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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2004
Wolf-stephan Wilke, Constance, DE;
Wolf-Stephan Wilke, Constance, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a sorting device which includes a mail item buffer storage having storage pouches, circulating in a conveying loop and moving past charge station. Below straight handover sections of the conveying loops, circulating mail from containers, displaced in a conveying path and open to the top, are provided as the sorting terminal points. The mail items are charged into the mail item containers according to their read-out target addresses by controlled opening of the respective storage pouch at that time at which the respective pouch arrives in the respective position above the associated mail item container.