Small document set recirculative copying

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A method and apparatus of more efficiently copying sets of document sheets having a small number of document sheets per set on a copier with a recirculating document handler, onto plural collated copy sheet sets with plural copying recirculations of all the document sheets in the recirculating document handler by automatically commonly recirculating for copying in the same recirculating document handler a plurality of different small document sets, and automatically separating the plural copy sheets made therefrom into separate collated sub-sets each copy sub-set corresponding to, one of the different small document sets and wherein the number of the sub-, sets is greater than the plural …