Sorting device for flat, letter-like postal items

US6276509A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Rudolf Schuster · Heimstetten, DE
• Fridtjof Reinerth · Fürstenfeldbruck, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 28, 2000
• Grant date: Aug 21, 2001
• Expiry date: Jun 28, 2020

Classification

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

Abstract

A sorting device is provided with output stations for containers along a sorting path, which containers accept the sorted unit load. A conveying path extends next to the container row, on which conveying path the empty containers are supplied and the full containers are transported off. A transfer device can be moved via the conveying path and is provided with a telescopic boom for the automatic container change between the output stations and the conveying path.