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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2004
Robert Hickman, Lyneham, GB;
Robert Hickman, Lyneham, GB;
Bowe Bell + Howell Company, Durham, NC (US);
Abstract
Method of automatically sorting mailwhich has to be forwarded by means of a sorting machine, which processes the mailin a continuous main stream A and where the sorting machine comprises a feedervia which a variety of unsorted addressed mail is fed. The singled mailis marked with an individualising identifier by a following marking device. Each identifier is assigned to a data set in a file, and by means of a following reading devicethe addresses on the mailare taken up. A taken-up address is deciphered by a recognition module and is written in the corresponding data set. The mailis assigned a corresponding error information when the address cannot be deciphered. A mail piece with assigned error information is then sorted out of the main stream as scrap mail. The scrap mailis fed again together with the unsorted mailinto the feederafter the address has been verified and has been written in the corresponding data set, and the fed again scrap mailis automatically recognised as such.