Sorting Special Items, And Certain Methods And Apparatus (e.g., Pocket Type And Light Responsive Sorting, Etc.) For Sorting Any Items Patents (Class 209/509)
- Indicia associated with cards, file folders, or like coded items, or with sorting means therefor (including cards, per se, with edge coding) (Class 209/547)
- Operation of apparatus stopped (Class 209/548)
- Signal lamp or audible alarm (Class 209/549)
- Indicating scale (Class 209/550)
- Item counter (Class 209/551)
- Cards or sheets separated by rotatable suction drum (Class 209/553)
- Sorting cards or sheets coded by perforation (Class 209/554)
- Diverse (Class 209/555)
- Means (e.g., information storing device, timer, delaying relay, etc.) delaying actuation of separating means (Class 209/559)
- Magnetic test sensing property of item (Class 209/567)
- Electrical test sensing property of item (Class 209/571)
- Sensing radiant energy reflected, absorbed, emitted, or obstructed by item or adjunct thereof (Class 209/576)
- Sensing by applying fluid or vacuum to item (Class 209/591)
- Responsive to weight of item (Class 209/592)
- Sensing position, shape, or presence of closure or end wall on container (Class 209/597)
- Sensing contour of item having no missing parts (Class 209/598)
- Sorting items according to susceptibility to deform (e.g., malleability, hardness, compressibility, etc.), rupture, or vibrate (Class 209/599)
- Sensor contacts item (Class 209/600)
- Corn silk separator (Class 209/607)
- Sorting items according to edge coding (Class 209/608)
- Sorting cards, file folders, or like items having coded sorting holes (Class 209/613)
- Hand supported implements (Class 209/614)
- Brush, flail, or rake used other than as one of opposed pair of gauge elements to separate, or to facilitate separation of, items (Class 209/615)
- Item gripped between opposed elements (Class 209/617)
- Gauge enters hole in item (Class 209/619)
- Gauging passage between orbiting belts (Class 209/620)
- Rotating or orbiting carrier having expandable gauging passage passing items of different size at different points along carrier travel path (Class 209/621)
- Gauge with clearer other than continuous feeder (Class 209/625)
- Diverse (Class 209/629)
- Magnet attracts or repels item (Class 209/636)
- Items thrown or falling through space strike surface and only some rebound (Class 209/637)
- Items separate by following different trajectories through space (Class 209/638)
- Suction (Class 209/643)
- Fluid jet (Class 209/644)
- Sorting items by weight (Class 209/645)
- Pusher moving item on separate surface (Class 209/651)
- Gravity-type conveyor (e.g., chute, etc.) movable between different discharge positions (Class 209/655)
- Movement of items along different paths controlled by passive deflector (Class 209/656)
- Sorting items by size (Class 209/659)
- Means pierces, or enters preformed hole in, item (Class 209/688)
- Items separate by traveling in different directions while contacting drumlike body (e.g., roller, hollow cylinder, etc.) turning about longitudinal axis thereof (Class 209/689)
- Items separate by traveling in different directions while contacting same inclined surface of moving support (Class 209/691)
- Items separate by traveling in different directions while contacting same horizontal surface of moving support (Class 209/695)
- Items separate by traveling in different directions while contacting same inclined surface of static support (Class 209/696)
- Means movable between horizontal item-supporting position and gravity discharge position (Class 209/698)
- Sorting items according to susceptibility to deform (e.g., malleability, hardness, compressibility, etc.), rupture, or vibrate (Class 209/699)
- Sorting items according to roughness or adhesiveness (Class 209/700)
- Item turned while traveling (Class 209/701)
- Manual sorting (Class 209/702)
- Specific compartment of receptacle brought into alignment with feed means by operator (Class 209/706)
- Items separated by tipping, rolling, or sliding off support under force of gravity (Class 209/707)