Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Peter Bretschneider

Rudolf Schuster

Holger Schererz

Objects such as flat items of mail are processed. In a registration sorting run, the objects pass through a registration sorting system and are moved thereafter into a temporary storage device. For each object, a response message is generated and transmitted to a message address. At each predetermined execution time, an execution pass is performed in which the objects are taken from the temporary storage device and passed through an execution sorting system. If a response message which specifies an action is present for the object, the object is moved to a workstation where the specified action is carried out. Otherwise, the object is moved back into the temporary storage device. In a preferably subsequent storage period, an object is taken from the temporary storage device, and moved to a workstation, when a response message is present for this object.

Method and device for processing objects with a temporary storage device and sorting system

A sorting arrangement for flat items of mail, has a plurality of containers ( ) which circulate in a conveying loop with at least two semicircular conveying sections ( ) and are intended for laterally receiving, for transporting and for discharging in a controllable manner in each case one item of mail standing on a narrow side, and a plurality of depositing receptacles ( ) which are arranged along the conveying arrangement, beneath the containers ( ), and are open at the top. The lateral openings of the containers ( ), for loading purposes, are located in the interior of the conveying loop, and the transporting element ( ) of the material infeed is arranged within the conveying loop, and transports the items of mail into the lateral openings of the containers ( ) in a horizontally aligned semicircular conveying section.

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Birkenwerder, Germany

Peter Bretschneider