Patent ID: 8825199

Claim:
A postal sorting machine for sorting mailpieces and separators, said postal sorting machine comprising: sorting outlets for receiving said mailpieces and said separators in progressively formed stacks; a first unstacker for automatically unstacking said mailpieces and said separators; a conveyor for transporting said unstacked mailpieces and said unstacked separators towards said sorting outlets, and for distributing them between said sorting outlets on the basis of a predetermined sorting plan; a second unstacker distinct from said first unstacker and for automatically unstacking at least one separator on the basis of at least one predetermined criterion and for inserting it into a stream of mailpieces transported by said conveyor, said conveyor for distributing said reinserted separator to a certain predetermined sorting outlet; and a stacker for stacking separators, which stacker and said second unstacker form an integrated stacker/unstacker, and is controllable for automatically extracting separators transported by said conveyor, automatically stacking them, automatically storing them, and automatically feeding said second unstacker with separators.