JPH02149178A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prevent disorder of the sequence of received documents and to eliminate the need for the turning over of the front and rear sides by printing out a count in the order of carriage onto a paper sheet discharged by an automatic serial print means, turning over the front and rear sides of the paper automatically with a stacker means and stacking the paper sheets in the order of carriage. CONSTITUTION:When a reception start switch 102 is depressed, a counter 103 for serial number count is once reset and after a 1st paper is started, the count is started and the count is sent to a serial number printer mechanism 105 as a print start signal via a print control section 104 and the serial number is printed out on the rear side of a FAX paper carried through a paper running system 112 by a 1st roller 114. The paper with a serial number printed thereon is turned over by a 2nd roller 108 and a guard 109 and the discharged paper 111 is being stacked onto a transparent paper receiving plate 110 while the front and rear sides are opposite to those of the paper on the paper running system 112. Thus, the order of the received documents is not confused and it is not required for a recipient to turn over the documents.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a facsimile device that prints a transmitted message on paper.

(Prior Art) In a conventional facsimile machine, after sequentially transmitted messages are printed on paper, the paper is stacked and stored page by page with the printed side facing up.

(Problem to be solved by the invention! ff> However, with conventional facsimile machines, if sheets of paper become tangled together during reception, and if the sender forgets to put serial numbers on the documents, the receiver can check the order of the documents. The disadvantage is that it becomes difficult to understand.

In addition, in conventional facsimile machines, the printed side is on the front side, and sheets of paper on which the messages to be sent are printed are stacked on top of each other in the order in which they were sent, so when a person organizes the accumulated sent documents, There is a drawback that the front and back sides of the document must be manually reversed so that the bottom document becomes the top side.

It is an object of the present invention to solve the above-mentioned drawbacks, and provides a facsimile device that does not confuse the order of documents sent by a facsimile device and does not require a recipient to turn the documents upside down. The purpose is to provide

(Means for Solving the Problem) The above problem is a facsimile equipped with a reception start switch that is turned on when a message is received, and a facsimile control means that displays the message on a paper after the reception start switch is turned on. The apparatus includes a discharge detection means for detecting the discharge of the paper, and a counter that is reset when the reception start switch is turned on for the first time and is sequentially counted up each time the discharge is sequentially detected by the discharge detection means. and printing means for printing a count counted by the counter means on the paper each time the paper is sent out; and a reversing unit for reversing the front and back sides of the sheets that are sequentially sent out. This can be solved by providing a stacker means having a means for stacking the sheets sequentially sent out from the reversing means in order.

(Function) According to the present invention, the count number is printed on the sheets of paper ejected by the automatic serial number printing means in the order in which they are sent out. This count allows the documents to be rearranged in the order of transmission, and the order of the documents is not confused.

Further, according to the present invention, the stacker means automatically reverses the front and back of the sheets and stacks them in the order of delivery. Therefore, the recipient does not have to take the trouble of reversing the front and back of the document for each sheet.

(Example) An example of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

Facsimile machine (hereinafter referred to as FAX machine) 113
A line 101 is connected to. A message transmission signal from the line 101 is input to a reception activation switch 102. The output from the reception start switch 102 is input to a FAX control section 106 as facsimile control means of the present invention. Further, a message signal from the line IO1 is input to the FAX control section 106, and the message is printed on FAX paper by the FAX control section 106.

The output signal from the reception activation switch 102 is input to a counter 103 as a counting means of the present invention, and the input signal from the discharge detection mechanism 115 as a discharge detection means of the present invention is input to the counter 103'. It has become so.

The output signal of the counter 103 is sent to the print control section 104.
The output signal of the print control unit 104 is input to the serial number printer mechanism 105. Note that the print control unit 104 and the serial number printer i structure 105 constitute the printing means of the present invention.

Further, the discharge detection V& mechanism 115, the counter 103, the print control section 104, and the serial number printer mechanism 105 constitute automatic serial number printing means of the present invention.

The flow of paper ejected from the FAX control unit 106 is shown by dotted lines in the figure, and the paper from the FAX control unit 106 is ejected to a paper transport system 112. The discharge detection mechanism 115 is provided facing the paper transport system 112 . In addition, the paper transport system 112 includes a 10th roller 114 for transporting paper.
A 20th roller 108 supported by a column 107 is also provided for paper conveyance. Said 20th-La 108
A guard 109 is provided in front of the paper to guide the paper upward in the figure. Here the 20th - La 108 and Guard 109
constitutes the reversing means of the present invention. Further, on the support column 107, a transparent paper tray plate 110, which is a paper tray means of the present invention and is made of a transparent material such as glass stick, is erected. Incidentally, the 20th roller 108, the guard 109, and the transparent paper receiver together with the plate 110 constitute a stacker [t19116], and the stacker mechanism 116 constitutes the stacker means of the present invention.

Next, the operating state of this embodiment will be explained.

When a message is sent to the FAX machine 113 via the line 101, the reception activation switch 10
By pressing 2 (or automatically setting the equivalent state to pressing the reception start switch), the FAX reception becomes possible, and the message is sent to the FA
The FAXt sentence converted by the X control unit 106 is printed out on paper and sent to the paper transport system 112. The paper discharged to the paper transport system 112 is carried over the transport system 112 by a tenth roller 114, and the paper is transported over the transport system 112 by the above-mentioned reception start switch 1.
When 02 is pressed, the counter 103 for counting serial numbers is -
It is reset once and starts counting after the first sheet of paper starts.

That is, the counter 103 counts up by checking the number of sheets by the discharge detection mechanism 105 and incrementing the counter value by +1 based on the output thereof.

The counter value of the counter 103 is sent via the print control unit 104 to the serial number printer mechanism 105 as a print start signal. In the serial number printer mechanism 105, the paper transport system 1
12 is printed out on the back side of the FAX paper carried by the 10th-ra 114, and the serial number for each paper calculation FAX communication is printed out. In addition, the ■ symbol in the figure indicates the surface of the paper (
The O symbol indicates the back side of the paper.

The paper on which the serial numbers have been printed is further conveyed on the paper transport system 112, and is turned over at the 20th roller 108 and the guard 109 at the upper end of the FAX machine. The ejected paper 111 is placed above the paper transport system 11.
The paper sheets are stacked with the front and back sides reversed from those on 2.

By operating as described above, the transparent paper tray is moved to the plate 110.
Above, all the sheets are turned upside down as a bundle, but when viewed from the printing side of the first sheet, all the sheets are aligned in order with their front sides, and on each back side,
The serial numbers in this FAX3J1 communication will be added. That is, when the automatic serial number printing means automatically prints a serial number for each series of received sheets on the received output sheet, and the stacker mechanism 116 prints all the received sheets in the order sent by the sender when viewed from the printing surface side. Because the paper is output with the front and back sides aligned and not reversed, the sender may forget to add a serial number, or the receiving side may not be able to tell the continuity of the received paper due to a jam in the fax paper transport system. All of the receiving papers are stacked one on top of the other with the print side facing up, and each recipient receives one.
This is effective in resolving the inconvenience of having to readjust the front and back sides of each sheet.

Further, since the transparent paper tray plate 110 is made of transparent plastic or the like, the operator can see the first page of the received fax through the transparent paper tray plate 110. Book FA with paper still on 110
It is possible to check whether X is what the operator expected.

(Effects of the Invention) As explained above, according to the facsimile machine of the present invention, the order of documents sent by the facsimile machine is not confused, and there is no need for the recipient to turn the documents upside down. .

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention. 1o1... Line, 102... Reception activation switch, 1
03...Counter, 104...Print control unit, 1
05... Serial number printer mechanism, 106... FAX control unit, 108... 20th-ra, 109... Guard, 1
10...Transparent paper tray is a board, 112...Paper transport system,
113...FAXM location, 115...Discharge detection mechanism,
116...Stacker a Kozue.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A facsimile machine comprising a reception activation switch that becomes CN upon reception of a message, and facsimile control means for displaying the message on a sheet of paper after the reception activation switch is turned ON, comprising: a counter means that is reset when the reception start switch is turned on for the first time and is counted up sequentially each time the discharge is sequentially detected by the discharge detection means; automatic serial number printing means having a printing means for printing the count counted by the counter means on the paper each time; a reversing means for reversing the front and back sides of the sheets sequentially sent out; 1. A facsimile apparatus comprising: a stacker means having a paper receiving means for sequentially stacking paper sheets;