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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 1983
Filed:
Jul. 06, 1981
Charles R Brown, Rosendale, NY (US);
Theodore J Kohne, Uithoorn, NL;
Donald C Lancto, Charlotte, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A multi-function document processor, including proof inscribing and sorting functions. The document feed station keyboard, and stacker are connected in such a fashion so as to allow easy access to each of these machine elements by an operator without leaving a seated position. The advantageously accessible arrangement of functional elements is achieved by a novel use of rotary document processing stations, resulting in a folded transport path of significantly shorter length, and a transition station for moving the documents from a first plane into a second plane for more compact stacker pocket orientation. Document travel through the improved transport and into the stacker pockets is controlled by logic in the form of a plurality of microprocessors communicating via an okay to send wire.