Sorting apparatus for mail and the like

US5718321A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Rudolf Brugger · Puchheim, DE
• Rudolf Schuster · Heimstetten, DE
• Adolf Hopler · Hersbruck, DE
• Wilfried Lange · Altentreptow, DE
• Volkmar Schulz · Schwarzenbruck, DE
• Werner von Hacht · Uttenreuth, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 16, 1996
• Grant date: Feb 17, 1998
• Expiry date: Jan 16, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S209/90
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The sorting apparatus includes a plurality of conveyable-article carriers (FT) which circulate on at least one conveying device (FE) and are intended for receiving, for transporting and for discharging, in a controllable manner, the conveyable articles to sorting containers (SB), PA1 the conveyable-article carriers (FT) circulating, via at least one vertical deflection of the conveying device (FE), in at least two planes (E1, E2), and PA1 the sorting containers (SB) being provided in at least two levels (ET1, ET2) assigned to the planes (E1, E2) of the conveying device (FE). The guidance of the conveying device (FE) in at least two planes (E1, E2), and the provision of sorting containers (SB) in at least two levels (ET1, ET2) assigned to said planes (E1, E2) makes it possible, with the same surface area on which to set up the sorting apparatus, for the number of sorting containers (SB) available for sorting purposes to be doubled or multiplied.