.~ By distributing items onto vertically tiered conveyor/receiver
DEFINITION
Classification: 198/435
(under subclass 434) Apparatus wherein the articles of the succession that are moved by one conveyor are apportioned among a plurality of second conveyors, which second conveyors are arranged to be one above another, and further convey, or temporarily retain and then convey, the apportioned articles.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
209, Classifying, Separating, and Assorting Solids,
509+, for a machine wherein sheets are assorted into plural receivers in accordance with characteristics of the respective sheets.
270, Sheet-Material Associating and see Search Class note below to Class 271.
271, Sheet Feeding or Delivering,
306+, wherein the sheets to be delivered comprise a sequence of two or more sheets that are being conveyed one after the other(s) toward two more receivers, the device being provided with means for diverting a first of said sheets into a first receiver a second of said sheets into a second receiver, the sequence continuing until a sheet is diverted into the last receiver, whereupon the next sheet of the sequence is diverted into said first receiver and the operation is repeated. A machine for Class 271, subclasses 306+, differs from a machine for Class 270, subclasses 58.01+, in that Class 271, subclasses 306+, provides for the stacking into plural receivers of sheets from a single or an undetermined source, whereas Class 270, subclasses 58.01+, provides for the stacking into plural receivers of sheets from a plurality of source stacks, the sheets of which are to be collated into a plurality of finished stacks. See the Search Class notes in the class definition of Class 271 for further discussion. In this subclass will also be found a machine which is programmed so that one or more of the receivers is "skipped" to form special stacks.
