Apparatus for sequencing sheets or the like in carrier route order

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EP 0 661 105 A3

(12)	EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)	Date of publication A3:
	04.06.1997 Bulletin 1997/23

(43)	Date of publication A2:
	05.07.1995 Bulletin 1995/27

(21)	Application number: 94120823.3

(22)	Date of filing: 28.12.1994

(51)	International Patent Classification (IPC)⁶: B07C 3/00

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	DE GB

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Priority:

28.12.1993 JP 334940/93

(71)	Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
	Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101 (JP)

(72)	Inventors:
	Hamada, Yasunori Tsuchiura-shi (JP) Yamashita, Taichiro Tsuchiura-shi (JP) Yoshida, Kazushi Niihari-gun, Ibaraki-ken (JP) Osaka, Tadashi, Niihariryo Niihari-gun, Ibaraki-ken (JP) Tamamoto, Junichi, Niihariryo Niihari-gun, Ibaraki-ken (JP)

(74)	Representative: Patentanwälte Beetz - Timpe - Siegfried Schmitt-Fumian - Mayr
	Steinsdorfstrasse 10 80538 München 80538 München (DE)

(54)	Apparatus for sequencing sheets or the like in carrier route order

(57) The apparatus according to the invention comprises an indication sheet interposing device (131) for interposing indication sheets (2) substituting for the second-class sheets or the like at the associated points between the first-class sheets or the like which have been sorted and sequenced in accordance with a delivery point information.
Further, the indication sheet interposing device (131) includes an indication sheet container (132) for stacking the indication sheets, an indication sheet singulation device (133) for singulating the indication sheets in the indication sheet container, an indication sheet conveyer (134) for conveying the indication sheets, and an indication sheet printing device (141) for printing on the indication sheets.

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