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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:
Oct. 20, 1981
Filed:
Dec. 10, 1979
Applicant:
Inventors:
Donovan M Janssen, Boulder, CO (US);
William S Seaward, Boulder, CO (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ; G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
355 / ; 355 / ; 355 / ; 271288 ; 414 52 ;
Abstract
Error recovery due to bin overflow in a document reproducing system such as an integrated copier system having a Cycling Automatic Document Feed (CADF), a multibin collator module and a bin unloading mechanism, is effectuated by attaching one or more spare bins or a second collator module and a controller to the reproducing system. Overflow copies from the multibin collator are loaded into the second collator module. A collated set of copies are formed by combining copies from the multibin collator and the second collator module.