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Portable mail sorting and consolodating method and machine

US8975549B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateOct 11, 2013
Grant dateMar 10, 2015
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Expiry dateOct 11, 2033

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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