Patent ID: 7210570

Claim:
A device for dynamically weighing a postal item, comprising: a plate floatingly mounted on a weight sensor; and a belt conveyor mounted on the plate to move the postal item in a longitudinal conveyor direction; an inlet and an outlet; a first pair of wheels mounted on the plate at or near the inlet, the first pair of wheels being elastically deformable; a second pair of wheels mounted on the plate at or near the outlet, the second pair of wheels being elastically deformable; and weighing electronics that weigh the postal item based on a signal from the weight sensor and using the electromagnetic principle of flux compensation; and wherein the belt conveyor comprises two vertically oriented parallel conveyor belts extending along the conveyor direction between the inlet and the outlet, so that the postal item is pinched between the two parallel conveyor belts and remains on edge while weight measurements are taken by the weighing electronics.