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Sorting apparatus

US4681310A · kind A · utility

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12Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateSep 23, 1985
Grant dateJul 21, 1987
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Expiry dateSep 23, 2005

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB65H2408/113
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus in which sheets are sorted in selected ones of a plurality of movable trays shiftable relative to one another. One edge of the trays is supported with the remaining edges thereof being unsupported. Successive trays move from one side of a sheet inlet region to the other side thereof with the trays shifting relative to one another to provide wide entry regions at the sheet inlet region and at a sheet securing region.

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