PURPOSE: To enhance the selecting/receiving operation efficiency for flexible disks the quality of which is sorted by a collective examination apparatus.
CONSTITUTION: A flexible disk stacker mechanism comprises four timing belts 65 for making vertical circulating movements through drive of driving mechanisms 66 controlled by a control circuit 67, and supporting pawls 68 mounted on each timing belt at suitable intervals, each supporting a corresponding one corner of the dropped flexible disk, and stacking the flexible disks for each prescribed number thereof, the supporting pawls being disposed at the position where the flexible disks 4 are allowed to drop. Accordingly, no need exists to interrupt the selecting/receiving operation, and the flexible disks 4 are stacked for each prescribed number thereof. Thus, the selecting, receiving, and processing time length is shortened in corresponding relation to the collective examination apparatus whose examining capability is increased.
SHIRAISHI TOSHIMITSU