Automatic machine for sorting items of correspondence, particularly magazines, into batches each having a different general destination

摘要

Labels with and without final item identification mark are put on the individual items in a label collocation station located upstream an item wrapping station followed by a film sealing and cutting station, a heating tunnel and a stacker. Reading means associated to the label collocation station read any identification marks on the labels and control feeding of recognition tabs onto the wrapped items from tab feeding means arranged between the sealing and cutting station and the heating tunnel. Tab detecting means arranged between the heating tunnel and the stacker control the stacker to terminate the formation of a batch of items when a tab on a wrapped item is detected.