Patent ID: 7600751
Filing Date: 2009-10-13
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for stacking mailpieces produced by a mailpiece inserter into a plurality of mailpiece containers, comprising: a stacking assembly for accepting and aligning a plurality of mailpieces to define a mailpiece stack; a support/conveyor system operative to convey the mailpiece containers along a mailpiece handling path and having transport and loading sections, the loading section adapted to alternately reposition each of the mailpiece containers from an in-plane position to an out-of-plane position relative to the mailpiece handling path, and a loading mechanism engaging a first side of the mailpiece stack to urge the mailpiece stack into an open end of the mailpiece container when spatially repositioned by the loading section of the support/conveyor system; wherein the loading section is operative to transport the mailpiece containers along the mailpiece handling path when in an in-plane position, and is operative to spatially reposition each of the mailpiece containers such that the open end thereof is aligned with a second side of the mailpiece stack when in an out-of-plane position.