A POSTAL SORTING MACHINE WITH ROBOTIZED HANDLING ARMS

摘要

A postal sorting machine includes a sorting conveyor having sorting outlets, a first feed branch adapted for automatically injecting heterogeneous postal articles of the small parcel type into the sorting conveyor, and a second feed branch adapted for injecting homogeneous flat mailpieces of the letter type, or the magazine type, or of some analogous type into the sorting conveyor. The first feed branch has an inlet adapted for receiving the heterogeneous postal articles loose, and it is provided with at least one robotized handling arm of the “pick and place” type.

主权项

1. A feed branch serving to feed heterogeneous postal articles such as small parcels to a sorting conveyor having sorting outlets, said feed branch comprising:
an inlet adapted for receiving said heterogeneous postal articles, at least one robotized handling arm of the “pick and place” type adapted for taking the heterogeneous postal articles one-by-one and for placing them in series on a flat conveyor that moves them in series and flat along a certain conveyor path, image-taking means disposed along said conveyor path for the purpose of forming a digital image of each postal article that bears a postal address, transfer means disposed at an end of said conveyor path for the purpose of transferring each postal article from the flat conveyor to the sorting conveyor, and at least one first robotized handling arm that is adapted for singulating said heterogeneous postal articles and at least one second robotized handling arm that is adapted for putting said singulated postal articles in series and flat.