Patent ID: 6169936
Filing Date: 2001-01-02
Classification: B07C

Abstract:
Method of controlling the input station (10) for a mail-sorting installation, having a scanning and reading apparatus (30, 50) for reading and evaluating addresses on letters and a mechanical storage segment (20), within which the letters are moved following processing in the scanning apparatus, wherein a control of the reading location x of each letter is effected in the storage segment, so that x remains between predetermined values x.sub.0 and x.sub.max, said reading location x being the position of a letter on said storage segment when the address on such letter is evaluated, comprising determining the number y of uncoded letters in the storage segment (20) in an auxiliary regulating circuit, and feeding y back by way of a regulator (80) to generate a control value u for the discharge rate of the input station (10).