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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 1985
Filed:
Nov. 30, 1983
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yoshiharu Namba, Ebina, JP;
Assignee:
Rank Xerox Limited, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
271290 ; 271291 ;
Abstract
A sheet sorter apparatus is disclosed as having a basic sorter unit comprising a horizontal transport, a vertical transport, and a plurality of sorter bins wherein the vertical transport has a pair of bin indexing guide elements, one of which is arranged to index sheets into the bins sequentially, while the other element is arranged to index sheets to a second sorter unit containing only a plurality of bins thereby allowing the use of additional bins without added transport structure.