SORTING MACHINE COMPRISING A BUCKET CONVEYOR WITH REDUCTION OF SORTING OUTLETS

摘要

The sorting machine for sorting mail items comprises a sorting bucket conveyor (1) which moves the buckets (3) above sorting outlets (S1,S2,Sn) comprising removable storage trays (5), under the control of a control unit (4). The control unit can detect (20) that a current mail item has a destination address that does not correspond to a sorting outlet available in the machine. In this case, a manipulator robot (R) replaces the tray of a sorting outlet with an empty tray (or a tray already containing mail for the same destination address) into which said current mail item is sorted, the replaced tray being placed on standby on a shelf (8).