Patent ID: 7572094

Claim:
Apparatus for reorienting a mail stack, comprising: a mail input tray having a horizontally oriented mail stack therein, wherein: said mail input tray includes a plurality of apertures in the bottom thereof; said input tray includes an insert having a sloping wall portion and a sloping floor portion; and said sloping floor portion includes a plurality of apertures in a pattern matching that in said bottom of said input tray; a rotating station for receiving said input tray with said mail stack; a mail output tray positioned adjacent said rotating station; a plate; an actuator mechanism for placing said plate adjacent the top of said horizontally oriented mail stack for holding said mail stack in said input tray during a subsequent rotation process; a motor coupled to rotate said rotating station with said input tray, so that said mail stack therein assumes a vertical orientation; and ejection apparatus for ejecting said vertically oriented mail stack from said input tray to said output tray, wherein said ejection apparatus includes a plurality of pusher rods which are moved through said apertures in said bottom of said input tray and through said apertures in said sloping floor portion of said insert to contact the bottom of said mail stack.