公开(公告)号：US07210893B1

公开(公告)日：2007-05-01

申请号：US09694653

申请日：2000-10-23

申请人： John Overman ,  George Rabindran ,  Steve Archer ,  Sherrie Rice, legal representative ,  Mike Stollenwerck ,  Mike Ogarek

发明人： Dan Rice, deceased

IPC分类号： B65G37/00

CPC分类号： B07C3/008 ,  B65H31/3054 ,  B65H2301/42122 ,  B65H2301/422548 ,  B65H2301/4423 ,  B65H2404/154 ,  B65H2701/1916 ,  Y10S209/90

摘要： A method and apparatus is disclosed for combining multiple small stacks of flats mailpieces into a single large stack of mailpieces and then transferring the large stack to a standard flats mail tray, all while maintaining the sequence order of the mail in the accumulated stack. The apparatus is comprised of three primary subsystems: a bridge conveyor, a stack accumulator, and an output tray station. The bridge conveyor carries mailpieces from the exit conveyor of a mail processing machine such as a collator, to the stack accumulator. The stack accumulator combines small stacks of mailpieces into large stacks in a desired sequence. The output tray station provides support for an empty tray as the accumulated mail stack is transferred to the tray, and then releases the filled tray in a controlled manner.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种方法和装置，用于将多个小堆邮件组合成单个大堆邮件，然后将大堆栈传送到标准平面邮件托盘，同时保持邮件在累积堆栈中的顺序。 该设备由三个主要子系统组成：桥式输送机，堆叠式蓄电池和输出托盘站。 桥式输送机将邮件处理机（例如整理机）的出口传送带的邮件运送到堆积蓄料器。 堆栈存储器将小堆邮件以期望的顺序组合成大堆栈。 输出托盘站提供对空托盘的支持，因为累积的邮件堆栈被传送到托盘，然后以受控的方式释放填充的托盘。