APPARATUS FOR ACCUMULATING AND DIRECTIONALLY REORIENTING SHEETS

摘要

APPARATUS FOR ACCUMULATING AND DIRECTIONALLY REORIENTING SHEETS An apparatus is disclosed for accumulating and directionally reorienting the movement of sheets being fed from a supplemental sheet feed path defined by a supplemental sheet feeding means into a primary sheet feed path defined by a primary sheet feeding means which feeds sheets from a primary source thereof. The apparatus has a pair of vertically stacked bins that receives sheets seriati m from the supplemental feed path which is normally disposed perpendicular to the primary feed path and accumulates them in each of the bins to form collations, a nd discharges the collations alternately from each bin into the primary feed path i n time synchronism with the movement of sheets from the primary source along the primar y feed path.