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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 1992
Filed:
Mar. 23, 1990
David J Tilles, Baltimore, MD (US);
Mark S Schroeder, Severna Park, MD (US);
Sharon A Duggan, Washington, DC (US);
Bruce A Krein, Columbia, MD (US);
Dale H Brown, Glen Burnie, MD (US);
Stanley K Wakamiya, Ellicott City, MD (US);
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for increasing the throughput of a multiple pass document sorting device that sorts documents into a plurality of output holders by automatically displacing the sorted documents within the receiving areas of each output holder into a transitional area to make the receiving areas available. In this manner a next sorting pass may be initiated, using documents from the transitional area from the output holders, without the need to empty all of the output holders before a sorting pass can be initiated.