GB279038A - Improvements in or relating to sorting and collecting devices - Google Patents

Abstract

279,038. Telephon - Apparat - Fabrik E. Zwietusch & Co., Ges. Oct. 18, 1926, [Convention date]. Letters, and the like, systems of transmitting and delivering.-Conveyer bands 6, 7 pass through boxes 1 - - 2a, into which letters may be sorted from both front and rear through slits 5 in the walls 3, 4 of the boxes. The bands 6, 7 carry the letters to containers 9, as shown in Fig. 4, the containers being formed with flap bottoms 10 to allow periodic discharge. of the contents. Bands 8, set across the bands 6, 7, as shown in Fig. 3, permit each band 6, 7 to be fed from either the front or the rear of the boxes. The letters are supplied for sorting by bands 11, Fig. 6, which may come from a stamping machine, and which feed the letters to bands 12 - - 15 surrounding the boxes, the letters circulating on the bands until all have been sorted. A folding type of distributing band 12 - - 15 may be used. the band being guided so that the upper limb is kept open and the return limb closed so that letters which are at first unsorted are carried down by the return limb and again pass the boxes.