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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2002
Peter Bretschneider, Birkenwerder, DE;
Rudolf Schuster, Kirchheim, DE;
Siemens AG, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A sorting arrangement for flat items of mail, has a plurality of containers ( ) which circulate in a conveying loop with at least two semicircular conveying sections ( ) and are intended for laterally receiving, for transporting and for discharging in a controllable manner in each case one item of mail standing on a narrow side, and a plurality of depositing receptacles ( ) which are arranged along the conveying arrangement, beneath the containers ( ), and are open at the top. The lateral openings of the containers ( ), for loading purposes, are located in the interior of the conveying loop, and the transporting element ( ) of the material infeed is arranged within the conveying loop, and transports the items of mail into the lateral openings of the containers ( ) in a horizontally aligned semicircular conveying section.