Patent ID: 7845484

Claim:
A storage module for flat postal items, comprising: a storage area; an infeed function configured to transfer postal items from a stream of postal items into the storage area; and an extraction function configured to extract postal items from the storage area, wherein the infeed and extraction function include a common roller conveyor unit configured for rotation in only one travel direction and a feed stop, wherein the infeed function is configured so that the postal items are guided in a direction of travel of the roller conveyor unit from the roller conveyor against the feed stop for a transfer into the storage area, wherein the extraction function is configured so that a postal item that is stacked last is extractable from the storage area in the direction of travel of the roller conveyor unit through an extraction opening, the feed stop being movable in the stacking direction in order to produce the extraction opening, wherein the storage area includes a separating knife configured to exert in the infeed function a first pressure antiparallel to a stacking direction on at least part of the postal items stored in the storage area, the first pressure being set depending on at least one characteristic of a postal item currently to be stored, and to exert in the extraction function a second pressure antiparallel to the stacking direction on at least part of the postal items stored in the storage area, the second pressure being set depending on at least one characteristic of the last postal item stored.