SORTING CONVEYOR HAVING PIVOTING FLAPS AND CORREPSONDING SORTING INSTALLATION

摘要

The invention relates to a sorting conveyor (6) with pivoting flaps (7, 7a, 7b) for sorting postal parcels (2) in sorting outlets (4) according to a sorting indication affixed to said objects. The conveyor comprises a control / control unit (11) designed to control the pivoting of each flap between a closed position in which the flap forms a conveying portion capable of conveying an object in a certain conveying direction (D1) and a position open in which the shutter interrupts the conveying of an object on said conveyor to deflect to an appropriate sorting outlet (4). The control / command unit (11) is further arranged to retrieve in memory a datum indicative of a certain thickness of said object (2) to be deflected and to control in return the pivoting of the flap in the open position by a certain amplitude of aperture determined according to said thickness datum of the object to be deflected.