Patent ID: 6019364
Filing Date: 2000-02-01
Classification: B07C,B65H

Abstract:
A document transporting system conveying documents along a transport path in a first direction from a document infeed station to a document processing station, certain of such documents being advanced along the transport path from the infeed station with an improper facing orientation, comprising:a plurality of document re-orienting devices disposed adjacent the transport path between the infeed station and the document processing station;each of said document re-orienting devices disposed adjacent the transport path between the infeed station and the document processing station;each of said document re-orienting devices adapted to receive an improperly oriented document, to reverse the orientation of the previously improperly oriented document, and to transport the correctly oriented document back onto the document transport path;control means operatively associated with each of the plurality of document re-orienting devices for delivering improperly oriented documents into a pre-selected empty one of the plurality of document re-orienting devices, and for transporting selected correctly oriented documents onto the transport path when a gap is present between documents being transported along the document transport path, wherein said gap is generated from one of said plurality of document re-orienting devices.