Patent ID: 6897395

Claim:
A mail sorter, which recovers the respective mail conveyed by a number of conveyor baskets, which moves the mail on a mail sorting line in circulation, into mail recovery box groups, characterized in that: said sorting line comprises a conveying forward run and a conveying return run closely arranged back to back with each other, said mail recovery box groups are disposed in lowest stage, middle stage and uppermost stage layers along a lower region of said conveying return run in parallel to each other, each layer having a chute associated with it, and said mail recovery box groups comprise the lowest stage boxes for recovering mail released from the conveyor baskets on said conveying forward run through a transverse deflection chute, the middle stage boxes for recovering mail released from the conveyor baskets on said conveying forward run through a discharge chute, and the uppermost stage boxes for recovering mail released from the conveying baskets on said conveying return run through a buffer chute.