Patent ID: 7527154

Claim:
A postal sorting machine for sorting flat mail items comprising storage bins and a bucket carousel with buckets for conveying mail items above a plurality of storage bins, characterized in that said buckets are each extending vertically with an inclination of approximately 60° relative to the horizontal, in that each storage bin is substantially rectangular block shaped with an opened top portion and a bottom portion surrounded by outside walls which flare from said top portion towards said bottom portion, in that said bottom portion of each storage bin comprises two inclined inside walls that in section form a V-shape when said storage bin is disposed with said top portion extending substantially horizontally under said moving buckets, one of said inclined inside walls constituting a jogging wall inclined at approximately 70° relative to the horizontal against which an edge of a mail item is coming into alignment in the bottom of the bin and the other of said inclined inside walls constituting a landing wall inclined at approximately 40° with respect to the horizontal along which a mail item is landing flat in the bottom of the bin, and in that each storage bin is disposed horizontally with respect to an inclined bucket moving above said storage bin so that a mail item which is leaving by gravity said bucket with a certain angular position is landing flat on said landing inclined wall of said storage bin after following a parabolic path without its angular position being modified and being jogged on edge against said jogging inclined wall of said storage bin.