Appeal No. 1997-0233 Page 9
Application No. 08/266,558
the return location 18, the wheels 171,172 press the belts
51,52 against one another and the rollers 174,174' are located
a certain distance apart, and documents are transported in the
direction shown by the lower, left-hand arrow. When documents
are to be transported to the lower part of the arrangement,
the control means 16 sends a signal to a solenoid 53, which
attracts the bridge 175 and therewith the link 173, thus
breaking the co-action between the wheels 171 and 172. During
its movement towards the solenoid 53, the link 173 comes into
contact
with a stop 176, whereupon solely the bridge 175 is rotated,
to some slight extent, thereby bringing the roller 174 into
co-action with the roller 174'. The document located between
the rollers at that particular moment will then be transported
in a direction at right angles to the belts 51,52, as shown by
the bent arrow at the top of Figure 5. Not only is the
document transported in a different direction, but it also
changes from being transported lengthwise (a short side first)
to being transported sideways (a long side first).
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