Disc collator
AssigneeRimage Corporation
InventorJohn Scott Lee
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Abstract
A disc collator includes a series of collating trays for collating multiple discs. A disc can be deposited in any one of a number of trays according to where a user desires the disc to be placed, allowing prompt and timely retrieval of CDs. Motion of the disc collating system picker arm may be along only one axis.
Claims10
A compact disc processing system, comprising:
- a supply station for holding a plurality of blank compact discs;
- a printer for printing indicia on a compact disc, the printer including an extendable drawer adapted to receive the compact disc;
- a recorder for recording information on the compact disc, the recorder including an extendable drawer to receive the compact disc;
- a transporter carriage for holding and transporting the compact disc between drawers of the recorder and printer, the supply station, and
- a disc collator for collating CDs into discrete bins.
A compact disc processing system, comprising:
- a supply station for holding a plurality of blank compact discs;
- a printer for printing indicia on a compact disc, the printer including an extendable drawer adapted to receive the compact disc;
- a recorder for recording information on the compact disc, the recorder including an extendable drawer to receive the compact disc;
- a transporter carriage for holding and transporting the compact disc between drawers of the recorder and printer, the supply station, and
- a plurality of collators, each collator comprising a stationary collating tray and a rotatable flipper tray, the flipper tray rotatable about a pivot point between the flipper tray and the collating tray.
A compact disc processing system, comprising:
- a supply station for holding a plurality of blank compact discs;
- a printer for printing indicia on a compact disc, the printer including an extendable drawer adapted to receive the compact disc;
- a recorder for recording information on the compact disc, the recorder including an extendable drawer to receive the compact disc;
- a transporter carriage for holding and transporting the compact disc between drawers of the recorder and printer, the supply station, and
- a plurality of collators, each collator comprising a stationary collating tray and a rotatable flipper tray, the flipper tray rotatable about a pivot point between the flipper tray and the collating tray;
- and
- wherein the supply station, the extendable printer drawer, the extendable recorder drawer, and the flipper trays are aligned along an axis with the transporter carriage, and wherein the transporter carriage moves along the axis only.
A method of collating CDs in a CD processing system, comprising sorting CDs into discrete bins based on predefined criteria for sorting discs.
A method of collating CDs in a system, the method comprising:
- picking a CD to be sorted with a picker;
- raising the CD through at least one layer of a flipper tray collator until the CD is above a desired one of a plurality of collator trays;
- lowering the CD to just above the tray;
- and
- depositing the CD into the selected tray.
A collator for a CD processing system, comprising:
- a plurality of collator trays, each collator tray comprising:
- a stationary collating tray;
- and
- a rotatable flipper tray, the flipper tray rotatable about a pivot point between the flipper tray and the collating tray.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.