EP 1409161 A1 20040421 - METHOD FOR SORTING POSTAL ARTICLES ON AUTOMATIC SORTING DEVICES
Title (en)
METHOD FOR SORTING POSTAL ARTICLES ON AUTOMATIC SORTING DEVICES
Title (de)
VERFAHREN ZUM SORTIEREN VON SENDUNGEN AUF AUTOMATISCHEN SORTIEREINRICHTUNGEN
Title (fr)
PROCEDE POUR TRIER DES ENVOIS SUR DES DISPOSITIFS DE TRI AUTOMATIQUES
Publication
Application
Priority
- DE 0202243 W 20020620
- DE 10131031 A 20010629
Abstract (en)
[origin: WO03004178A1] The invention relates to a method for sorting postal articles on automatic sorting devices. According to the invention, the postal articles are read in one or several sorting devices and are pre-sorted in sorting terminal stations according to distributing areas. The pre-sorted postal articles are then conveyed to the sorting devices assigned to the respective distributing areas and are finely sorted based on the applied barcode that indicates the online-read or offline-read address. In order to provide an additional time for offline video encoding before the fine sorting, the postal articles, during the pre-sorting for each distributing area, are sorted in terminal stations for already completely read postal articles and in terminal stations for incompletely read postal articles. This permits the completely read postal articles to be immediately subjected to a fine sorting and enables this time to be used for offline video encoding the incompletely read postal articles.
IPC 1-7
IPC 8 full level
B07C 3/14 (2006.01); B07C 3/00 (2006.01); B07C 3/18 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP US)
B07C 3/00 (2013.01 - EP US); B07C 3/18 (2013.01 - EP US); Y10S 209/90 (2013.01 - EP US)
Citation (search report)
See references of WO 03004178A1
Designated contracting state (EPC)
AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE TR
DOCDB simple family (publication)
WO 03004178 A1 20030116; DE 50213031 D1 20090102; EP 1409161 A1 20040421; EP 1409161 B1 20081119; JP 2004532735 A 20041028; US 2004129610 A1 20040708; US 6813541 B2 20041102
DOCDB simple family (application)
DE 0202243 W 20020620; DE 50213031 T 20020620; EP 02742811 A 20020620; JP 2003510182 A 20020620; US 73797003 A 20031218