US 12,134,109 B2
System and method for transferring and/or sorting piece goods into removal regions
Christoph Piontek, Morsbach (DE); Ralf Lindenpütz, Altenkirchen (DE); and Dirk Westerholt, Bonn (DE)
Assigned to Deutsche Post AG, Bonn (DE)
Filed by Deutsche Post AG, Bonn (DE)
Filed on May 24, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/322,694.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2022 113 319.2 (DE), filed on May 25, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0381821 A1, Nov. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. B07C 3/00 (2006.01); B07C 3/08 (2006.01); B65G 17/26 (2006.01)
CPC B07C 3/008 (2013.01) [B07C 3/08 (2013.01); B65G 17/26 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for transferring and/or sorting piece goods into removal regions comprising:
a conveying device with a transport surface, movable in a transport direction, for piece goods, and
a multiplicity of receiving devices for moving the piece goods from the transport surface of the conveying device into the respective removal region,
the conveying device being configured as a horizontal circuit, and having at least two sections which lie opposite one another,
a first group of receiving devices pointing from the first of the two sections into an interior of the circuit,
a second group of receiving devices pointing from the second of the two sections into the interior of the circuit, and
at least one receiving device of the first group being arranged in the interior of the circuit laterally directly next to a receiving device of the second group.