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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 1992
Filed:
Jun. 27, 1991
Hiroyuki Fujita, Sakai, JP;
Toshiyuki Nakade, Ibaraki, JP;
Yoshiki Yoshioka, Tsuzuki, JP;
Toshihiro Mori, Suita, JP;
Mita Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
In a sorter controller in which a plurality of sheets fed from the copying machine are separately placed in a plurality of sort bins, the preset copy number is inputted by the operation of an operation panel provided on the copying machine, and a number m of groups of sheets to be placed in a sort bin is calculated by m=INT(N/n), where INT represents a function for obtaining the integer of the number in the parenthesis and N represents the number of sheets that can be placed in a sort bin. When m.gtoreq.2, the sort bin in which the copied sheets are placed is changed every time n.times.m sheets are placed in a sort bin. According to such feature, the copied sheets of an original never be separately placed in a plurality of sort bins, and further, the available sort bins are effectively used.