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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 1981
Filed:
Jun. 29, 1979
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gerald W Baumann, Boulder, CO (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
271292 ; 271207 ; 271296 ;
Abstract
Universal sorting device for collating face-up, face-down, simplex and duplex copies outputted from a copier, offset press, or similar device. The sorting device includes a plurality of bins configured with a fixed module and a movable module. The fixed module includes a plurality of side walls orientated in a generally vertical direction. The movable module includes a throat plate having a plurality of openings with bottom walls orientated in a substantially horizontal direction. A mechanism shifts the movable module to align the bottom walls with the side walls to form the integral bins with associated openings to insert the copies.