Patent ID: 7944097

Claim:
A drive mechanism for a sorting gate of a mail sorting machine, used to deflect flat, flexible mail items as they are transported through a mail sorting machine, comprising: a single piece base plate that has a bottom plate; a shaft; a bearing assembly for mounting the shaft on the single piece base plate; a stator, which is permanently fastened to the single piece base plate; a rotor, which is rotatably mounted in the single piece base plate so as to accommodate the shaft and rotate the shaft; a location opening which extends transversely to the extension of the shaft in the bottom of the single piece base plate; and a connection dome on the single piece base plate for mounting the shaft, wherein the connection dome extends to a side of and above a first bearing, which is held in the bottom of the single piece base plate in a first bearing seat, and has a second bearing seat for a second bearing for mounting the shaft, characterized in that the bearing assembly, the rotor and the stator are all arranged on the single piece base plate, or the bearing assembly, the rotor, the stator, at least one stop surface for a stop on the rotor, and a heat dissipation assembly for the stator are all arranged on the single piece base plate, and wherein the location opening has at least one stop surface, which is arranged as a wall section of the single piece base plate for the purpose of limiting a path of travel of at least one stop, which is formed or non-rotatably arranged on the rotor, during rotation of the rotor in the direction of rotation of the at least one stop.