Patent · US Expired

Sorting installation, in particular for mail

US5848682A · kind A · utility

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8References

7Claims

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

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

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 11, 1996
Grant date	Dec 15, 1998
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 11, 2016

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB07C3/082
WIPO fieldChemical engineering
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A sorting installation comprises a plurality of conveyed item carriers, circulating on at least one conveying mechanism, for receiving, transporting and controllably delivering the conveyed items. The conveyed item carriers are fastened by pairs on circulating transport carriages of the conveying mechanism. The transport carriages are guided by rollers on two profiles aligned at a vertical distance in relation to each other and extending in the transporting direction. The transport carriages are driven by an endlessly circulating transporting, cable. The conveying mechanism according to the invention forms, with little constructional complexity, a reliable transporting system by which the conveyed items can also be transferred to sorting containers arranged on different levels.

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