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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 1976
Filed:
Dec. 09, 1974
Thomas R Cross, Rochester, NY (US);
Clifford Lloyd George, Macedon, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A sheet sorting apparatus including a main bin and a plurality of sorting bins positioned adjacent to the main bin. A sheet transport including a horizontal conveyor and a vertical conveyor advance copy sheets from a copy processor past the inlets of the sorting bins. A deflector in the sheet path is actuatable from a first position to direction sheets into the main bin to a second position to direct sheets onto the horizontal conveyor which the moves them onto the vertical conveyor for entry into the sorting bins. The horizontal and vertical conveyors have a common drive and are of the vacuum type such that sheets can be handled face down past the main bin and directed along a path adjacent the inlets of the sorting bins.