摘要 |
PURPOSE:To sort originals automatically by original groups by sorting originals into a plurality of original groups while regarding one or a plurality of originals as one original group, and by operating a sorting plate in response to one-original-group original discharge end signal. CONSTITUTION:After a copy of an original is taken, it is discharged onto platen glass 13 by original carriage belt 11. As the final original in one original group of one or a plurality of originals is discharged, a programmable copying machine, etc., output a one-original-group original discharge end signal. Then, one of solenoids 3a-3e, e.g. 3a operates. As solenoid 3a operates, sorting-plate driving rod 2 projects toward sorting plate 1a against coil spring 4 and sorting plate 1a falls on discharge original 9. Consequently, originals can be sorted by original groups automatically. |