Process and machine for merging ordered batches of objects, in particular batches of mail items
US6793063B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 10, 2002 |
| Grant date | Sep 21, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 5, 2022 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB07C3/02
- WIPO fieldChemical engineering
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
The machine for merging batches of objects, in particular batches (L1, L2) of mail items (A) previously ordered according to their order of distribution in the mailman's round, so as to constitute a single batch of mail items which is ordered according to the mailman's round comprises: a) destacking units (D1, D2), b) linked to the exit of each destacking unit, one or more dynamic-storage magazines (M11-M22) in each of which the items are moved in series around a storage loop, and interposed between each destacking unit and a dynamic-storage magazine, a device (DL1, DL2) for reading a classifying cue on each destacked object; c) a conveyor (CS) in which the mail items are moved in series and to which the dynamic-storage magazines are linked in parallel, d) a control/command unit (U) for the destacking units and for the dynamic-storage magazines which, on the basis of the classifying cues read by the reading devices, controls the transferring of the mail items from the destacking units to the dynamic-storage magazines and then from the dynamic-storage magazines to the conveyor.
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