Facility Wide Mixed Mail Sorting and/or Sequencing System and Components and Methods Thereof

摘要

The invention generally relates to a facility wide sorting and/or sequencing system for improving product processing operations and, more particularly, to a facility wide system and related functionality for simultaneously sorting and sequencing mixed mail pieces such as, for example, flats and letter mail pieces. The flats and letter mail pieces are placed in frames so that all types of mail pieces can be sorted and/or sequenced simultaneously through merging and diverting a stream of filled trays into and out of different streams at a full or substantially full transport speed.

主权项

1. A conveyance or transport system comprising conveyance mechanisms configured to transport frames at a canted angle of about 45 degrees with relation to a stream of travel and in a front-to-back orientation, wherein the conveyance mechanisms are structured and arranged to divert selected ones of the frames without slowing a transport speed.