EP 1592523 A1 20051109 - SORTING DEVICE FOR FLAT MAIL ITEMS
Title (en)
SORTING DEVICE FOR FLAT MAIL ITEMS
Title (de)
SORTIEREINRICHTUNG FÜR FLACHE SENDUNGEN
Title (fr)
DISPOSITIF DE TRIAGE POUR ENVOIS PLATS
Publication
Application
Priority
- EP 2004000839 W 20040130
- DE 10305847 A 20030212
Abstract (en)
[origin: WO2004071680A1] The invention relates to a sorting device which comprises a mail item buffer storage (1) having storage pouches (10), circulating in a conveying loop and moving past charge stations (7). Below straight handover sections of said conveying loops, circulating mail item containers (12), displaced in a conveying path and open to the top, are provided as the sorting terminal points. The mail items (11) are charged into the mail item containers (12) according to their read-out target addresses by controlled opening of the respective storage pouch (10) at that time at which the respective pouch arrives in the respective position above the associated mail item container (12). The conveying speeds of the mail item buffer storages (1) and of the mail item containers (12) and the lengths of the handover sections of the mail item buffer storage (1) located above the conveying path for the mail item containers (12) are defined in such a manner that during the period in which a mail item pouch (10) passes a handover section of a mail item buffer storage (1) every mail item container (12) has passed below said mail item pouch (10).
IPC 1-7
IPC 8 full level
B07C 3/08 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP US)
B07C 3/082 (2013.01 - EP US); B65H 2301/314 (2013.01 - EP US); Y10S 209/90 (2013.01 - EP); Y10S 209/912 (2013.01 - EP)
Citation (search report)
See references of WO 2004071680A1
Designated contracting state (EPC)
BE DE FR GB IT
DOCDB simple family (publication)
WO 2004071680 A1 20040826; CN 100464875 C 20090304; CN 1774306 A 20060517; DE 10305847 B3 20040819; DE 502004003128 D1 20070419; EP 1592523 A1 20051109; EP 1592523 B1 20070307; JP 2006517464 A 20060727; JP 4171041 B2 20081022; US 2006102529 A1 20060518; US 7397010 B2 20080708
DOCDB simple family (application)
EP 2004000839 W 20040130; CN 200480009802 A 20040130; DE 10305847 A 20030212; DE 502004003128 T 20040130; EP 04706620 A 20040130; JP 2006500020 A 20040130; US 54537705 A 20050812