Solystic

Lionel Faivre

Bruno Cartal

Pierre Campagnolle

Damien Hugues

Eric Moullard

Patrick Tetaz

Frederic Badier

Damien Hughes

David Gutter

Frédéric Badier

A device () is provided for the mechanical handling of a flexible bag () placed in a holder (), the bag having a mouth with at least one flap () that can close or open the mouth of the bag. The device comprises a brush wheel () that is mounted in rotation about a shaft (), the brush wheel comprising fins () each consisting of a curved flexible portion () which extends from the shaft, and a straight end portion () which extends in continuation of the curved portion, the set of straight portions substantially forming a rim, and the brush wheel being arranged in such a way that, when it is rotated close to the mouth of the bag, centrifugal force straightens the curved portions, thus increasing the radius of the rim in order to allow the straight portions to rub against the flap of the bag.

Device for the mechanical handling of a flexible bag placed in a holder, and logistical parcel sorting installation comprising such a device

A method of sorting mailpieces amongst N logical sorting destinations with a sorting machine including a mailpiece conveyor that serves M sorting outlets, each of which is provided with a removable mailpiece storage tray that is handled by a tray conveyor, where M is less than N, consists in detecting that a current mailpiece to be sorted has a certain logical destination that is said to be 'overbooked' and that is not associated with a sorting outlet, and in dynamically allocating to said overbooked logical destination a certain sorting outlet of the machine that is occupied by another logical destination. In said certain sorting outlet, a tray change is made and the tray extracted from said certain sorting outlet is put on standby on a loop of the tray conveyor.

Method of sorting mailpieces by using a process for dynamically allocating sorting outlets

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