Patent ID: 6321913
Filing Date: 2001-11-27
Classification: B07C

Abstract:
A sorting facility for flat mail items (5) leading to a sorting device (2), said facility comprising a rotating conveyor belt (1) that is separated into equal sections by means of end stops (6), wherein the conveyor belt has assigned to it in horizontally oriented sections (3, 12) several successive processing stations (e.g. 4, 7, 8, 9, 13) for flat positioned mail items (5) characterized in that a first horizontally oriented section (3) with the preceding processing stations (4, 7, 8, 9) is arranged below a second horizontally oriented sections (12) with subsequently installed processing stations (13) and the return of the conveyor belt (1) from the sorting device (2), that following the first horizontally oriented section (3), the conveyor belt (1) is guided around at least two deflection devices (11) around the first section (3) to the second horizontally oriented section (12), wherein a cover belt (14) that rotates along in part is provided in the deflection region, on the side of end stops (6), which makes contact with the end stops and is also guided by the deflections devices (11).