Sheet stacking device including turnable anti-slip stopper and post-processing device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11021340-B2
Application number	US-202016795135-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 19, 2020
Priority date	Feb 20, 2019
Publication date	Jun 1, 2021
Grant date	Jun 1, 2021

Abstract

A sheet stacking device includes a conveyance part and a stopper. The conveyance part includes a tray and a conveyance member. On the tray, sheet stacks are stacked. The conveyance member conveys the sheet stack on the tray. The stopper is located on a downstream side of the tray and prevents the sheet stack from falling from the tray. The stopper has a main plate and an anti-slip member. The main plate is inclined upward. The main plate has a contact face coming into contact with the sheet stack and a bent face bent downward from a downstream side tip end of the contact face. The anti-slip member is provided from a downstream side end portion of the contact face to the bent face. A frictional coefficient between the anti-slip member and the sheet stack is larger than a frictional coefficient between the sheet stack and the contact face.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A sheet stacking device comprising:
a conveyance part including a tray on which sheet stacks discharged from a discharge part at predetermined time intervals are stacked, and a conveyance member which conveys the sheet stack on the tray along a predetermined conveyance direction; and
a stopper provided on a downstream side of the tray in the conveyance direction and preventing the sheet stack from falling from the tray, wherein
the stopper has:
a main plate inclined upward toward the downstream side with respect to the tray, the main plate having a contact face coming into contact with the sheet stack and a bent face bent downward from a tip end on the downstream side of the contact face so as to retract from the contact face; and
at least one anti-slip member provided from a downstream side end portion of the contact face to the bent face and having a frictional coefficient with the sheet stack larger than the contact face, wherein
the at least one anti-slip member includes two anti-slip members, and
the two anti-slip members are disposed at both end portions of the stopper in a width direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction, and
the main plate has a plurality of ribs protruding upward from the contact face and extending along the conveyance direction at intervals in the width direction, and
an upper face of the anti-slip member is lower than an upper face of the plurality of ribs.

2. The sheet stacking device according to claim 1 , wherein
the two anti-slip members are disposed outside the plurality of ribs in the width direction,
downstream side end portions of the plurality of ribs are disposed upstream of the bent face in the conveyance direction, and
upstream side end portions of the two anti-slip members are disposed upstream of the downstream side end portions of the plurality of ribs in the conveyance direction.

3. The sheet stacking device according to claim 1 , wherein
the bent face has two cover part each having a base portion and a tip portion, the base portion being stood perpendicular to the bent face and a tip portion being bent upward at right angles from a tip end of the base portion, and
the two cover parts cover downstream end portions of the two anti-slip members with the base portions and the tip portions.

4. The sheet stacking device according to claim 1 , wherein
a frictional coefficient of the anti-slip member with the sheet stack is larger than a fictional coefficient between the sheet stacks.

5. The sheet stacking device according to claim 1 , further comprising a collection part disposed below a downstream side end portion of the tray and collecting the sheet stack, wherein
the stopper is supported in a turnable manner between a restricting position where the stopper is inclined upward toward the downstream side from the downstream side end portion of the tray and a retracting position where the stopper is turned below the tray and retracts from the tray, and
the sheet stack is collected in the collection part in a state where the stopper is turned in the retracting position.

6. The sheet stacking device according to claim 5 , wherein
an inclined angle of the stopper with respect to the tray can be selectively set.

7. The sheet stacking device according to claim 1 , wherein
the conveyance member includes an endless belt circulating on the tray to convey the sheet stack, and
the sheet stacks are discharged on the tray by the discharge part at the predetermined time intervals and conveyed by the endless belt, whereby the sheet stacks are stacked on the tray at predetermined distance intervals in the conveyance direction.

8. The sheet stacking device according to claim 1 , further comprising a detection part disposed at a downstream side end portion of the tray and detecting that the tray is full of the sheet stacks stacked on the tray, wherein
after the detection part detects full of the sheet stacks, the conveyance part is stopped.

9. A post-processing device comprising:
a binding part binding a sheet stack;
a folding part folding the sheet stack bound by the binding part; and
the sheet stacking device according to claim 1 , on which the sheet stack folded by the folding part is stacked.

10. A sheet stacking device comprising:
a conveyance part including a tray on which sheet stacks discharged from a discharge part at predetermined time intervals are stacked, and a conveyance member which conveys the sheet stack on the tray along a predetermined conveyance direction; and
a stopper provided on a downstream side of the tray in the conveyance direction and preventing the sheet stack from falling from the tray, wherein
the stopper has:
a main plate inclined upward toward the downstream side with respect to the tray, the main plate having a contact face coming into contact with the sheet stack and a bent face bent downward from a tip end on the downstream side of the contact face so as to retract from the contact face; and
at least one anti-slip member provided from a downstream side end portion of the contact face to the bent face and having a frictional coefficient with the sheet stack larger than the contact face, and
the at least one anti-slip member is adhered along the contact face and the bent face.

Assignees

• Kyocera Document Solutions Inc

Inventors

• Kishimoto Tadahisa

Classifications

• B65H2301/51611

  involving at least a binding element traversing the handled material, e.g. staple · CPC title

• B65H37/06

  for folding · CPC title

• B65H31/10 Primary

  and applied at the top of the pile · CPC title

• B65H31/26

  Auxiliary devices for retaining articles in the pile · CPC title

• B65H45/04

  Folding sheets · CPC title