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AssigneeLicentia Patent-Verwaltungs-G.m.b.H.
InventorsDieter Altenburg, Hans-Juergen Linde, Karl-Heinz Mohr, Uwe Neumann, Ottmar Kechel, Josef Mok, Juergen Penert, Torsten Tanz, Armin Zimmerman
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A method for distributing letter-post items, for which the letter-post items are separated and the address information affixed to the items is read, provides that for letter-post items belonging to a predetermined sorting class an identification mechanism is assigned to each letter-post item during the reading of the address information in order to mark the position of the assigned letter-post item in a letter-post item stack and that each identification mechanism is assigned to an element for a predetermined sequence of distribution positions and that the assignment of the identification mechanism to the elements of the sequence for the distribution position is displayed.
A method for distributing letter-post items for which the items are separated and the address information affixed to the letters is read, comprising the steps of (a) for letter-post items belonging to a predetermined sorting class, allocating an identification means to each letter during the reading of the address information in order to identify the position of the allocated letter in a stack of letter-post items, (b) allocating each identification means to an element of a given sequence of distribution positions, and (c) indicating the allocation of the identification means to the elements of the sequence of distribution positions.
In a letter-post items distributing facility comprising a device for separating items, for reading the address information affixed to the items, and for presorting the items into sorting classes, the improvement comprising a feeding device for assigning numbered cards to the respective items to identify their positions in a stack of such items after the same have been presorted.
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