POSTAL ITEM DIRECTION CHANGING MECHANISM OF POSTAL ITEM SORTER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To speed up the direction change processing of postal items with a postal item direction changing mechanism of a postal item sorter for changing the direction of the transported postal items to an approximately perpendicular direction by providing this mechanism with contact parts with which the sides nearer the one-side ends of the transported postal items come into contact within the transporting routes for the postal items. SOLUTION: At the time of constituting the postal item direction changing mechanism 1 of the postal item sorter for changing the direction of the transported postal items to the approximately perpendicular direction, this mechanism is provided with the contact parts 3 with which the sides nearer the one-side ends of the transported postal items come into contact within the transporting routes for the postal items M. At this time, the first and second conveyor 4, 5 disposed successively in the transporting direction are disposed with the contact parts 3 in the spaces 6s forward in the transporting direction of the first conveyor 4 so that the respective conveyors 4, 5 are commonly used as sorting conveyor sections 7 for sorting the postal items M... in two directions by rotationally moving in forward and backward directions. The contact parts 3 have contact surface parts 3f which are constituted by bending and forming plate members 3b to an L shape and are provided with slopes 3fs.