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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 1991
Filed:
Dec. 12, 1989
Melvin Kerstein, Lincolnwood, IL (US);
Bell & Howell Co., Skokie, IL (US);
Abstract
A basket structure for supporting mail trays between varying elevations relative to a workplace supporting planar floor in cooperation with a mail sorting machine having a plurality of sorting bins disposed laterally in spaced relation along the horizontal axis of the sorting machine at a predetermined elevation. The basket structure is moveable between a storage position at a first lower elevation and an access position at a second higher elevation horizontally adjacent to the predetermined elevation of the bins whereby the mail in the bins can be readily moved by an operator between at least one of the bins to an adjacent at least one of the mail trays that is substantially horizontally aligned with the at least one bin.