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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2006
François Madar, Bourg les Valence, FR;
Bruno Cartal, Montelier, FR;
Franck Girodet, Montelier, FR;
Solystic, Gentilly Cedex, FR;
Abstract
In a method for sorting postal objects in a sorting machine comprising sorting outlets with movable trays for the storage of the postal objects, respective logical destinations (DL) are associated to the sorting outlets and some sorting outlets of the machine are reserved, called reserved sorting outlets, without logical destination association. In case of the detection of a tray overflowing in a sorting outlet (DP'), the postal objects intended to this overflowing sorting outlet are directed to a reserved sorting outlet (DP″) extracted () from a logical waiting list () of reserved sorting outlets, an index is associated () to the empty tray of the reserved sorting outlet, the overflowing sorting outlet is inserted () into said waiting list and an empty tray is loaded () in the overflowing sorting outlet in the place of the full tray.