Patent ID: 7025349
Filing Date: 2006-04-11
Classification: G07B

Abstract:
1. Mail location apparatus operative to locate a mail item inserted thereinto at a predetermined location in first and second mutually perpendicular directions, including: a first guide for engagement by a first edge of the mail item; a second guide for engagement by a second edge of the mail item, the second edge being adjacent to and adjoining the first edge at a corner of the mail item; and a sensor unit operative in response to the mail item being located in the predetermined location with the first edge engaging the first guide and the second edge engaging the second guide, the sensor unit including an elongate face engageable by the mail item, which face is inclined to both the first and second directions such as to be engaged by the corner of the mail item whether the mail item is inserted in the first direction, the second direction and any direction intermediate thereto, wherein the face of the sensor unit is inclined at approximately 45 degrees to the first and second directions.