EP3489911B1 - Dispositif d'affranchissement des colis plats transportés individuellement ou sur un empilement sur un tronçon de traitement - Google Patents

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EP3489911B1
EP3489911B1 EP17405029.4A EP17405029A EP3489911B1 EP 3489911 B1 EP3489911 B1 EP 3489911B1 EP 17405029 A EP17405029 A EP 17405029A EP 3489911 B1 EP3489911 B1 EP 3489911B1
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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
    • B65H3/02—Separating articles from piles using friction forces between articles and separator
    • B65H3/06—Rollers or like rotary separators
    • B65H3/063—Rollers or like rotary separators separating from the 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
    • B65H3/00—Separating articles from piles
    • B65H3/34—Article-retaining devices controlling the release of the articles to the separators
    • 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
    • B65H3/46—Supplementary devices or measures to assist separation or prevent double feed
    • B65H3/52—Friction retainers acting on under or rear side of article being separated
    • B65H3/5207—Non-driven retainers, e.g. movable retainers being moved by the motion of the article
    • B65H3/523—Non-driven retainers, e.g. movable retainers being moved by the motion of the article the retainers positioned over articles separated from the bottom of the pile
    • B65H3/5238—Retainers of the pad-type, e.g. friction pads
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H5/00—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines
    • B65H5/06—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by rollers or balls, e.g. between rollers
    • B65H5/062—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by rollers or balls, e.g. between rollers between rollers or balls
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H7/00—Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles
    • B65H7/02—Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors
    • B65H7/04—Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to absence of articles, e.g. exhaustion of pile
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
    • G07B17/00193—Constructional details of apparatus in a franking system
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2513/00—Dynamic entities; Timing aspects
    • B65H2513/10—Speed
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2553/00—Sensing or detecting means
    • B65H2553/60—Details of intermediate means between the sensing means and the element to be sensed
    • B65H2553/61—Mechanical means, e.g. contact arms
    • 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 invention relates to a device for franking flat mail items, such as envelopes, mailing bags, cards, printed products, sleeves, labels or the like, which are taken individually or from the underside of an applied stack and are guided on a side edge in the transport direction F, consisting of one of a Feeder for mail items that are placed individually or stacked on top of one another and a separating station formed by a separating device, as well as a downstream processing section of a franking machine in the direction of transport of the mail items, for franking/printing the separated mail items, with the processing section in the transport area between the feeder and the separating device assigned to it being divided into several, one horizontal transport level for receiving a resp. consists of driven transport rollers forming the lowest mail item in a stack.
  • a device for franking flat mail items such as envelopes, mailing bags, cards, printed products, sleeves, labels or the like
  • Envelopes are closable shipping envelopes made of (half) cardboard for flat, in particular comparatively thin products, such as a printed product, a CD or products of a similar format.
  • this franking machine for processing mail items has a conveying device formed from conveyor rollers placed one above the other, with which mail items are pulled out of a feeder magazine arranged behind it in the conveying direction, on the underside of a stack.
  • the feeder is designed with a front wall for positioning the mail items, the lower edge of which forms a removal gap with the conveying plane, through which the mail items are transported individually.
  • a conveyor roller of the conveying plane arranged after the removal gap in the conveying direction F is assigned a guide roller that interacts with the former and is arranged above it, which is slightly upstream of the mail items with respect to the axis of rotation of the conveyor roller.
  • This guide roller is rotatably mounted with a force acting against the force acting in the same direction as the conveying direction and holds back excess mail items that are present at the removal gap.
  • the pre-released EP 2 740 693 A2 relates to a device for franking individual mail items or flat mail items taken from the underside of an applied stack and fed in the transport direction of a postage meter machine.
  • the utility model document DE 20 2016 106 124 U1 conveys a separating station for feeding flat material to a subsequent material processing station with at least one transport roller in a separating area and with separating means.
  • Cycle-bound processing or transport primarily mail items of different thicknesses from the feeder to the separating device - without adjusting / readjusting the device to the changing thickness or the cover material of the mail items to be processed - to create, so that uninterrupted processing, user-friendly operation and a high processing performance and quality, especially for the subsequent franking of mail items.
  • the object was achieved in that the rear end of the applied mail items, viewed in the transport direction, are supported on the circumference of a support roller, behind the plane running perpendicularly through the axis above the transport plane, so that a certain pre-separation or pre-separation of the respective bottom mail item is effected becomes.
  • the invention which takes a new approach, proves to be particularly successful when processing a stack of mail items of different thicknesses and formats from a feeder.
  • the support roller can be mounted in the frame so that it can rotate freely or is driven in a conveying manner about an axis that is arranged transversely to the transport direction F of the mail items, higher than the transport plane.
  • the support roller can be arranged in the frame in a displaceable/displaceable and lockable manner in order to be able to compensate for format deviations in the mail items.
  • the front end of the feeder in the transport direction is formed by a guide/feeder wall inclined backwards, the front lower end of which is at least approximately above the transport level Width of the transport plane extending passage resp. exit opening for removing the mail items from the feeder and the lower edge, which is bent in the direction of transport, creates gentle guidance.
  • the guide/feeder wall serving as a stop is preferably designed to be adjustable or height-adjustable to change the passage height or to adapt to the thickness of the mail items.
  • the device or the transport rollers and the separating device can be started up by a lowermost shipping item that is detected by the separating device and rests on an actuating element in the transport plane and can be triggered via a light barrier.
  • the device 1 illustrates a device 1 for processing individually applied or on the underside 3 of an applied stack 2 (as shown) removed from a feeder 5 for franking purposes flat mail items 4, such as envelopes, mailing bags, cards, printed products, respectively. Magazines and catalogues, covers for inserted/inserted products or the like.
  • the device 1 consists of a separating station 7 formed by a feeder 5 and a separating device 6, in which the mail items 4 that occur are processed individually and on a processing line that effectively connects the separating station 7 and a franking station 8 are transported further.
  • the processing section 8 has at least two transport rollers 11, 12 forming a horizontal transport plane 10 for the separated mail items 4, which are arranged transversely in the transport direction F and are spaced apart from one another and preferably have the same diameter resp. have the same peripheral speed and are driven in the same direction.
  • the transport rollers 11, 12 are at their ends in a housing or frame 13 of the device 1, respectively. a franking machine mounted motor-driven.
  • a franking unit (not shown) for printing, franking or imaging the mail items 4, which is connected downstream in the transport direction F, is connected to the device 1 and is connected to the present device 1 by the driven transport plane 10 or the transport rollers 11, 12 at the same time and in a conveying manner.
  • the device 1 shows the device 1 with inserted mailing items 4 forming a stack 2 in the feeder 5, which are conspicuous due to their different thicknesses and format sizes. Of course, the same format can also be used with the device 1 shown Process packages 4 or seperate.
  • the mail items 4 placed in a stack 2 in the feeder 5 are gripped on the transport roller 12 under the action of a positioning element 15 of the separating device 6 and the mail items 4 lying on/overlying the bottom mail item 4 are retained or multiple withdrawals from the feeder 5 are prevented.
  • the feeder 5 has a front guide/feeder wall 20, preferably inclined counter to the movement F, the lower end of which forms a passage/removal opening 21 for the mail items 4 to be separated with the transport plane 10.
  • the guide/feeder wall 20 is preferably inclined backwards and extends at least partially across the width of the transport plane 10; it can be adjusted/adjusted to change the height of the passage opening.
  • Lateral guides are provided on the guide/feeder wall 20, on which the guide wall 20 can be displaced in height.
  • the lower end of the guide wall 20 is bent in the transport direction F in order to be able to ensure that the mail items 4 can pass through the passage opening 21 without any problems.
  • the first transport roller 11 is supported in the housing/frame 13 of the device 1 by a freely rotatable support roller 22 that lengthens the transport plane 10 below the mail items 4 stacked in the feeder 5 .
  • a freely rotatable or independently driven support roller 23 supporting the mail items 4 in the transport direction F at the rear end above the transport plane 10 is arranged, via the friction-effective peripheral surface of which the delivery of the mail items 4 for the separation is supported.
  • This support roller 23 can be exchanged for one with a larger diameter and its position, adapted to the transport length of the mail items 4, can be adjusted/set in the transport direction F in the housing 13 of the device 1, so that the rear end, viewed in the transport direction F, of the mail items stacked in the feeder 5 on the circumference of the support roller 23, behind which plane 26 extending perpendicularly through the axis above the transport plane 10 are supported.
  • an actuating element 24 pivotable about a transversely directed axis is mounted in the housing/frame 13 of the device 1 .
  • This shown in the operating position of the device 1 and with broken lines in the inoperative position mechanical actuator 24 is the operation of the device 1, respectively.
  • the franking machine in motion as soon as a mail item 4 comes to rest on the actuating element 24 or a mail item 4 on a support roller/s 22 and the transport rollers 11, respectively. 12 or in the transport plane 10 rests.
  • the operation of the device 1 is triggered by means of a light barrier 25 to which the actuating element 24 is assigned.

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  1. Dispositif (1) pour l'affranchissement de colis plats (4), tels que des enveloppes, des pochettes d'expédition, des cartes, des produits imprimés, des housses, des étiquettes ou similaires, acheminés dans une direction de transport (F) sur un bord latéral, prélevés individuellement ou sur le côté inférieur (3) d'une pile déposée (2), constitué par un par un preneur (5) pour des colis (4) déposés individuellement ou déposés en pile les uns sur les autres et par un dispositif de séparation (6), ainsi que par une section de traitement (8) d'une machine d'affranchissement, consécutive de manière active pour l'acheminement dans la direction de transport (F) des colis (4), située en aval pour l'affranchissement/l'impression des colis séparés (4), la section de traitement (8) étant constituée, dans la zone de transport (9) entre le preneur (5) et le dispositif de séparation (6) associé à celui-ci, par plusieurs rouleaux de transport entraînés (11, 12), formant un plan de transport horizontal (10) pour recevoir un ou respectivement le colis (4) le plus bas d'une pile (2), caractérisé en ce que le dispositif (1) présente un rouleau d'appui (23), qui peut être ajusté de telle sorte que les extrémités arrière des colis déposés (4), telles que vues dans la direction de transport (F), s'appuient sur la périphérie du rouleau d'appui (23), derrière son plan (26) s'étendant perpendiculairement à travers l'axe, de manière surélevée au-dessus du plan de transport (10).
  2. Dispositif selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le rouleau d'appui (23), formé de préférence par des rouleaux individuels espacés, est monté dans le châssis (5) de manière à pouvoir tourner librement ou à être entraîné de manière active pour l'acheminement autour d'un axe agencé transversalement à la direction de transport (F) des colis (4).
  3. Dispositif selon la revendication 1 et/ou 2, caractérisé en ce que le rouleau d'appui (23) est agencé dans le châssis (13) de manière à pouvoir être réglé/coulissé et fixé, tel que vu dans la direction de transport (F).
  4. Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que l'extrémité avant du preneur (5) dans la direction de transport (F) des colis (4) est formée par une paroi de guidage/de preneur (20) de préférence inclinée vers l'arrière, dont l'extrémité inférieure située en amont forme avec le plan de transport (10) une ouverture de passage (21) s'étendant au moins partiellement sur la largeur du plan de transport (10) pour le prélèvement des colis (4).
  5. Dispositif selon la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce que la paroi de guidage/de preneur (20) est configurée pour être réglable/ajustable en hauteur pour modifier l'ouverture de passage (21).
  6. Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 5, caractérisé en ce que l'entraînement des rouleaux de transport (11, 12) formant le plan de transport (10) est déclenché par le colis (4) le plus bas d'une pile (2) ou par un colis individuel (4) colis (4) reposant sur un élément d'actionnement (24) agencé dans le plan de transport (10).
  7. Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisé en ce que le premier rouleau de transport entraîné (11), tel que vu dans la direction de transport (F), est précédé d'un rouleau de support (22) pouvant tourner librement, prolongeant le plan de transport (10) sous les colis déposés (4).
EP17405029.4A 2017-11-22 2017-11-22 Dispositif d'affranchissement des colis plats transportés individuellement ou sur un empilement sur un tronçon de traitement Active EP3489911B1 (fr)

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US16/058,201 US10589947B2 (en) 2017-11-22 2018-08-08 Apparatus for franking flat items of mail transported individually or from a supplied stack, such as envelopes, mailers, cards, printed products, sleeves, labels or the like, on a processing line
CN201810959698.8A CN109809214A (zh) 2017-11-22 2018-08-22 用于在加工路段上给单个地或以经靠放的堆叠运输的、扁平的寄送件进行盖印的机构

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