Sorter

Patent 4900009 Issued on February 13, 1990. Estimated Expiration Date:

April 19, 2008. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

Abstract Claims Description Full Text

Patent References

Collator
Patent #: 4405225
Issued on: 09/20/1983
Inventor: Perrault

Apparatus for sorting photocopies
Patent #: 4478406
Issued on: 10/23/1984
Inventor: DuBois

Paper sorting/storing apparatus Patent #: 4498665
Issued on: 02/12/1985
Inventor: Watanabe

Inventors

Assignee

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Application

No. 183705 filed on 04/19/1988

US Classes:

271/296, By diverter or conveyor moving past receivers271/288, With control means to vary mode of operation271/292, With movable receivers or receiver portions271/304Bidirectionally rotating diverter roller

Examiners

Primary: Kashnikow, Andres
Assistant: Trainor, Christopher G.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto

Foreign Patent References

3141447 DE. 04/12/1982
0102467 JP 06/12/1982
0135061 JP 08/12/1983
0212552 JP 12/12/1983
0220059 JP 12/12/1983

International Class

B65H 039/10

Foreign Application Priority Data

1987-04-20 JP

Abstract

A sheet material distributing apparatus includes a plurality of bins for accommodating sheet materials, a first sheet material gripping and conveying device displaceable to be opposed to a sheet material inlet of each of the bins, and a second sheet material gripping and conveying device displaceable to receive a sheet material from a sheet material discharging device and for transferring the sheet material to the first sheet material gripping and conveying device.