Method for automatic sorting

Claim 1

A PROCESS FOR AUTOMATIC CONTROL OF NEWSPAPER AND OTHER PRINTED MATTER CHARACTERIXED BY CONSTANTLY DETECTING THE NUMBER OF COPIES OF THE NEWSPAPER OR OTHER PRINTED MATTER BEING CONTINUOUSLY FED OUT FROM A ROTARY OR OTHER PRINTING MACHINE BY WAY OF THE SHADOW OR DIFFERERENCE IN DARKNESS FORMED BETWEEN THE FOLDED EDGE OF EACH SHEET OF SAID NEWSPAPER OR OTHER PRINTED MATTER AND THE LEADING EDGE OF THE IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING SHEET, GUIDING THE SHEETS IN A CONTINUOUS FLOW ON A SINGLE PLANE WHICH MAY BE EITHER HORIZONTAL OR MILDLY INCLINED, SAID SHEETS REMAINING IN THE SAME PARTIALLY OVERLAPPED POSITION AS THEY ARE INITIALLY PLACED ON SAID PLANE, CAUSING MEMORY MEANS TO MEMPRIZE A PROGRAMMED CONTROL INFORMATION CONTAINING SUCH SORTING ITEMS AS THE DESTINATIONS AND NUMBER OF COPIES OF THE NEWSPAPER OR OTHER PRINTED MATTER TO BE SHIPPED AND OTHER INFORMATION, FEEDING THE MEMORIZED INFORMATION TO DIRECTION MEANS, CONTROLLING THE VALUES DETECTED AS ABOVE OF THE NEWSPAPER OR OTHER PRINTED MATTER BY CONTROL MEANS BASED ON THE DIRECTIONS PROVIDED BY SAID DIRECTION MEANS, SORTING THE FLOW OF SAID SHEETS BASED ON SAID CONTROL SO AS TO MAKE BUNDLES OF SAID NEWSPAPER OR OTHER PRINTED MATTER, CONTROLLING AND SORTING AND DELIVERY OPERATIONS OF A SORTING AN DELIVERY CARRYING SYSTEM BY MEANS OF SAID CONTROL MEANS, THEREBY ALLOWING EACH OF THE BUNDLES TO SELECT A PREDETERMINED ONE OF THE SHIPPING JUNCTIONS PROVIDED ON SAID DELIVERY CARRIER SYSTEM, AND LOADING THE BUNDLES FROM SAID SHIPPING JUNCTIONS INTO TRUCKS OR OTHER VEHICLES PARKED ALONGSIDE SAID JUNCTIONS, EACH OF SAID TRUCKS OR OTHER VEHICLES BEING DESTINED TO CARRY THE BUNDLES SORTED OUT AS ABOVE.