Sorting machine for record or data carriers

Claim 1

SORTING MACHINE FOR DATA MEDIA PROVIDED WITH PUNCHED MARKINGS, HAVING A SENSING DEVICE WHICH CAN BE ADJUSTED TO A DESIRED SORTING COLUMN, AND UNDER THE MONITORING OF WHICH THE DATA MEDIA ARE INTRODUCED INTO THE SORTING BIN CORRESPONDING TO THE MARKING SENSED, WHEREIN THE RECORDING MEDIA ARE MADE IN THE FORM OF PUNCHED TAPE CARDS, WHICH ARE RELATIVELY NARROW WITH RESPECT TO THEIR LENGTH, AND MAY BE OF DIFFERENT TAPE LENGTHS WHEREBY THE LONGEST TAPE LENGTH MAY BE A MULIPLE OF THE SHORTEST TAPE LENGTH, COMPRISING AN INCLINED MAGAZINE IN WHICH THE STACKED CARDS LIE, IRRESPECTIVE OF LENGTH WITH ONE CORRESPONDING NARROW SIDE OF EACH CARD IN ALIGNMENT, MEANS FOR DRAWING EACH CARD THEREFROM WITH SUCH NARROW SIDE LEADING FROM THE STACK OF CARDS, CARD CONVEYING MEANS OPERATIVE TO CONDUCT SUCH CARDS TO DELIVERY BINS, SAID CONVEYING MEANS INCLUDING A GENERALLY S-SHAPED PORTION IN WHICH THE CARDS ARE RECEIVED FROM THE MAGAZINE, REVERSELY REROUTED THROUGH AN ANGLE WHICH IS LESS THAN 180* BY SUBSTANTIALLY THE ANGLE OF INCLINATION OF SAID MAGAZINE, AND THEN REVERSELY REROUTED THROUGH AN ANGLE OF SUBSTANTIALLY 180*, SAID DELIVERY BINS HAVING A WIDTH TO ACCOMMODATE THE NARROW DIMENSION OF THE CARDS AND BEING ARRANGED TO SUPPORT THE PUNCHED TAPE CARDS IS STACKED ARRANGEMENT, EVEN IN CASE OF DIFFERENT TAPE LENGTH, WITH SUCH NARROW EDGES, WHICH WERE LEADING DURING THE WITHDRAWAL, ABOVE EACH OTHER, THE BINS BEING SO ARRANGED THAT SAID NARROW EDGES LIE IN A COMMON PLANE WITH RESPECT TO EACH OTHER BOTH IN EACH INDIVIDUAL BIN AND ALSO IN THE DIFFERENT BINS.