Combined document sorter, printer and accounting machine system

Claim 1

AN ACCOUNTING AND DOCUMENT SORTING APPARATUS COMPRISING COMPUTING MECHANISM INCLUDING AMOUNT DIFFERENTIAL MECHANISM, A PLURALITY OF REGISTERS, MEANS TO ENGAGE EACH OF SAID REGISTERS WITH SAID AMOUNT DIFFERENTIAL MECHANISM FOR OPERATION THEREBY, REGISTER SELECTING MEANS TO CONTROL SAID REGISTER ENGAGING MECHANISM TO SELECT REGISTERS FOR ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID AMOUNT DIFFERENTIAL MECHANISM, MANIPULATIVE MEANS TO CONTROL SAID REGISTER SELECTING MEANS, A FIRST CYCLICALLY OPERABLE DRIVE MEANS TO OPERATE SAID AMOUNT DIFFERENTIAL MECHANISM AND SAID REGISTER ENGAGING MEANS IN A CYCLE OF OPERATION; A MULTIPLE TAPE PRINTER APPARATUS COMPRISING DIFFERENTIAL INDEXING MEANS, A PLURALITY OF TAPE PRINTERS EACH HAVING A SERIES OF PRINTING TYPE MEMBERS INDEXABLE BY SAID DIFFERENTIAL INDEXING MEANS, RECORD TAPE SUPPLY MEANS AND MEANS TO EFFECT PRINTING COMPRESSION OF THE INDEXED TYPES ON THE RECORD TAPE, MEANS CONTROLLED BY SAID AMOUNT DIFFERENTIAL MECHANISM TO CONTROL THE DIFFERENTIAL INDEXING OPERATION OF SAID DIFFERENTIAL INDEXING MEANS, MEANS CONTROLLED BY SAID MANIPULATIVE MEANS TO CONDITION FOR OPERATION THE PRINTTING IMPRESSION MEANS OF A SELECTED ONE OF SAID PRINTERS CORRESPONDING TO THE SELECTED REGISTER, AND A SECOND CYCLICALLY OPERABLE DRIVE MEANS TO OPERABLE SAID DIFFERENTIAL INDEXING MEANS AND THE PRINTING IMPRESSION MEANS OF SAID SELECTED PRINTER IN A CYCLE OF OPERATION; MEANS CONTROLLED BY SAID FIRST DRIVE MEANS IN THE COURSE OF A CYCLE OF OPERATION THEREOF TO INITIATE A CYCLE OF OPERATION OF SAID SECOND DRIVE MEANS, AND DOCUMENT SORTING APPARATUS HAVING A PLURALITY OF SORTED DOCUMENT BINS; AN INSERTED DOCUMENT RECEIVER, MEANS FOR CONVEYING AN INSERTED DOCUMENT FROM SAID RECEIVER TO ANY OF SAID BINS, AND MEANS CONTROLLED BY SAID MANIPULATIVE MEANS TO DIRECT THE DOCUMENT CONVEYED FROM SAID RECEIVER INTO A SELECTED ONE OF SAID BINS CORRESPONDING TO THE SELECTED REGISTER AND OPERATED TAPE PRINTER.