respectifs des deux documents successifs.In receptacle 5, the two fax documents successively received are arranged one on the other with the interposition of a interlayer sheet separating the two faces facing one another two successive documents. So, we separate all the homologous edges respective of the two successive documents.

On rappelle ici que par les termes "bords homologues respectifs de deux documents", on entend désigner les bords respectifs des deux documents qui se recouvriraient si les deux documents s'étendaient l'un contre l'autre, face contre face.It is recalled here that by the terms "respective homologous edges of two documents ", we mean to designate the respective edges of the two documents that would overlap if the two documents spanned one against each other, face to face.

Dans la description qui vient d'être faite, les feuilles intercalaires sont de couleur différente de celle des feuilles support d'impression, on pourrait également envisager d'utiliser des feuilles intercalaires de plus grandes dimensions que celles des feuilles supports d'impression.In the description which has just been made, the intermediate sheets are different in color from the print media sheets, might also consider using additional slip sheets larger dimensions than those of print media sheets.

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  1. Method for sorting documents successively ejected from a printer into an output receptacle (5) after printing, during which sorting method all the counterpart edges of two successively ejected documents are separated, characterised in that the two sides, which are turned one towards the other, of the said two documents are separated from each other.
  2. Sorting method according to claim 1, wherein a divider sheet is interposed between the said two documents.
  3. Printer for a business machine for implementation of the method according to one of claims 1 and 2, comprising at the output a receptacle (5) for documents ejected after printing, means (6) for detecting the end of a document and at least one magazine (4) for supplying printing-support sheets, the printer being characterised in that it comprises an additional supply magazine (7) containing dividers and arranged to supply the receptacle (5) under the control of the means (6) for detecting the end of a document.
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