Patent ID: 7213698

Claim:
A sortation assembly for sorting articles and depositing articles into trays, said sortation assembly comprising: a plurality of chutes movable along a continuous loop, said chutes being movable along and over a plurality of sort stations and being operable to deposit articles to trays positioned at said sort stations, said sort stations being configured to support a tray thereon for filling of the tray by said chutes; and at least one sensor positioned at each of said chutes, said at least one sensor being operable to detect a fill level in a tray at a respective one of said sort stations, said at least one sensor being spaced from the tray positioned at said respective one of said sort stations and being spaced from the articles deposited in the tray, said at least one sensor being operable to generate an output signal indicative of the fill level within the tray, said chutes being operable at least partially in response to said output signal of said sensors.