Patent ID: 6355896
Filing Date: 2002-03-12
Classification: B07C,Y10S

Abstract:
A sorting apparatus for sorting and receiving optical discs as a function of at least two different quality control codes associated with respective optical discs comprising:a base; a motor mounted to the base and having an output shaft; a turntable connected to the output shaft of the motor having a plurality of vertically oriented fixed spindles thereon, each of the spindles having a diameter less than a diameter of a centerhole in the optical discs and at least two of the spindles being assigned to receive optical discs having the two different quality control codes; and a control electrically connected to the motor and responsive to the quality control codes for operating the motor to rotate the turntable and move, to a loading position, a spindle assigned one of the two quality control codes identical to a respective one of the quality control codes associated with an optical disc being transferred to the sorting apparatus.