Rotary drum collator-sorter

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1977-06-29

1979-03-20

Burr, Edgar S.

Sheet-material associating

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Sheet associating

271173, B65H 32045

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041450388

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 arranged within a rotary drum operatively associated with infeed and outfeed locations of the machine. The machine includes a conveyor for depositing sheets into the bins, and rotary extracting means located adjacent the bins for extracting sheets from the bins. Appropriate controls are provided to cause the rotary drum 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 extracted and conveyed to a receiving station to form a single completed booklet.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2634971 (1953-04-01), Schweizer
patent: 3881716 (1975-05-01), Bryson
patent: 3970297 (1976-07-01), Blowsky

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