Method and device for distributing letter-post items

US5957296A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Licentia Patent-Verwaltungs-GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Dieter Altenburg · Allensbach, DE
• Hans Linde · Coburg, DE
• Karl Mohr · Landsberg am Lech, DE
• Uwe Neumann · Coburg, DE
• Ottmar Kechel · Arlington, US
• Josef Mok · Allensbach, DE
• Juergen Penert · Konstanz, DE
• Torsten Tanz · Hilzingen, DE
• Armin Zimmerman · Konstanz, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 27, 1997
• Grant date: Sep 28, 1999
• Expiry date: May 27, 2017

Classification

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

Abstract

A method for distributing letter-post items, for which the letter-post items are separated and the address information affixed to the items is read, provides that for letter-post items belonging to a predetermined sorting class an identification mechanism is assigned to each letter-post item during the reading of the address information in order to mark the position of the assigned letter-post item in a letter-post item stack and that each identification mechanism is assigned to an element for a predetermined sequence of distribution positions and that the assignment of the identification mechanism to the elements of the sequence for the distribution position is displayed.