Postal sorting machine with a feed inlet having a robotized arm and a sloping flat conveyor

A postal sorting machine comprising a sorting conveyor suitable for transporting postal articles in series past sorting outlets and a postal article feed unit having a magazine for storing postal articles to be sorted and a separator that is suitable for injecting the postal articles to be sorted one-by-one from the magazine onto the sorting conveyor while placing them in series at constant pitch, said postal sorting machine being characterized in that the separator has a robotized arm provided with a pneumatic pickup that is steerable in three-dimensional space, a vision sensor suitable for observing a pile of postal articles stored loosely in the magazine to produce image data including a certain postal article to be separated from the pile of loose postal articles, and a monitoring and control unit that, on the basis of said image data produced by the vision sensor, is suitable for identifying a non-covered pickup face of said certain postal article so that said postal article can be gripped by the pickup, said monitoring and control unit also being arranged to control the robotized arm in such a manner as to come and pick up said certain postal article via said postal article pickup face and put said postal article onto the sorting conveyor, in that a flat conveying segment is organized to slope sideways, with a lower side edge and an upper side edge that is higher than the lower side edge, which is designed as a jogging edge, and in that the robotized arm is designed to put each postal article, separated from the pile of loose postal articles, individually onto the sideways-sloping flat conveying segment in such a manner that said article comes, by gravity, to be jogged against the lower edge of the conveyor.