Patent ID: 7165377
Filing Date: 2007-01-23
Classification: B07C

Abstract:
1. A method of preparing a postman's walk with mail items including at least one of letters and “large format” flat postal objects, in a single pass of each mail item through a machine, wherein said machine includes: a conveyor for moving in series said mail items over bins of a bin carrousel, said conveyor having switching flaps distributed at regular intervals along the conveyor for directing each mail item towards one of the bins of the carrousel corresponding to a delivery point of the postman's walk; said bin carrousel with bins being disposed in a loading position respectively in register under corresponding switching flaps of the conveyor, each bin in a loading position being held inclined relatively to a vertical direction and having a top opening which is in register with a corresponding switching flap and a bottom opening which is held closed; and a bundling system under said bin carrousel for bagging the content of successive bins of the bin carrousel respectively in successive bags of a string of bags made from two strips of plastic material unreeled stepwise by presser wheel means and closed by heater blades means, wherein said method comprises the steps of when all the mail items of a postman's walk are loaded in the bins of said bin carrousel,