Classifying – separating – and assorting solids – Sorting special items – and certain methods and apparatus for... – Separating means
Patent
1995-04-03
1997-01-07
Bartuska, F. J.
Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
Sorting special items, and certain methods and apparatus for...
Separating means
211 10, B07C 702
Patent
active
055907946
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus and procedure for sorting mail and the like rapidly and accurately. An array of sorting modules each contain a shelf or base and a series of vertical separator panels which divide the shelf area into a plurality of bins into which individual mail items may be selectively placed. A frontal connection feature extends transversely of the shelf, holding all of the grid of panels for movability as a set upwardly away from the shelf, but also individually movable transversely to give a bin-size adjustment to individual bins automatically in accordance with respective bins' needs. The frontal connection provides for the upward rotation with respect to the shelf, from a fore-and-aft panel-position which provides the sorting bins to move to an upraised position in which the panels are freed from the sorted mail batches so that the full set of sorted mail batches may be bundled as a group of code sets. An array of such shelf-and-panel modules are releasably retained on a large rack, by which the individual modules may be positioned and removed. The various features provide a sorting station installation particularly beneficial to that of a U.S. Post Office facility, although the concepts are not limited to that type of use.
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Bartuska F. J.
Spray Robert A.
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