MECHANICAL LETTER SORTER
Potcr Gribbon, an inventor in Glasgow, has patented in fifteen countries a, mechanical letter sorter, indicator, and conveyor, and has been invited by the postal authorities at Washington to demonstrate his device there. Re has also received inquiries from Canada, and the Irish Free State, and is now negotiating with the British postal authorities.
Mr. Oi'ibben claims that his machine eliminates mistakes in the primary sorting of mail, relieves congestion in offices at pressure periods, reduces the number of supervisory officers and large working staffs, prevents the mishandling of correspondence, facilitates the tracing of pilfering by means of a marking device, and records and times the sorter's output.
The- invention consists of a front board with a series of named slots, through which letters for the different divisions are passed. The letters are then carried by a. system of: double belts travelling in channels to their various delivery points in-the office. Two electric indicators meanwhile constantly inform the chief and floor supervisors of the operations and record each piece of mail as it passes through.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 74, 1 April 1929, Page 3
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178MECHANICAL LETTER SORTER Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 74, 1 April 1929, Page 3
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