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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:
Aug. 21, 1984
Filed:
Apr. 19, 1982
Applicant:
Inventor:
Frederick J Lawrence, Tustin, CA (US);
Assignee:
Gradco Systems, Inc., Santa Ana, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
271293 ; 271219 ;
Abstract
A sheet sorting machine of the movable bin type has a frame structure which supports a plurality of bins at one end of the bins, adjacent to a sheet entry location, the other ends of the bins being free and spaced for removal of sorted sets of sheets. The bins have pairs of trunnions at opposite sides engageable with one another and by pairs of bins shifting spiral cams to raise and lower the bins in parallelism. The trunnions for the bins and the spiral cams are mounted in spring loaded housing with springs which bias the trunnions into the spiral cams, and a trunnion is always in the cam track of the spiral cams.