JPS6164670A - Sheet sorter - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To process sheet accurately in sheet sorter jointable in multi-stages for containing the sheet to be fed from copy machine into plural bins, by prohibiting movement of prestage bottle until completion of sorting of post stage sheet. CONSTITUTION:Sheet sorters 19, 20 are provided with plural sheet sorting means having plural bins for containing the sheet and means for moving the bins to contain the sheet into plural bins. Furthermore, means for controlling the moving means such that the movement of bin in the sorter 19 is prohibited until many sheets exceeding over the processing capacity of prestage sorter 19 is carried to post-stage sorter 20 and sorted is provided.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Technical Field The present invention relates to a sheet having a plurality of storage means and storing fed sorted items in the plurality of storage means by moving the storage means (hereinafter referred to as Pino). Relating to a classification device.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there has been known an apparatus that has a plurality of bins and moves the bins in order to sort sheets discharged from a recording device such as a copying machine into a plurality of bins.

However, with such a device, multi-stage connection is not possible, and a large number of sheets cannot be sorted.

Purpose The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned points, and it enables multi-stage connection of sheet sorting means for sorting sheets by moving a storage section, and enables sheet sorting by accurately processing a large amount of sheets. Embodiments of Providing Apparatus Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing a connection form 8A3 of a copying position "A", an automatic document feeder, and a bin movable sheet sorting device (hereinafter referred to as a sorter); FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a control section of the sorter;
Figure 3.4 is a timing chart of each part of the equipment, Figure 5 is a diagram showing the state of the sorter in the sort mode, and Figure 6-1.
Figures 6 to 6-3 are flowcharts for executing sort mode and reverse sort mode.

As shown in FIG. 1, the copying machine 17 has an automatic document feeder 18, and a bin movable sorter 1 is installed on the paper output side of the copying machine.
9.20 is connected.

The sorters 19, 20 each have storage compartments for 25 sheets.

The operation motes of the bin movable sorter include a tray mote for storing sorted items discharged from the copying device 17 in the tray 7100;
A group tray mote that stores a predetermined number of sorted sheets (in this embodiment, 50 sheets for A4 size or smaller, 25 sheets for B4 size or larger) sorted from the copying device 17, and a series of sheets related to t jobs. For example, there is a collate mode in which sorted copies of the same document are stored in one bin and shifted each time the document is replaced, and a reverse sort mode in which a series of sheets related to one job are stored in a sort mode.

For example, when communicating between the copying machine 17 and the sorter 19, data of each category is communicated by Norial communication between the copying machine 17 and the sorter 19 and 20.

When the copying device 17 outputs requests +, +'-;
is output to the copying device 17, and the copying device 17 outputs a signal TX.
Data is sent by D.

When the sorter 19 receives this data, it is copied from the sorter 19? Data is sent to C location 17 by signal RXD. Also, is there data communication between 19 and sorter 20? I will be attacked. The data sent through this pass is shown in Table 1.2.

Table 1 Tracing, J data (1) Duplicate device - Sorter 1 Sorter 1 → Sorter 2 IssT Sorter operation No. 46 2, HON Paper ejection signal on the paper sending side 31 B C
R sorter book - Mponnoyo/moving signal 4/BSFT
Sorter 1 Hinft signal 5/REQ Sorter storage sheet request signal 6/Operating mode - Sorting mode/Collate mode/Tray mode - 7' J A M reset No. 16 0/Size stator Paper size 9/Sheet count data ()II M(P Number of sheets.

IQ' internal RAM address data table 2 JIII et al. data (2) Sorter 1 - Copying device sorter 2-1 - Sorter 1 1 STBY Sorter star/8ii, j No. 2, SJ
AM Sorter JAM signal 31 A L A R M Sort 7 Sino-open signal 40 SRT Old original sheet medium signal 5 RSRT Reverse sort signal 61 Total bin number data Sorter completed sheet number data 8I Internal RAM data. The S-CNCT reduces the connection between the copying device 17 and the sorter 19 (No. 11, S-ON is connected to the sorter 1
, S 2 −
CNCT is connected to sorter 19 and sorter 20, etc.(, I° Bow Sl-CNCT is,
This is a signal that controls power supply to the sorter 20.

Next, two originals. When the set number of sheets is 30 and sorting is performed using sort mode and reverse sort mode: iS6
-1 to 6-3 The operation will be explained with reference to the IN flowchart.

When the copy key of Copy-'A rL is pressed, the copy number data (30 sheets) and the copy number data are sent from the sheet motor or copying machine to the sorter 19 via communication.

A BCR/SST signal is then sent. BCR i1□-
;, the sorter 19 sends the number data of 5 sheets exceeding 25 sheets to the sorter 20, and then the BCR/
Send SST signal to sorter 2o (see Figure 3), BCR
Upon receiving the signal, the sorters 19 and 20 move the bins to the home bins (first bins) for each sort (■ in the JS5 diagram).

When the bin movement of the sorter 20 is completed, 5T is transferred to the sorter 19.
Send BY signal. When the sorter 19 completes its bin movement and receives the 5TBY signal from the sorter 2o, it sends STBY No. 44 to the copying device 17. (See figure m3), when the copying device 17 receives the 5TBY signal from the sorter 19.

BCR signal is OF　F　l,　,　Move to copy operation.

Further, the sorter 19 operates the sorter's transport motor 2 when the BCR signal becomes OFF.

While one sheet [1] is passing through the paper ejection sensor 16 of the copying device 17, a paper ejection signal HON is sent to the sorter 19. 7-ta 1
9 is C17) HON 4; +,; KaON KaraO
The JAM timer is activated from the time it becomes FF, and the arrival at the sort paper sensor 22 is monitored. Each time a sheet passes through the sorting paper sensor 22, the bin motor 5 is operated to raise the bin by one bin until up to 25 sheets arrive at the sorting paper sensor 22 (FIG. 5-2).

After storing 25 sheets in the sorter 19, the sorter 19 moves to the bridge 10 at the 26th hinge.

The 26th sheet from the copying machine that operates the transport motor of the sorter 20 by turning off the BCR signal to the sorter 20 is delivered to the sorter 2 via this bridge.
sent to o. At this time, by simultaneously sending the paper ejection signal HON of the sorter 19 to the sorter 20, the sorter 1
9 and the sorter 20 is detected (FIG. 5-■).

The sorter 20 moves up one bin each time the 26th to 29th sheet passes through the sorter 15. When the 30th sorted sheet passes through sorter 2o, sorter 19
Number of sheets sent from 5 sheets and sheets sorted by sorter 2o fl! Since 5 cards match, raising the 1-bin is prohibited. In addition, when copying of the set number of sheets in copying units R and 17 is completed, the automatic document feeder sets the next original in the exposure position of copying units R and 17. , similarly sends the number data and sort mode to the sorter 19, and then sends the BCR/SST signal. At the same time, the sorter 19 turns off the 5TBY signal until the copied sheets of the previous original are completely delivered to the sorter 19 or sorter 2o.

The O5RT signal is sent to the copying device 17. At this time, when the last copied sheet of the previous original passes through the sorter 19,
After sending data on the number of surplus sheets in one category and sort mode to the sorter 20, a BCR/SSTg number is sent. sorter 19
Since the number data exceeds the number of sheets for classification U (the number of sheets available), the previous number data (30 sheets) and the number of sheets for one sheet match, the bin position is at the 26th bin, and the SST signal is continuous, so there is one classification surplus. An operation mode is set as a mode for sending the number of sheets to the sorter 20 and sorting them as described later.

The sorter 20 sends a 5TBY signal to the sorter 19 until the last sheet of the previous document is stored, 0FFL, osRT4.
Send the r number. When the last sheet is stored, sorter 2o
The bin position (5th)), the number of sheets of the first original (5 sheets), and the number of stored sheets of the previous original (5 sheets) match, and the SS
Since the T signal is continuous, the operation mode is set to reverse sort mode, and the O5RT signal is set to 0FFL, 5TBY.
The signal and C/R5RTuM are sent to the sorter 19.

Sorter 19 receives 5 TBY from sorter 20. When the number is received, if the reverse sort mode of sorter 19 is confirmed,
Send 5 TBY 1; and R5 FIT message) to the copying device 17. Copy 7r17.

+iij, the copying operation is started for sorting which was fed from a cassette or the like, and first, sorting is started from the sorter 20. When the sorter 20 stores the first sheet,
The opposite of sortmote.

1 Binoy I# (Fig. 5-■), and when the copying device 17 finishes copying the surplus number of sheets (5 sheets), the 05RTI from the sorter 19 and the +° bow move to I1. If so, Sea I temporarily passes through the bridge 10 and the sorter 20
+ l constant time of ``+lJ1''; adding the time for sorter 19 to move from the 26th bin to the 25th bin,
The copying operation is stopped and the sorted (fifth sheet) is completely sent to the sorter 19. Sorter 19 transfers the 5th sheet to bridge 1
0, the sorter 20 is sent a pseudo BCR/SST.
send a signal.

When the sorter 20 receives the BCR signal, it outputs the O5RT signals tONI, 5TB until it stores the sort on the bridge.
Turn off the Y signal (see Figure 4). Since the sorter 20 is in reverse sort mode, when receiving B CR4, %,
In addition to adding the mote to the sort mote (stamp), the bin position is in the 1st bin where the sort home is ・N・Nyo/, so if you store the sort (5 pieces 11), 0SRT
(The cf signal is reset and the 5TBY signal is sent to the sorter 19. At this time, the conveyance motor of the sorter 20 is stopped until the BCR signal is turned off.

After the sorter 19 sends the BcR/5ST4a number similar to Bi, it prohibits BIN movement until the OS RT signal from the sorter 20 is turned off. When the 0SRT signal turns OFF, the sorter 19 moves to the 25 bin 11, and sorts the bins while lowering the bins each time 6 sheets 1 to 30 sheets 11 are stored in the sorter 19 (:fSS diagram-■ ).

The set number of sheets is 50 sheets.1 The selected sheet size is A3.
It will be explained as follows.

When the copy key of the copying device is pressed, the set number of copies (5
0 sheets) data is sent from the collate mode or copying machine to the sorter 19 via communication, and then a BCR/SST signal is sent. In response to the BCFi signal, the sorter 19 forwards the copy setting number (50 sheets) data and the collate mode to the sorter 20, and then sends the BCR/SST signal. As a result, sorters 19 and 20 move to the 1st bin, which is the collate home position 1.

When each sorter 19 and 20 completes their movement, the sorter 19
Copying unit 7 &: transmits the S T B Y signal.

It is notified that the collate operation of sorters 19 and 20 is capable of 131 operations. The copying machine starts sorting A3 paper from the first copy and turns off the BCR signal.

At this time, the 81 copying device sends paper size data to the sorter 19 in advance.

When the BCR signal is 0FFL, the sorter 19 determines the number of sheets to be loaded per 1 bin based on the paper size.For small sizes such as A4 size, it is 50 sheets, and for other large sizes, it is 25 sheets. From the copying machine °'1 to 4ri stored in A3 sort or bin, JZt J & number of sheets is reduced by 1 sheet, and the number of sheets stored in the bin is added by 1 sheet.In this way, 25 sheets of A3 are stored in 1 bin. When stored, the loaded sheet number counter becomes O, the l bin rises, and the loaded sheet number counter is set again according to the paper size.

The remaining 25 cards are stored in the second hinge. When a total of 50 sheets are stored in the 1st bin and 2nd bin of the sorter 19, the collate copy setting number data and the bin storage number data both match 50 sheets, so even though the loaded sheet number counter is 0, It doesn't rise.

The copying machine can sew 50 copies of an iSl original.
A collate binft signal BSFT is sent to the sorter 19 at the same time as the next document is set. Due to this,
When the sorter 19 has completely sorted the previous document, it moves up by one pin, sets the stacked sheet number counter again according to the paper size, sets the bin stored sheet number data to O, and performs the operations described in nij to sort the first document. Sorter 1 to sort
9, 1 hin 11.2 hif 11, 25 troughs.

A total of 50 sheets, and the third sheet of the second manuscript.

A total of 50 sheets are classified into 4 hin 11.

In addition, in the unimplemented example, a copying device and a sorter were combined.
The present invention is not limited to this.

The present invention can also be applied when M1 is combined with a printer or the like that records data output from a computer or the like and a sorter.

Effects As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to connect the sorting means for sorting in multiple stages by moving the storage section, and furthermore, the storage section in the previous stage can be moved until the sorting of sheets in the latter stage is completed. Since the seat is prohibited, the seat can be stored accurately.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure 1 shows a copying machine with an automatic document feeder and the operation timing of each part of the apparatus in reverse sort mode. It is a flowchart of a control program. In the figure, 17 is a copying device, 18 is an automatic document feeder, and 19.20 is a sorter.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A plurality of sheet sorting means having a plurality of storage sections for storing sheets; a moving means for moving the storage means to store fed sheets in the plurality of storage sections; a front stage; The above-mentioned movement is performed to transport sheets exceeding the processing capacity of the sheet sorting means to the subsequent sheet sorting means, and to prohibit movement of the storage sections in the previous and subsequent sheet sorting means until the sheets are sorted by the subsequent sheet sorting means. A sorting and classification device comprising: control means for controlling the means.