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US 12,703,598 B2Granted
Automated traying of finished mail
AssigneeDMT Solutions Global Corporation
InventorsJohn Robert Masotta, Anthony E. Yap, Matthew O. Dickie, Boris Rozenfeld, Eddy Edel, Xavier A. Padros
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Abstract
The present invention provides automated systems and methods of loading finished mail within the trays for subsequent processing. The systems and methods of the present invention result in economic and operational efficiency to increase the process of loading the mail in the trays.
Claims42
A system for organizing finished mail, the system comprising:
- a tray dispensing assembly comprising a plurality of trays;
- a robotic arm designed to pick up a tray from the plurality of trays and place the tray on a tray loading station;
- a gripper operably linked to the robotic arm and configured to pick up a stack of vertically oriented finished mail from a mail stacking module and place said stack of finished mail within the tray in the tray loading station;
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- a holding assembly in the tray loading station and configured to maintain one or more stacks of finished mail in a vertical orientation within the tray;
- wherein the mail stacking module comprises a motorized paddle to maintain the finished mail in a vertical orientation.
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