摘要 |
957,765. Sorting of documents. PARNALL & SONS Ltd. April 1, 1963 [April 4, 1962], No. 12879/62. Heading G4M. Cheques or football pool coupons are fed from a conveyer 7 to a rotating vacuum drum 9 which transports them past a sensing station 20 and on past sorting stations 15 arranged around the periphery of the drum. Drum 9 is provided with fixed shoes 21 in its interior to cut off the suction through perforations 14 in the vicinity of solenoid-actuated deflectors 16. The arms of deflectors 16 move into grooves in the drum surface to strip off the documents. Sensing may be magnetic or photo-electric. |