Virtual bin collator control
US4134581A · kind A · utility
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12Claims
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 20, 1976 |
| Grant date | Jan 16, 1979 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 20, 1996 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB65H39/115
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
The invention concerns a method of controlling a multi-bin sheet collator. Adjacent collator bins are treated as one virtual bin and sheet feeding is controlled appropriately by skipping bins if the number of sets to be collated equals or is smaller than half the number of bins. Thus, multi-page documents having a number of pages exceeding the capacity of a single bin can be collated. In a combined copier/collator the number of copies selected by the operator determines the number of sets, and thus the size and grouping of the virtual bins.
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