Patent ID: 7226049

Claim:
A multifunction printed sheets interface system comprising: plural sheet input areas, plural sheet outputs areas, a sheet position sensing system, and a sheet transporting system comprising a plane having first and second angularly spaced sides, said sheet transporting system comprising independently operable sheet transports and providing selectable sheet translation in the plane to selectably transport sheets from selected ones of said plural sheet input areas to selected ones of said plural sheet outputs areas so as to provide selectable sheet feeding from selected sheet input areas to selected sheet outputs areas, said sheet transports providing variable angle driving for selectable sheet rotation and translation of selected sheets in the plane whereby said sheets are selectably contemporaneously transportable in different directions towards said plural sheet outputs areas, a first of the sheet outputs areas being adjacent the first angularly spaced side of the plane and a second of said sheet outputs areas being adjacent the second angularly spaced side of the plane, wherein said sheet transporting system has a large planar area with a multiplicity of spaced apart independently operable variable sheet feeding direction and sheet velocity sheet transports, said large planar area being substantially larger than the dimensions of any sheet to be fed thereon to allow simultaneous plural sheet variable transport thereon by said multiplicity of spaced apart independently operable variable sheet feeding direction and sheet velocity sheet transports, said sheets being sensed thereon by said sheet position sensing system, and said sheet position sensing system controlling said multiplicity of spaced apart independently operable variable sheet feeding direction and sheet velocity sheet transports.