Method and device for sorting postal items
AssigneeDeutsche Post AG
InventorsChristoph Fethke, Jürgen Raβkopf, Robert Egg, Joachim Ziegeler
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Abstract
A method and device for sorting postal items according to formats, wherein postal items having at least two formats are fed by first conveyor to a sorting location; postal items of a first format are removed from the first conveyor in the area of the sorting location at a number of sorting stations arranged one behind the other in a direction of conveyance of the first conveyor, and are fed to a second conveyor, which, in the area of the sorting location, extends laterally next to the first conveyor, and; the postal items with other formats remain on the first conveyor.
Claims18
A method for sorting mailpieces according to formats, comprising:
- feeding mailpieces having at least two formats by a first conveyor to a sorting line, a first format being a large format in which dimensions of the mailpieces exceed pre-specified values,
- accumulating the mailpieces in an area of the sorting line in front of an end section of the first conveyor located in a downstream end area of the sorting line,
- removing mailpieces having the first format from the first conveyor in the area of the sorting line at several sorting stations arranged one after the other in a conveying direction of the first conveyor, and feeding mailpieces to a second conveyor that runs in the area of the sorting line laterally next to the first conveyor, and
- feeding the mailpieces having other formats that remain on the first conveyor to a third conveyor that is arranged below the second conveyor.
A device for sorting mailpieces according to formats, comprising:
- a first conveyor for feeding mailpieces of all formats to a sorting line,
- the first conveyor comprising an end section in a downstream end area in front of which the mailpieces are accumulated,
- whereby the sorting line comprises a plurality of sorting stations arranged one after the other on a first side of the first conveyor along the first conveyor in a conveying direction thereof,
- a second conveyor for receiving mailpieces having a first format, said second conveyor being arranged laterally on a second side of the first conveyor, opposite from the first side and running in the area of the sorting line laterally next to the first conveyor, and
- a third conveyor, for receiving mailpieces having formats other than the first format, that is arranged below the second conveyor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.