EP1510480B1 - Ausrichteinrichtung für ein Postbearbeitungssystem - Google Patents

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EP1510480B1
EP1510480B1 EP20040292077 EP04292077A EP1510480B1 EP 1510480 B1 EP1510480 B1 EP 1510480B1 EP 20040292077 EP20040292077 EP 20040292077 EP 04292077 A EP04292077 A EP 04292077A EP 1510480 B1 EP1510480 B1 EP 1510480B1
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Jean-Pierre Gregoire
Alain Multignier
Roman Rackwitz
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H3/00—Separating articles from piles
    • B65H3/66—Article guides or smoothers, e.g. movable in operation
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H1/00—Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated
    • B65H1/04—Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated adapted to support articles substantially horizontally, e.g. for separation from top of pile
    • B65H1/06—Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated adapted to support articles substantially horizontally, e.g. for separation from top of pile for separation from bottom of pile
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/20—Continuous handling processes
    • B65H2301/22—Continuous handling processes of material of different characteristics
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/30—Orientation, displacement, position of the handled material
    • B65H2301/36—Positioning; Changing position
    • B65H2301/361—Positioning; Changing position during displacement
    • B65H2301/3613—Lateral positioning
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/30—Orientation, displacement, position of the handled material
    • B65H2301/36—Positioning; Changing position
    • B65H2301/362—Positioning; Changing position of stationary material
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/30—Orientation, displacement, position of the handled material
    • B65H2301/36—Positioning; Changing position
    • B65H2301/363—Positioning; Changing position of material in pile
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2404/00—Parts for transporting or guiding the handled material
    • B65H2404/70—Other elements in edge contact with handled material, e.g. registering, orientating, guiding devices
    • B65H2404/74—Guiding means
    • B65H2404/741—Guiding means movable in operation
    • B65H2404/7414—Guiding means movable in operation pivotable
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2405/00—Parts for holding the handled material
    • B65H2405/10—Cassettes, holders, bins, decks, trays, supports or magazines for sheets stacked substantially horizontally
    • B65H2405/11—Parts and details thereof
    • B65H2405/111—Bottom
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2511/00—Dimensions; Position; Numbers; Identification; Occurrences
    • B65H2511/10—Size; Dimensions
    • B65H2511/12—Width
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/10—Handled articles or webs
    • B65H2701/19—Specific article or web
    • B65H2701/1916—Envelopes and articles of mail

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  • the present invention relates exclusively to the field of mail processing and more particularly relates to a device for avoiding the biasing of mail items when they are introduced into a mail processing machine.
  • the anti-bias (or anti-roll) function is performed by the jogging device of the mail items which acts directly on the lateral positioning of the mail items.
  • a device is described for example in the document US-A-6,523,822 .
  • this function is effectively ensured only if the tapped mail items are of the same size. Indeed, in the case of mail of different sizes (bulk mail), this jogging is done on mail items having the largest dimensions. The result is then for items with smaller dimensions a possibility of biasing sizeable.
  • the present invention therefore aims to overcome this disadvantage with a device to avoid this biasing, particularly when feeding bulk mail items.
  • An object of the invention is also to provide a device easily adaptable to different formats of mail items resulting from separate postal standards without particular changes in its structure.
  • Another object of the invention is to propose a device whose integration into a traditional mail processing machine is easy to achieve without having to redefine the general architecture of this machine.
  • an anti-bias device for mail processing machine comprising a receiving tray for receiving in a stack of articles the mail items to be printed, a jogging means for knocking this pile of articles against a wall referencing, a means of selection for extract one by one from this stack of articles the mail items to be printed and a printing means for printing a postal imprint on the selected mail piece, characterized in that it comprises a plurality of retractable members positioned each at a determined distance from said referencing wall and having a first end extending through an opening in said receiving tray to form a removable lateral obstacle above said platen for the mail items.
  • the determined distances each correspond to a width of envelope of different format.
  • said first end has a triangular shape.
  • the number of openings in the receiving tray may be greater than the number of retractable members.
  • the anti-bias device for mail processing machine comprises retractable members consisting of at least two pivoting levers.
  • the pivoting levers are articulated on a common shaft secured to a frame of the mail processing machine by means of a support bar and each of said pivoting levers comprises a second end connected to an elastic element integral with this bar. support.
  • a traditional mail processing machine is illustrated in the figure 4 . It conventionally comprises from upstream to downstream (with respect to the direction of movement of the mailpieces through the machine): a feed station 10 provided with a receiving plate 12 on which are placed in a homogeneous compact stack or no (depending on whether these articles are of the same size or not) mail items to be printed, drive rollers 14 and jogging means (advantageously lateral 16 and / or rear) of these mail items against a wall of bet in reference 18; a selection station 20 for extracting one by one from the bottom of the stack the mail items to be printed; and a printing station 22 for printing a postal imprint on the selected mail article.
  • a feed station 10 provided with a receiving plate 12 on which are placed in a homogeneous compact stack or no (depending on whether these articles are of the same size or not) mail items to be printed, drive rollers 14 and jogging means (advantageously lateral 16 and / or rear) of these mail items against a wall of be
  • the lateral jogging means guarantee these mailpieces always correct positioning on the means of selection, that is to say with a position of the front of each article.
  • mail perpendicular to the reference wall it is easily understood that if a mail article 24 has a width less than that of the other articles tapped 26, then the position of its front may have an angle ⁇ relative to the perpendicular to this wall, so that the selection This is done crookedly and the resulting impression can be greatly degraded.
  • retractable members comprise a plurality of anti-bias levers 32 (for example three in number as illustrated) articulated on a common shaft 34 mounted transversely to the direction advanced mail items and secured at both ends of the chassis of the mail processing machine, more precisely the receiving tray of the supply station, via a support bar 36.
  • each pivoting lever which is substantially generally gooseneck-shaped, comprises a first triangular end portion 32A intended to pass through an opening 12A made in the receiving tray in order to define a removable lateral obstacle on top of this receiving plate for mail items.
  • a first end portion opposite the first relative to the hinge, is hung a first end of an elastic member 38 whose other end is secured to the support bar.
  • This elastic element a spring for example, is adjusted so as not to hinder the movement of mail items and thus to fade under the weight of a mail item whose width exceeds the wall distance referencing / lever while effectively preventing biasing of a mailpiece whose width corresponds to this distance from the reference wall to the lever by forming a removable lateral jogging element for this article.
  • each lever 32 is positioned relative to the reference wall 18 at a distance corresponding precisely to an envelope width of a specific format and different for each lever.
  • a distance corresponding precisely to an envelope width of a specific format and different for each lever.
  • the postal standards in force in the European territory it is possible to place levers at the following three distances: 114 mm, 125 mm and 140 mm corresponding to the three standard formats known under the references C6, B6 and E6. Similar references also exist in the United States.
  • these values are given for purely illustrative purposes and any other combination of standard formats is conceivable.
  • the mail items stored loose on the receiving tray 12 can be extracted one by one while being correctly held against the referencing wall 18.
  • the mail items of larger size such as 40 (defining the width of the stack) are correctly tapped by the means of jogging 16
  • the article referenced 42 is also but by the third lever, the first and second levers then being erased.
  • the article of mail 44 it is the first lever that is its means of individual jogging avoiding possible biasing.

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Claims (8)

  1. Schrägstellungssicherung für eine Postbearbeitungsmaschine, umfassend eine Aufnahmeplatte (12), um die zu bedruckenden Poststücke als einen Poststückstapel aufzunehmen, ein Einrüttelmittel (16), um diesen Poststückstapel gegen eine Bezugswand (18) einzurütteln, ein Auswahlmittel (20), um aus diesem Poststückstapel die zu bedruckenden Poststücke nacheinander herauszuziehen, sowie ein Druckmittel (22), um auf das ausgewählte Poststück einen Poststempel zu drucken, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß sie eine Vielzahl einziehbarer Organe (32) umfaßt, die jeweils in einem bestimmten Abstand von der Bezugswand angeordnet sind und von denen sich ein erstes Ende durch eine in der Aufnahmeplatte ausgebildete Öffnung (12A) erstreckt, um oberhalb der genannten Platte ein lösbares seitliches Hindernis für die Poststücke zu bilden.
  2. Schrägstellungssicherung für eine Postbearbeitungsmaschine nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die bestimmten Abstände jeweils einer Breite eines Kuverts mit unterschiedlichem Format entsprechen.
  3. Schrägstellungssicherung für eine Postbearbeitungsmaschine nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das erste Ende eine dreieckige Form (32A) aufweist.
  4. Schrägstellungssicherung für eine Postbearbeitungsmaschine nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Anzahl der in der Aufnahmeplatte ausgebildeten Öffnungen (12A, 12B) größer ist als die Anzahl einziehbarer Organe.
  5. Schrägstellungssicherung für eine Postbearbeitungsmaschine nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die einziehbaren Organe von Schwenkhebeln (32) gebildet sind.
  6. Schrägstellungssicherung für eine Postbearbeitungsmaschine nach Anspruch 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß sie wenigstens zwei Schwenkhebel aufweist.
  7. Schrägstellungssicherung für eine Postbearbeitungsmaschine nach Anspruch 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Schwenkhebel an einer gemeinsamen Welle (34) angelenkt sind, die mittels einer Trägerschiene (36) fest mit einem Gestell der Postbearbeitungsmaschine verbunden ist.
  8. Schrägstellungssicherung für eine Postbearbeitungsmaschine nach Anspruch 7, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß ein jeder der Schwenkhebel ein zweites Ende aufweist, das mit einem Federelement (38) dieser Trägerschiene verbunden ist.
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