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Portable mail sorting and consolodating method and machine

US8669486B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateAug 5, 2009
Grant dateMar 11, 2014
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Expiry dateOct 22, 2029

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB07C7/005
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A device for sorting out individual address mail from a presorted route order mail stack including a device with a mail receiving receptacle, a conveyor for transferring mail through the machine, a reader and control for reading the bar code and mail address, and a mail delivery receptacle. When mail is added to the mail receiving receptacle the machine conveys only the mail for one address to the mail delivery receptacle and then stops until the mail delivery receptacle is clear. The machine uses the mail bar code and displays the address to the mail carrier for confirmation of the matching addresses for all of the mail to be delivered.

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