Process for sorting mailings

US6239397A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Walter Rosenbaum · Bethesda, US
• Ottmar Kechel · Arlington, US
• Boris Lohmann · Bremen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 20, 1999
• Grant date: May 29, 2001
• Expiry date: Aug 20, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B07C3/00
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A process of the type disclosed according to DE 196 50 875 for sorting mailings having different properties by using sorting machines not suitable for all properties of the mailings. The unsuitable mailings receive an identification (ID) marking and their sensed distribution information is stored under this ID marking. As representing each non-processible mailing, a processible substitute is added to the stack of substitutes being assigned one of the non-processible mailings, in each case by means of an ID marking. Then, the processible mailings and the substitutes are sorted according to the associated distribution information. After sorting, the non-processible mailings are brought into a sequence appropriate for sorting on the basis of the ID markings located on them and the associated substitutes.