US 4,483,124 A · Sheet-like material processing apparatus

Abstract

A sheet-like material processing apparatus is provided with a pre-processing section and a post-processing section. In the pre-processing section, the sheet-like material set in the supply section is taken out sheet by sheet and those taken-out ones are sorted, by an inspecting device, into at least two kinds of sheet-like material. A transfer/sorting device physically sorts those sheet-like material on the basis of the sorting by the inspection device. The sorted sheet-like material are separately collected each for a given number of the sheet-like material by a sorting and collecting device, and then are bundled by a sheet bundling device. A transfer device transfers the given number of the bundled sheet-like material. Of those sheet-like material transferred by said transfer device, the unreusable ones are invalidated by an invalidating device.

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Dependent claims

A sheet processing apparatus comprising:

sheet take-out/transfer means for taking out sheets set in a sheet supply section on a sheet-by-sheet basis and for transferring said sheets;
inspecting means for classifying said transferred sheets into at least a first and second class;
transfer/sorting means for transferring and sorting said classified sheets into first and second classes;
first collecting means for collecting a predetermined number of said sorted sheets for each of said first and second classes;
first bundling means for bundling said collected sheets together into packets of said first class;
transfer means for transferring said packets;
second collecting means for collecting a predetermined number of said transferred packets of said first class;
and
invalidated means for invalidating a predetermined number of said second class sheets.

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A sheet processing apparatus comprising:

sheet take-out/transfer means for taking out sheets set in a sheet supply section on a sheet-by-sheet basis and for transferring said sheets;
inspecting means for classifying said transferred sheets into at least a first and second class;
transfer/sorting means for transferring and sorting said classified sheets into said first and second classes;
first collecting means for collecting a predetermined number of said sorted sheets for each of said first and second classes;
first bundling means for bundling said collected sheets together into packets for each of said first and second classes;
transfer means for transferring said packets;
second collecting means for collecting a predetermined number of said transferred packets for each of said first and second classes;
and
second bundling means for bundling said collected packets together into bundles for each of said first and second classes.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Sheet-like material processing apparatus

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Sheet-like material processing apparatus

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