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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 1985
Filed:
May. 05, 1982
Abstract
An apparatus for sorting postal matter or mail to a plurality of stacking bins arranged in a row in accordance with the result of optically scanning and reading ZIP codes and taking out the mail from the stacking bins to a conveyance section arranged along the row of stacking bins whenever a predetermined amount of mail is stacked in a stacking bin. When the sorting operation has come to an end, the mail sorting apparatus detects if there exists any mail on the conveyance section, and takes out the mail from the stacking bins which are opposite to the empty region on the conveyance section downstream the position where mail is on the conveyance path. After the conveyance section moves and there is an empty region opposite to the stacking bin, it then takes out the mail from the stacking bin which was opposite to the position where there was mail. This method is repeated until all mail is removed from the stacking bins.