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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 1994
Filed:
Aug. 09, 1991
Thomas F Grapes, Columbia, MD (US);
James A Rew, Millersville, MD (US);
Charles M Miller, Seven Valleys, PA (US);
John J Buckley, Jr, Hanover, MD (US);
Stanley K Wakamiya, Ellicott City, MD (US);
David J Tilles, Baltimore, MD (US);
William L DeHaven, Millersville, MD (US);
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
A transport/stacker module provides for a vertical stacking of mail bins. Carriers traveling in a transport path have openable and closable doors at both ends, and a frame of the transport/stacker module is provided with cam actuators to open the doors after the carriers pass turnaround areas and close the doors before the carriers enter the turnaround areas. A rake mechanism disposed above each bin is provided with a snubber which engages a mail piece prior to rake tines of the rake mechanism.