A sheet conveying device includes: a sheet conveyance path that receives a sheet conveyed from an image forming apparatus and allows the sheet to be conveyed on the sheet conveyance path; a turnover conveyance path that diverges from the sheet conveyance path, receives the sheet conveyed from the sheet conveyance path to turn over the sheet, and allows the turned-over sheet to be conveyed on the turnover conveyance path; a first shunt conveyance path that is formed to connect to the turnover conveyance path and have a circularly curved shape and allows the sheet conveyed from the turnover conveyance path to be shunted and switched back on the first shunt conveyance path; and a first U-turn conveyance path that is formed to diverge from the first shunt conveyance path and allows the sheet switched back on the first shunt conveyance path to be conveyed toward the image forming apparatus.

Systems and methods are provided for configuring media transport flow paths for directing input image receiving media, including of different types, in sheet or roll form from multiple axes to provide wider latitude in selecting particular input image receiving media and combinations of input image receiving media to support execution of a print job. The disclosed schemes are directed at using one or more stationary turn bars disposed generally at 45 in an input media transport path approaching a marking module in an image forming system to allow for sheets or sheeted materials to be positioned at 90 to the in-line input image receiving media transport path directed toward the marking module thus allowing for flexibility in selection among various sources of stacked, pallet and rolled media.

A medium transport device includes a guide configured to guide a medium on which an image is recorded, and curved along a transport direction of the medium, and an actuator configured to actuate the guide between a contact position where the guide is in contact with the medium and a separation position where the guide is separated from the medium. The guide is configured to move to the contact position until a leading edge of the medium in the transport direction passes along the guide, and move to the separation position after the leading edge of the medium in the transport direction has passed along the guide.

A media sheet router moves sheets from a digital printer through the router and selectively to a plurality of finishers at full process speed. A router inlet path is aligned with the printer outlet path. Two router outlet paths are disposed at ninety degrees to the left and right of the router inlet path. The router outlet paths are each aligned with a finisher inlet path or another router. First and second turning elements are each mounted at forty-five degrees to the router inlet path and at ninety degrees to each other. Each turning element directs the sheets in a helical path to the router outlet paths. Transfer belts hold the sheets against each turning element. A bypass transfer moves the sheet to a bypass outlet path aligned with a bypass finisher inlet path. Diverters selectively direct the sheets onto the turning elements or the bypass transfer.

A strip deflection device (1) for deflecting a strip (2), in particular a metal strip, at an angle: at least one deflecting cylinder (3) around which the strip (2) can be deflected by a deflection angle (7) while maintaining strip tension. The angle is defined by the inlet direction (14) and the outlet direction (15) of the strip (2). Rollers (20) on the circumference of the deflection cylinder (3), form bearing faces of equal height for the strip (2) along a wrap around the cylinder. The deflection cylinder (3) can be adjusted between a first (31) and a second operating position (32) preferably perpendicular by an adjusting device (16). Each operating position (31, 32) is associated with a respective arrangement (10, 11) of the rollers (20) and the rollers in that arrangement (10, 11) are oriented in a direction that corresponds to the wrap around the cylinder.

The present applications relates to techniques and equipment to control the alignment of cut sheets of paper that are transported in parallel in an inserting system prior to their assembly into a document and inserted into an envelope. The alignment of the parallel sheets is adjusted by commanding incremental position changes to servo drive motors used to control the position of the parallel sheets during their transport through a hold module of the inserting system.

A sheet conveying device includes: a sheet conveyance path that receives a sheet conveyed from an image forming apparatus and allows the sheet to be conveyed on the sheet conveyance path; a turnover conveyance path that diverges from the sheet conveyance path, receives the sheet conveyed from the sheet conveyance path to turn over the sheet, and allows the turned-over sheet to be conveyed on the turnover conveyance path; a first shunt conveyance path that is formed to connect to the turnover conveyance path and have a circularly curved shape and allows the sheet conveyed from the turnover conveyance path to be shunted and switched back on the first shunt conveyance path; and a first U-turn conveyance path that is formed to diverge from the first shunt conveyance path and allows the sheet switched back on the first shunt conveyance path to be conveyed toward the image forming apparatus.

A recording apparatus includes a feed roller, a conveyance roller, a recording unit, a reverse path, and a control unit. The conveyance roller conveys a sheet fed by the feed roller. The recording unit performs recording on the conveyed sheet. The reverse path reverses, in the reverse path, a traveling direction of the sheet on which the recording is performed. The control unit performs control so that a leading edge of a second sheet overlaps a first sheet on which recording is being performed by the recording unit. Recording on the second sheet is to be performed by the recording unit following the recording on the first sheet. The control unit performs control to reverse the traveling direction of the first sheet and the traveling direction of the second sheet in the reverse path while maintaining an overlapping state of the first sheet and the second sheet.