Sorting facility for flat mail items

US6321913A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Burghard Rebel · Konstanz, DE
• Bertram Wanner · Meersburg, DE
• Karsten Knipper
• Raymond Brady · Pullach, DE
• Christoph Maurer · Salzburg, AT
• Rudolf Schuster · Heimstetten, DE
• Adolf Hoepler · Hersbruck, DE
• Christian Kassel · Riemerling, DE
• Matthias Stroessner · Oberhaching, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 13, 2000
• Grant date: Nov 27, 2001
• Expiry date: Sep 13, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B07C1/02
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A conveyor belt (1) leading to a sorting device (2) comprises two superimposed functional sections (3, 12), which are connected to each other via deflected intermediate sections. As a result, the structural length of the conveyor belt (1) is reduced.