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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:
Feb. 23, 1982
Filed:
Sep. 19, 1979
Applicant:
Inventors:
Anthony J Botte, Boulder, CO (US);
James H Hubbard, Boulder, CO (US);
Wayne E Robbins, Longmont, CO (US);
Paul R Spivey, Clark County, KY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
371 60 ; 270 58 ; 271259 ; 271296 ; 364478 ;
Abstract
Sheet collator apparatus having means for recovery from collating errors. Moving between two adjacent bins without feeding a sheet, feeding two sheets into one bin, or feeding a sheet while the feeder is moving are errors that are detected and corrected. An error is corrected by homing the deflector and repositioning it at the correct bin before restart. The described embodiment includes two collators, i.e., tandem units.