Method for processing flat deliveries in delivery containers

US7227094B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Dietmar Oexle · Singen, DE
• Rolf-Peter Skrdlant · Helmstedt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 26, 2003
• Grant date: Jun 5, 2007
• Expiry date: Jun 17, 2024

Classification

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

Abstract

A method for processing a batch of mail wherein a mail sorting machine sorts the batch of mail to a plurality of sorting bins according to a predetermined sorting plan includes steps of reading an identification code from an empty mail tray, loading the empty tray in a buffer storage unit associated with one of the sorting bins, activating a switch associated with the buffer storage unit to confirm that the mail tray is positioned in the buffer, assigning the tray identification code to a destination associated with the sorting bin in the sorting plan, and then sorting mail to the sorting bin and transferring sorted mail from the sorting bin into the mail tray.