Sheet-material associating – Associating or disassociating – Sheet associating
Patent
1977-04-25
1979-03-20
Burr, Edgar S.
Sheet-material associating
Associating or disassociating
Sheet associating
271173, B65H 3905
Patent
active
041450370
ABSTRACT:
A sheet handling machine having the dual capability of either collating or sorting sheet material into individual booklets or collations. The machine has a plurality of sheet receiving bins operatively associated with infeed and outfeed locations of the machine, and a conveyor system for moving sheets between the infeed and outfeed locations in a predetermined sequence. The machine includes movable deflectors for deflecting sheets from the conveyor means into the bins, and feeding means located in the bins for feeding sheets from the bins back into the conveyor system. Appropriate controls are provided to cause the deflecting means or the feeding means to be selectively operable in a predetermined sequence. In a sorting mode of operation, successive copies of the first page of a booklet are fed into successive bins until each bin contains one copy. Thereafter, successive copies of each successive page of the booklet are fed into each bin until each bin contains a completed booklet. Thus, as many booklets are simultaneously formed as there are bins. In the collating mode, each bin is automatically loaded with a predetermined number of the same page of the booklet, and a single sheet from each bin is ejected and conveyed to a receiving station to form a single completed booklet.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3580563 (1971-05-01), Bassett
patent: 3664656 (1972-05-01), Ryland
patent: 3774902 (1973-11-01), Schulze
patent: 3802694 (1974-04-01), Post
Burr Edgar S.
Heinz A.
Pitney Bowes Inc.
Scribner Albert W.
Soltow, Jr. William D.
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