Claims
- 1. A paper receiving bin for a printer or plotter including a front wall, a back wall, and a bottom wall all joined together in a bar or wire grid network to define a sheet receiving region with a length dimension, width dimension, and depth dimension defining at one end of said bin an opening for receiving paper fed from an output of said printer or plotter, said front wall further including a plurality of generally U-shaped members having upwardly facing convex surfaces for receiving stacked sheets of paper falling into said opening of said bin; and attachment means on said wire or bar grid network for hanging said bin from one or more upstanding leg members of a support stand for said printer or plotter and for positioning said depth dimension of said bin at a predetermined angle greater than zero degrees with respect to the free fall vertical direction of paper ejected from said printer or plotter.
- 2. The bin defined in claim 1 wherein said attachment means includes attachment devices secured to said front and back walls of said bin for receiving pens on a support stand for said printer or plotter.
- 3. The bin defined in claim 2 wherein said attachment devices are contoured bar or wire members spaced at different locations along said front and back walls of said bin for receiving said pens so as to orient said front wall at said predetermined angle with respect to vertical.
- 4. The bin defined in claim 1 which further includes an adjustable tray disposed in said bin between said front and back walls thereof.
- 5. The bin defined in claim 2 which further includes an adjustable tray disposed in said bin between said front and back walls thereof.
- 6. The bin defined in claim 3 which further includes an adjustable tray disposed in said bin between said front and back walls thereof.
- 7. The bin defined in claim 6 wherein said back wall has protruding elements thereon for terminating media curl adjacent to the bottom of said adjustable tray.
RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a continuation-in-part of our now allowed application Ser. No. 07/486,332 entitled "Method and Apparatus For Uniformly Stacking Cut Sheets of Printed Media", filed Feb. 28, 1990 now U.S. Pat. No. 5,110,111.
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