公开(公告)号：BR7807371A

公开(公告)日：1979-05-15

申请号：BR7807371

申请日：1978-11-08

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： CLARK G ,  QUEENER C ,  JOHNSON F

IPC: B65H39/11 ,  B07C3/00 ,  B65H29/60 ,  B65H39/10 ,  G03G15/00 ,  G03G21/00 ,  B65H43/06 ,  G06F9/00

Abstract: The invention concerns a method and apparatus for operating a multibin sheet collator, particularly a copier/collator installation. Additional to the number of sets to be collated, the number of sheets contained in each set is entered into the collator logic. If this number of sheets in a set exceeds the capacity of a single collator bin, adjacent bins are grouped together and treated as one virtual bin with increased capacity, thus extending the collator usage. Sheets exceeding the total capacity of the collator can be fed into additional receptacles.