MULTIDIRECTIONALLY STEPPED AUTO-COLLATOR SYSTEM AND METHOD

Abstract: an automated media sheet processing system for automated collating, stacking and transferring media sheets exiting a media source includes a dynamically oriented baffle having a plurality of stepped bins. each stepped bin is slidingly arranged adjacent another stepped bin, with the stepped bins configured to receive media sheets and allow them to fall onto and accumulate on the stepped bins. the stepped bins may move and change orientation into a stair configuration descending in different directions. an automated reciprocating pusher may move in the different directions orthogonally to the stepped bins to move and collate the media sheets into collated stacks downstream the stepped bins on different or opposite sides of the dynamically oriented baffle, with no reset or extraneous movement needed between reciprocating pushes. no reset is needed because the reciprocating pusher ends a first push in position to start a next push to the opposite side.

Inventor(s): Douglas K. HERRMANN

CPC Classification: B65H39/115 (in juxtaposed carriers)

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