Sheet process device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9381760-B2
Application number	US-201414457352-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 12, 2014
Priority date	Sep 18, 2013
Publication date	Jul 5, 2016
Grant date	Jul 5, 2016

Abstract

A sheet process device includes a processing part unit and a leg part unit. The processing part unit performs post process for a sheet ejected from an image forming apparatus. The leg part unit supports the processing part unit height-adjustably. The leg part unit includes a leg member, a fixed supporting member, and a movable supporting member. The leg member is extendable/contractable in upward and downward directions. The fixed supporting member is extended from a lower end of the leg member in a horizontal direction. The movable supporting member is stored in the fixed supporting member at the lower end of the leg member and extended in another horizontal direction being different from the extending direction of the fixed supporting member.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A sheet process device comprising:
a processing part unit performing post process for a sheet ejected from an image forming apparatus; and
a leg part unit supporting the processing part unit height-adjustably,
wherein the leg part unit includes
a leg member extendable/contractable in upward and downward directions,
a fixed supporting member extended from a lower end of the leg member in a horizontal direction, and
a movable supporting member stored in the fixed supporting member at the lower end of the leg member and extended in another horizontal direction being different from the extending direction of the fixed supporting member,

the fixed supporting member is extended from the lower end of the leg member in an opposite direction in a connection direction to the image forming apparatus,
the movable supporting member is extended from the lower end of the leg member in the connection direction to the image forming apparatus,
the movable supporting member is biased in the connection direction to the image forming apparatus with respect to the fixed supporting member by a biasing member, and stored in the fixed supporting member by being pushed by the image forming apparatus when connected to a side face of the image forming apparatus,
the fixed supporting member has a guiding part extended in the horizontal direction,
the movable supporting member has a guided part guided by the guiding part, and
the guided part is guided by the guiding part of the fixed supporting member when the movable supporting member is biased in the connection direction to the image forming apparatus by the biasing member or when the movable supporting member is stored in the fixed supporting member by being pushed by the image forming apparatus, and then, the movable supporting member is moved in the horizontal direction, and
the guiding part of the fixed supporting member has an engagingly stopping part at an end of the fixing supporting member adjacent to the image forming apparatus side,
the movable supporting member is biased in the connection direction to the image forming apparatus by the biasing member until the guided part is engagingly stopped by the engagingly stopping part.

2. The sheet process device according to claim 1 , wherein
the leg member has an upper inner tube body and a lower outer tube body into which the upper inner tube body is slidably fitted,
between the upper inner tube body and lower outer tube body, a shock absorbing member is arranged.

3. The sheet process device according to claim 1 , wherein
the leg part unit is configured to be movable horizontally.

Assignees

• Kyocera Document Solutions Inc

Inventors

• Egawa Keisuke
• Kawamoto Masuo

Classifications

• B41J29/13

  Cases or covers · CPC title

• B41J29/02 Primary

  Framework · CPC title

• F16M2200/08

  Foot or support base · CPC title

• F16M11/00

  Stands or trestles as supports for apparatus or articles placed thereon {; Stands for scientific apparatus such as gravitational force meters} (without heads F16M13/00; easels or stands for blackboards or the like A47B97/04; show-stands A47F7/00; for workmen E04G1/32; {sockets or holders for poles or posts E04H12/22;} supporting or suspending for lighting devices F21V21/00) · CPC title

• F16M11/04

  Means for attachment of apparatus; Means allowing adjustment of the apparatus relatively to the stand · CPC title