Appeal No. 96-2099
Application 08/128,976
allowed. We reverse.
The appellant’s invention pertains to a method of automat-
ically sorting sheets of material having indicia thereon. Claim
26 defines the invention in the following manner:
26. The method of automatically sorting sheets of material
having indicia thereon comprising the steps of:
Storing sheets of said material in a storage area;
Removing sheets one at a time from said storage area;
Depositing each said sheet after its removal on a
conveyor belt having a surface divided into a plurality
of pocket-like areas by members extending outwardly
from said surface at a loading station disposed remote
from said storage area;
Reading each said sheet to ascertain information
therefrom;
Identifying from such information a predetermined
address of a receiving bin into which such sheet is to
be placed;
Tracking the position of said sheet on said belt by
counting each said outwardly extending member to
determine when said sheet arrives at said address of
said receiving bin; and
Activating an air jet to propel the sheet from said
belt into said receiving bin.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Bush 2,717,086 Sep. 06, 1955
Anschutz 3,928,184 Dec. 23, 1975
Teegarden et al. (Teegarden) 5,207,331 May 04, 1993
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