Sorting installation and sorting method for jointly sorting different kinds of articles

US9108224B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Holger Schererz · Rehfelde, DE
• Rolf-Peter Skrdlant · Helmstedt, DE
• Frank Voss · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 13, 2012
• Grant date: Aug 18, 2015
• Expiry date: Sep 13, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B07C1/14
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A sorting installation and a sorting method jointly sort two kinds of flat mail items. For each article to be sorted, a value that a prescribed sorting feature assumes for the article is measured. The article is transported by a first transport device to a separating filter. An article of the first article kind is redirected in a first outward-transfer device. On the basis of the ascertained sorting feature value, one sorting output from a first set of sorting outputs is selected. The article is transferred outward to the selected sorting output from the first sorting output set. An article of the second article kind is redirected to a second transport device and transported to a second outward-transfer device. On the basis of the ascertained sorting feature value, one sorting output from a second set of sorting outputs is selected.