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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2018
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Peter Berdelle-Hilge, Constance, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A delivery point sorting device with two feeders for receiving and forwarding mail in streams, where a diverging apparatus divert module is configured to process the mail from the two feeders and a merge module converges the streams of mail from the two feeders and distributes the mail to respective endpoints. Sorting endpoints are used for loading the mail received from this converging apparatus. A method where items of mail are sorted through sorting passes including a first, second, and third sorting pass. Sorting passes are; processing mail through two feeders by receiving the mail by the feeders and forwarding the mail articles in streams of mail, converging the streams of mail from the feeders to a conveyor apparatus, loading the mail at sorting endpoints by the conveyor apparatus, and sequentially passing the mail through the first, second, and third sorting pass.