Patent ID: 7275633

Claim:
A device for changing a direction of conveyance of flat postal items and a position of the postal items relative to their direction of conveyance, comprising: a feed conveyor arranged to feed the postal items on a conveyor track with a speed of conveyance v Zu such that the postal items are carried away from the device by a conveyor on a second conveyor track with a changed direction of conveyance and a speed of conveyance V Ab , a driven carousel tray arranged to be fastened with one or more gripper arms with lengths which can be modified in a controlled manner, controlled joint ends having two or three degrees of freedom and arranged at free ends of the gripper arms to which grippers are attached, wherein the speed of rotation of the carousel tray and during the rotation of the carousel tray the lengths of the gripper arms as well as the spatial orientation of the grippers are arranged to be controlled in such a way that the grippers execute linear movements along the first conveyor track with approximately the speed v Zu and along the second conveyor track with approximately the speed v Ab , wherein during the linear movements the spatial orientation of the joint ends remain the same as the orientation of the grippers to the relevant transport track, and wherein the postal items are gripped and put down by the grippers during their linear movements.