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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 1979
Filed:
Dec. 27, 1977
Myrl J Miller, Boulder, CO (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A large capacity input bin for a copier/duplicator is capable of receiving a multiplicity of stacks of sheets requiring processing. Control data describing the job to be done for the first stack in the input tray is introduced as by header information, operator input or the like. All sheets associated with the stack are bottom fed from the input tray to a processing station and then to at least one additional tray or bin. The documents are subsequently processed for additional copies as specified by the input data by bottom feeding from the additional tray and top stacking the copied documents into that same tray or into yet another additional tray. Completion of the total number of document copies through the recirculation associated with the additional trays results in unloading of the original documents from the additional tray or trays. Jam recovery is obtainable by reverse or top feeding of documents requiring recycling from the additional bin or bins.