Continuous paper sorting machine

A continuous paper sorter mechanism, comprising:

• (a) a receiver section having a support frame including a base section with caster means attached to the bottom of said base for movement of said receiver along a track assembly and further including upstanding support frame means for supporting a predetermined equal number of paper receiving bin means in side-by-side columns in such a way that said columns are canted at a preselected angle in the direction of movement of said receiver and which frame means has an entrance side and an unloading side and which sides are adapted to be generally parallel to a feed conveyor,
• (b) an elongated floor track assembly for supporting said receiver mechanism thereon, and including drive means for moving said receiver in both directions along a predetermined path on said track assembly,
• (c) a generally upright continuous feeder mechanism including (1) a main supporting frame including a base section and an upstanding tower section, (2) a first infeed conveyor means for receiving sheets of paper to be sorted from a paper copy-making device and having a receiving end and a discharge end, said first conveyor means including directional deflector means at its discharge end for selectively directing sheets of paper to a second or third intermediate conveyor means, (3) a second intermediate conveyor means for receiving paper sheets from said first conveyor means for transporting sheets of paper to the upper end of a feeder conveyor means, (4) a third intermediate conveyor means for transporting sheets of paper to the lower end of a feeder conveyor means, (5) generally vertically disposed fourth feeder conveyor means in predetermined spaced relation to the entrance side of said receiver section and which is reversible so as to selectively receive paper sheets from said second and third conveyor means, said fourth feeder conveyor also including a plurality of bin deflector means for selectively directing paper sheets into said bin means as the said paper sheets proceed along said fourth feeder conveyor means either from the top or from the bottom, and
• (d) means for moving all said conveyor means, means for selectively reversing said fourth feeder conveyor means, and means for selectively actuating all said deflector means.