Facsimile output job sorting unit and system

Details Facsimile output job sorting unit and system Facsimile output job sorting unit and system

1992-08-24

1996-04-30

Ip, Paul

Facsimile and static presentation processing

Facsimile

Specific signal processing circuitry

271298, 271290, 379100, H04M 1100

Patent

active

055130135

ABSTRACT:
Separating the physical sheets outputted from a shared users printer, especially, a facsimile receiver, into separate job sets for separate designed recipients, with an independent "mailboxing" job sorting accessory unit, not requiring any electronic connection to the printer, controlled solely by physical job cover sheets outputted by the printer at the same output in advance of the other sheets of the job, which cover sheets variably encoded with simply and uncritically marked areas indicative of an assigned bin number and the job sheet count. The unit sequentially takes the printer output sheets and feeds them through a sheet input with optical sensing connecting with a control for detecting the marked area encoding of the cover sheet and determining if it corresponds to an assigned bin number, for feeding the subsequent output sheets of the designated sheet count to a designated bin subsequent to such a detection; and for feeding output sheets to another output sheet collection bin if no such encoding is detected. The disclosed unit also desirably has bin locking for restricting access to individual bins with electrical unlocking of a bin in response to entry of a bin access code. Also disclosed is automatic bin recipient telephoning.

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