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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 1994
Filed:
Apr. 08, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jean-Raoul Dian, Paris, FR;
Michel Gand, Champlan, FR;
Assignee:
Compagnie Generale d'Automatisme CGA-HBS, Bretigny sur Orge, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
209584 ; 209900 ; 198366 ; 271-31 ;
Abstract
The present invents relates to a sorting installation for articles having different destinations, especially letters. The installation comprises n sorting machines connected to a common conveyor. Each machine comprises pigeonholes associated with p.sub.i of the N possible destinations. The articles introduced at the input of the machine and not corresponding to one of the p.sub.i destinations are directed towards the storage regions, each region corresponding to the destinations associated with the other n-1 sorting machines to which the articles are periodically transferred.