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US 7,127,725 B2Granted
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.
Claims21
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;
- wherein the disc collator comprises:
- 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.
6 more elements
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.
2 more elements
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 carnage moves along the axis only.
4 more elements
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.
1 more element
A compact disc collator, comprising:
- a plurality of collator trays arranged in a substantially vertical stack along a common axis, each collator tray comprising:
- a stationary collating tray;
- and
- a flipper tray attached to the collating tray, the flipper tray rotatable about a pivot axis between the collating tray and the flipper tray.
1 more element
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.