B07C 1/16
Sorting according to thickness or stiffness
B07C1/16 (Sorting according to thickness or stiffness) appears on 28 US grants and 15 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B07C- Granted patents
- 28
- Published applications
- 15
- Assignees
- 20
- Inventors
- 46
- Latest grant
- 18 Feb 2020
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Apparatus for measuring the stiffness of mailpieces18 Feb 2020US 10,562,073 B2Solystic
- Installation for sorting articles with a sorting conveyor having pivotally mounted flaps7 Jan 2020US 10,525,509 B2Solystic
- System for automatically sorting mailpostal matter and method thereof8 Sep 2015US 9,126,234 B2Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
- Sorting apparatus and control method for sorting apparatus18 Aug 2015US 9,108,223 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Document sort machine having dual feeders17 Jun 2014US 8,754,345 B2National Presort, Inc.
- Apparatus for measuring the stiffness of mailpieces6 Jun 2019US 2019/0168264 A1Solystic
- Installation for sorting articles with a sorting conveyor having pivotally mounted flaps20 Sep 2018US 2018/0264521 A1Solystic
- System for automatically sorting mailpostal matter and method thereof20 Mar 2014US 2014/0081446 A1Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
- Document Sort Machine Having Dual Feeders21 Mar 2013US 2013/0071221 A1National Presort, Inc.
- Paper sheet discriminating apparatus, paper sheet processing apparatus, and paper sheet discriminating method3 Sep 2009US 2009/0218259 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and system for presorting mail based on mail piece thickness50US 6,135,292 APitney Bowes Inc. · 2000
- Apparatus and method for checking the contents of envelopes and sorting documents by thickness45US 4,576,287 AOmation Corporation · 1986
- Apparatus and method for checking an envelope for contents28US 5,727,692 AStielow GmbH · 1998
- Apparatus for assessing the stiffness of a sheet27US 5,182,722 ANCR Corporation · 1993
- Device for separating postal items according to thickness classes25US 7,111,742 B1Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · 2006