Mimeographic printing machine

Patent 5279218 Issued on January 18, 1994. Estimated Expiration Date:

May 14, 2013. 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.

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Inventors

Assignee

Riso Kagaku Corporation

Application

No. 061101 filed on 05/14/1993

US Classes:

101/2, PRINTING AND SORTING101/90, Duplicating machines270/58.02, Sheet arrival sensor270/58.18, Plural stackers271/288, With control means to vary mode of operation271/296By diverter or conveyor moving past receivers

Examiners

Primary: Eickholt, Eugene H.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Kanesaka and Takeuchi

International Class

B41F 005/02

Foreign Application Priority Data

1992-05-19 JP

Abstract

A mimeographic printing machine comprising: mimeographic printing means for printing an image of an original document on successive sheets one at a time and for discharging the printed sheets; a sorter having a plurality of bins for receiving the printed sheets discharged from the mimeographic printing means; mode setting means for setting up the sorter for a specified mode such that a number of the printed sheets, which are printed for the same original document and exceed the number of the bins of the sorter, will be received on the bins in a specified order; and control means for detecting that the specified mode is set up by the mode setting means and for controlling the mimeographic printing means and the sorter in such a manner that the printed sheets discharged from the mimeographic printing means will be received orderly one after another in the bins, from the first bin to the last bin, and then the following printed sheets discharged from the mimeographic printing means will be received orderly one after another in the bins from the first bin.