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US3343672A
US3343672A US464685A US46468565A US3343672A US 3343672 A US3343672 A US 3343672A US 464685 A US464685 A US 464685A US 46468565 A US46468565 A US 46468565A US 3343672 A US3343672 A US 3343672A
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Spanjersberg Arie Adriaan
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
    • B07C3/00—Sorting according to destination
    • B07C3/003—Destination control; Electro-mechanical or electro- magnetic delay memories
    • B07C3/006—Electric or electronic control circuits, e.g. delay lines
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
    • B65H2301/44—Moving, forwarding, guiding material
    • B65H2301/448—Diverting
    • B65H2301/4482—Diverting to multiple paths, i.e. more than 2
    • B65H2301/44822—3 paths
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2404/00—Parts for transporting or guiding the handled material
    • B65H2404/60—Other elements in face contact with handled material
    • B65H2404/63—Oscillating, pivoting around an axis parallel to face of material, e.g. diverting means
    • B65H2404/631—Juxtaposed diverting means with each an independant actuator

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  • the invention relates to a system for sorting documents, such as letters, which documents are provided with a sorting code in which the discharge points of the letters are chosen by combinations fixed at a central point or station for controlling a number of clack gates or switches in the system.
  • each isochrone channel section is marked with a photo-electric cell. If the front of a document or letter reaches the beginning of such a section, a photoelectric cell which marks that section, delivers an impulse, Which'is used to shift the information from the registers belonging to the previous isochrone channel section to the registers of the isochrone channel section in which the front ofthe document or letter appears.
  • FIG. 3 shows a table for the binary metering of the registers with a decimal translation
  • FIG. 4 shows a diagram of the signalling lamps for the signalling of jams for a system as shown in FIG 1;
  • FIG. 5 is a schematic block wiring diagram of a part of the control and check circuits for the system of FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 1 shows a horizontal channel h with a number of descending channels g1 through g8 leading to the outputs, discharge points, or stores.
  • the letters or documents are led one at a time into the channel h after being taken from the stack a by means of a feeding device b and then being led further past the reading device 1.
  • the destination of the letter is indicated on it in code signals and the code signals are scanned With the aid of the reading device 1 and converted into electrical impulses which are stored in two sets of three triggers in the controller circuit S.
  • the information transport by the shift register can now take place in such a way that, if e.g. one of the photoelectric cells f3, f2.1 or f1.2 is obscured, the information contents of the shift registers 82a and 521) are transported or shifted to the next registers re'sp. 53a and 53b. For the remaining isochrone channel sections this occurs in the same way.
  • the switches or clack gates in an isochrone channel section are connected via a logical circuit with the shift register sections for that isochrone channel section. If e.g.
  • shift register section Slb is 001 (thus a binarily coded l) the clack gate or switch k1 will be energized and the letter or document is conveyed into the vertical channel g1. If the letter is further destined for the second store in that channel g1, the binary information will, at the instant that the photocell f1.1 is covered by the front of the letter, be forwarded into shift register section 52a, which causes the excitation of clack gate or switch k1.2v
  • the sorting process for the remaining destinations takes place in an identical way.
  • a number of documents or letters can be in the outlet channels simultaneously; however, one letter can only be present per diagonal isochrone channel section shown in FIG. 1.
  • the lower ends of the vertical channels g1 through g8 are connected with the return channel r. If a document or letter does not find a switch, clack gate, or discharge point on its way in the sorting system so that that letter is brought into a store, this document or letter is transported to the return channel r.
  • FIGURE 2 two switches or clack gates lying at the same or an equal height in a vertical channel are indicated. These can be e.g. the clack switches or clack gates k1.1 and k1.2 of the first vertical channel g1 in FIG. 1. These clack gates k1.1 and k1.2 are drawn in full lines in their unoperated positions, wherein the electromagnets which work them, are not energized. In such a case a document or letter will pass both clack gates and be conveyed further downwards through the vertical channel g1.
  • FIG. 5 shows the part of the control and checking circircuit which relates to the third isochrone channel section in FIG. 1. If the front of a letter passes one of the photocells f3, 12.1 or 71.2, one of the inputs of the OR-gate P1 becomes negative. The output of the converting amplifier or inverter V1 then becomes positive which combination forms a NOR-gate G10. By means of the AND-gates P2 through P7, working with the positive polarity, the information from the shift register sections 52a and 52b is transferred into the sections S312 and S312 (the latter two groups of triggers 82b and 53b are not shown in FIG. 5 to reduce its complexity).
  • timing means (D1, D2, L1 through L8, and L1.1 through L8.4) controlled by said detecting means and said gate means for detecting irregularities in the movements of said documents through said device.
  • a device comprising photoelectric cell means.
  • a device including a pair of switch means between each detecting means in each said branch channel.
  • timing means controls the operation of said gate means when a document is to be delivered at its adjacent output.
  • timing means for detecting irregularities includes an alarm means.
  • timing means includes means for preventing the operation of said alarm means when a document must not be delivered to an adjacent output.

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US3432035A (en) * 1966-12-13 1969-03-11 Rca Corp Document handling apparatus
US3531108A (en) * 1968-06-04 1970-09-29 Control Data Corp Document stacker and/or sorter
US3596782A (en) * 1969-02-25 1971-08-03 Lon H Romanski Sorting apparatus
US3709382A (en) * 1971-06-04 1973-01-09 W Morris Sorting apparatus
USRE29792E (en) * 1972-01-10 1978-10-03 Pitney-Bowes, Inc. Batch ticket reader
US3791516A (en) * 1972-01-10 1974-02-12 Pitney Bowes Inc Batch ticket reader
US3762320A (en) * 1972-02-10 1973-10-02 Polygraph Leipzig Arrangement for controlling the stacking of printed sheets in multiple color rotary printing machines
US3946669A (en) * 1972-05-30 1976-03-30 Veb Polygraph Leipzig Kombinat Fur Polygraphische Maschinen Und Austrustungen Printing arrangement alternatively operated for one-side printing and two-side printing with control system therefor
US3889811A (en) * 1972-06-19 1975-06-17 Nippon Electric Co Flat-article sorting apparatus for an automatic mail handling system and the like
US3993193A (en) * 1973-04-30 1976-11-23 Optical Recognition Systems, Inc. Document sorting system
US4025420A (en) * 1973-09-28 1977-05-24 Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., Ltd. Thin-sheet-sorting apparatus
US4026543A (en) * 1975-11-28 1977-05-31 International Business Machines Corporation Document article handling control
US4167949A (en) * 1977-08-12 1979-09-18 Glory Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha Coin jamming detecting device in coin sorting machine
US4486015A (en) * 1981-06-09 1984-12-04 Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Sheet diverting device for copying apparatus or the like
US4503976A (en) * 1982-09-30 1985-03-12 Bell & Howell Company Envelope tracking system for mail sorting machines
US4548402A (en) * 1983-11-30 1985-10-22 Rank Xerox Limited Paper sorting apparatus for a copier
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