Patent ID: 6192295
Filing Date: 2001-02-20
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
A method for sorting printed documents consisting of at least one sheet of paper and feeding the documents to a finishing machine, comprisingstacking the documents, which are outputted from a printing device, in an exchangeable cassette which is mounted in an input unit, in successive order as they are printed,reading an identifying label on the cassette by a first reader to produce a label identifier sensor signal and storing the sensor signal in a central controller,storing a document address of each document in a register of the controller in successive order and in association with the label identifier sensor signal as the documents are stacked in the cassette,introducing said cassette into an output unit for picking up the individual documents and associated with the finishing machine,reading said label with a second reader on the output unit and connected to the controller in the output unit, andwherein the finishing machine is controlled by the controller in response to the signal sensed by the second reader and the document addresses of the documents associated to the sensed label signaling the register.