Method of automatically sorting thin sheet articles

US4236639A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• GAO Gesellschaft für Automation und organisation mbH · DE

Inventors

• Horst Boettge · Oberweißbach/Thüringer Wald, DE
• Wilhelm Mitzel · Neu-Ulm, DE
• Herbert Bernardi · Arget, DE
• Josef Geier · Regen, DE
• Norbert Osswald · Hochbruck, DE
• Gerd von Aschwege · Munich, DE
• Robert Schaetz · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 5, 1978
• Grant date: Dec 2, 1980
• Expiry date: Jan 5, 1998

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T83/783
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method and apparatus for automatically sorting packets of thin sheet articles such as securities, bank notes and the like which are bound in a stack by a band. A series of modular units are provided in which the band and the stack are mechanically separated, each sheet of the stack is conveyed independent of the band, each sheet is tested and directed to a target location dependent upon the results of the test. The transport of sheets having predetermined characteristics is coordinated with the transport of the band.