EP0422434B1 - Vorrichtung zum Einstellen des Datumstempels einer Frankiermaschine - Google Patents

Vorrichtung zum Einstellen des Datumstempels einer Frankiermaschine Download PDF

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EP0422434B1
EP0422434B1 EP90118280A EP90118280A EP0422434B1 EP 0422434 B1 EP0422434 B1 EP 0422434B1 EP 90118280 A EP90118280 A EP 90118280A EP 90118280 A EP90118280 A EP 90118280A EP 0422434 B1 EP0422434 B1 EP 0422434B1
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Rudolf Grünig
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
    • G07B17/00508—Printing or attaching on mailpieces
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    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
    • G07B17/00508—Printing or attaching on mailpieces
    • G07B2017/00516—Details of printing apparatus
    • G07B2017/00524—Printheads
    • G07B2017/00548—Mechanical printhead

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  • the invention relates to a device for setting the date stamp of a franking machine in accordance with the preamble of claim 1.
  • Franking machines are on the market in various variations. As a standard, these machines have a printing rotor that has a postage stamp and a date stamp on its cylindrical surface. The numbers of both stamps are adjustable.
  • the printing rotor rolls on the mail item to be franked with one complete revolution, e.g. a letter and prints the mentioned and any other stamps one after the other.
  • a franking machine is described, for example, in Hasler Mitteilungen 37 (April 1978), number 1, pages 1-7 (R. Grünig: the Hasler Mailmaster franking machine).
  • a first device for setting a date stamp of a franking machine other than manually with a stylus is known from the document CH 418 705.
  • This device comprises a manually operated rotary knob which is coupled to a cam disc. If the knob is turned, the dials of the date stamp are unlocked one after the other, switched on and finally locked again.
  • a semi-automatic setting device for the type wheels of the date stamp of a franking machine is known from the document EP 105 424.
  • This device has actuating plungers actuated by electromagnets, which gradually adjust the type wheels in the manner of a ratchet drive by means of gear wheels.
  • the adjustment plungers either engage in the outside of the printing cylinder or are actuated by a rack mounted in the axis of the printing cylinder. In the latter case there is a compact design, but the effort required is considerable.
  • Another semi-automatic device for setting the date stamp is known from the document CH 670 524.
  • This device uses the racks guided in the axis of the printing cylinder, which primarily serve to set the number wheels of the postage stamp. It has a cam, an extension on one of the racks and spring-loaded levers. When these agents work together, the type roles of the date stamp come into engagement with the other racks and can thus be changed in terms of their setting via these racks.
  • a further franking machine is known from the document US Pat. No. 4,774,881, in which the number wheels arranged in the printing rotor for the postage impression and the date stamp can be individually and automatically set from the outside.
  • the machine has a stepper motor in its stand part, which can be coupled to a drive wheel via a slot coupling.
  • the drive wheel is in engagement with a different one of the number wheels at different angular positions of the rotor.
  • a processor controls the desired angular position of the rotor and causes the numerical wheel selected thereby to advance.
  • the date advance is preferably at midnight.
  • a four-digit amount 2 is given in the value stamp 1, in the example the number 0475 with the meaning "postage amount 4 guilders 75 cents".
  • To the left is the round date stamp 3, which contains a location on the edge and inside a date 4, in the example the date February 2, 1989.
  • the third is a text 5, which is contained on an interchangeable cliché and has no postal meaning owns.
  • Fig. 2 shows a block diagram of a franking machine 11.
  • the franking machine 11 includes, among other things, a stationary stator part 12, e.g. Franking machine called, and a rotatable printing rotor 13 arranged thereon.
  • Four type or number wheels 16 to 19 of a date stamp 20 are arranged coaxially in the rotor 13.
  • Each of the wheels 16 to 19 has the same diameter and has twelve printing positions, which are assigned by associated latching devices 26 to be stabilized to 29.
  • the wheel 16 is used for printing the ones digits of the days of the month, the wheel 17 for printing the associated tens digits.
  • the wheel 18 prints the respective month and the wheel 19 the year.
  • the rotor 13 further comprises a row of pawls 23 with three parallel pawls 66 to 68 which are rigidly connected to one another and are in contact with the number wheels 16 to 18. It also includes a pawl actuator 24 and, as part of a clutch 32, a slotted shaft 33.
  • the pawl actuator 24 comprises a camshaft that rotates together with the shaft 33. The camshaft moves the row of pawls 23, which can be pivoted about a rigid axis, against the force of a preloaded spring.
  • the three pawls 66 to 68 engage in the number wheels 16 to 18 in a manner to be described.
  • the stator part 12 comprises a (small) drive motor 41, which is followed, via a gear 42, by a shaft 34 which is flattened on both sides, as the second component of the clutch 32.
  • a switch 45 and a battery 46 are connected upstream of the motor 41.
  • the franking mechanism 12 further comprises a second (larger) motor 52 with a gear for driving the rotor 13, a first 48 and a second position detector 54, an electronic logic unit 56 with memory and one Clock module 58.
  • the franking machine 11 works as follows: as soon as the date stamp 20 is to be reset, the motor 52 brings the printing rotor 13 into the angular position in which the flattened shaft 34 is located in the slot of the slotted shaft 33. As a result, the clutch 32 couples the motor 41 to the number wheels 16 to 18. The motor 52 and the pressure rotor 13 arranged downstream of it are then blocked electronically and mechanically in their position by the logic unit 56 via the line 51. The second position detector 54 registers the correct angular position of the rotor 13 and reports this to the logic unit 56 via the line 55. The latter then switches on the drive motor 41 via the switch 45, whereby it starts up and the pawl actuator 24 via the gear 42 and the clutch 32 sets in motion.
  • the first position detector 48 monitors this process and reports back to the logic unit 56 via the line 49 when the setting step has been completed.
  • the logic unit 56 receives its start command either “manually” via the input line 57, which connects a keyboard (not shown) of the franking machine 11 to this unit 56. With automatic operation comes the By contrast, the start command is given at midnight from clock module 58.
  • This module is a commercial electronic module that retraces the course of the year with its peculiarities of the changing lengths of the month by emitting appropriate signals.
  • the battery 46 is a small backup battery which ensures that the electronic assemblies 56 and 58 and the motor 41 can work even when the franking machine 11 is disconnected from the public power grid at night or at the weekend, i.e. is switched off. It enables the date to be set independently of this network.
  • the row of pawls 23 has - as described - three pawls 66, 67, 68 which are rigidly connected to one another and are in operative contact with the number wheels 16, 17, 18. Each of these three pawls has a different length. This is shown symbolically in FIG. 3. In a real embodiment, the number wheels 16, 17, 18 - as already mentioned - are arranged axially next to one another and the pawls 66, 67, 68 are made considerably smaller than shown. The pawls move back and forth essentially in the direction of the double arrow 64.
  • the number wheels 16, 17, 18 have the same diameter and are divided into twelve segments, which correspond to the twelve printing positions mentioned.
  • a pawl tooth 61 is assigned to each segment and a tooth gap 62 lying between two teeth 61 in each case.
  • eleven tooth gaps 62 have the same depth, while the twelfth tooth gap 62T is recessed in relation to the others.
  • the number wheel 17 has three recessed tooth gaps 62T which are evenly distributed over the wheel circumference.
  • the number wheel 18 has no recessed tooth gap.
  • the longest pawl 66 In its rest position, the longest pawl 66 either lies in a normal tooth gap 62 of the number wheel 16 (as shown) or engages in the recessed tooth gap 62T of this wheel 16. In the first case, the pawl 66 engages a normal tooth gap 62, the other pawls 67, 68 do not extend as far as possible into the tooth gaps 62 or 62T of the associated wheels 17 and 18.
  • the row of pawls 23 is moved back and forth, only the pawl 66 engages and rotates the number wheel 16 to the next printing position.
  • the other pawls 67 and 68 run empty and the wheels 17, 18 remain in their previous position.
  • the pawl 67 lies in a tooth space 62 of the number wheel 17, while the pawl 66 is in the recessed tooth space 62T of the wheel 16.
  • the two pawls 66 and 67 grip and rotate the associated wheels 16 and 17 parallel to one another. If both the pawl 66 and the pawl 67 are in a recessed tooth gap 62T, then the third also engages Pawl 68 and rotates the assigned number wheel 18, so that in this case all wheels 16, 17, 18 each perform a step parallel to one another.
  • Fig. 4 shows for clarification in a tabular representation the print digits of the number wheels 16 to 19, specifically as the date is conventionally shown in German-speaking countries, i.e. from left to right day, month, year.
  • the one digits of the days of the month are thus recorded in the second column from the left, i.e. the numbers on the number wheel 16.
  • This wheel has ten print positions with the numbers 0 to 9 and two blank positions (represented by a line), for a total of twelve positions.
  • the leftmost column shows three possible digits 1 to 3 of the days of the month and the print position is empty.
  • the dial 17 thus also has twelve positions.
  • the third column from the left shows the twelve digits or the twelve names of the months (number wheel 18) and the right column the twelve years 1990 to 2001 (number wheel 19).
  • the third pawl also comes into engagement with the month wheel 18. In this case, the month is forwarded.
  • Fig. 5 shows a table of all possible days of the month or the print position combinations of the number wheels 17 and 16. Furthermore, the empty steps are specified which the pawl arrangement must carry out in order to obtain the setting of the next day based on certain days of the month. Starting from the days of the month 1 to 8, 10 to 18, 20 to 28 and 30 for months with thirty-one days, a single step is required to set the date of the next day. Starting from the days of the month 9, 19 and 29, three pawl steps are required because of the two empty positions on the number wheel 16. Starting from the days of the month 28 in February, 29 in February for leap years, 30 for months with thirty days and 31 for months with thirty-one days assigned seventeen, sixteen, thirteen or twelve steps are required until the date of the first day of the next month is set.
  • the logic unit 56 receives daily information from the clock module 58 about the respective day of the month and the length of the month. Based on a stored program, the logic unit 56 uses this information to determine the number of ratchet movements required in each case, controls the motor 41 and registers the execution via the assigned position indicator 48.
  • the respective date setting is preferably carried out automatically at midnight.
  • the clock module 58 To initialize the device, the clock module 58 must be set according to the time and date. Furthermore, the number wheels 16, 17, 18 must be rotated manually so that their setting matches the clock module.
  • the number wheel 19 is excluded from the automatic for the indication of the year and, as before, can be set purely manually using a stylus. However, it is also easily possible to automate the advancement of the number wheel 19 by means of a fourth pawl which complements the pawls 66 to 68.
  • the pawl arrangement described is simple in mechanical construction and does not require any transmission wheels or cams between the number wheels 16 to 18. Furthermore, by simply switching the pawls 66 to 68 and wheels 16 to 18 from the European date notation to another, in particular to the Anglo-Saxon date spelling can be changed.
  • the pawl actuator 24 can be embodied, for example, as a rotatable cam disk which reciprocates the row of pawls 23 which can be pivoted about a rigid axis.
  • the row of pawls is spring-loaded so that the pawls 66 to 68 rest as described in the tooth spaces 62, 62T of the number wheels 16 to 18.
  • the coupling 32 is composed of two independent halves, preferably of a slotted shaft 33 and a shaft 34 which is flattened on both sides. These halves engage in one another coaxially and with little play. As soon as the pressure rotor 13 rotates, both shafts must of course be aligned with the slot or the flattening tangentially to the rotor 13, which is controlled by the first position detector 48.
  • the clutch 32 can also be designed differently, for example as a magnetic coupling.
  • the first position detector 48 is preferably designed as a spring-loaded lever mounted on one side, which is deflected by a cam disk and thereby engages in a light barrier.
  • the cam of the cam disk is designed such that exactly one reciprocating movement of the lever occurs per revolution of the shaft 34.
  • the drive motor 41 can be of any design, preferably as a brushless DC motor of low power and voltage.
  • the second motor 52 is a much larger motor, which is preferably operated directly by the public AC network, ie with 110 or 220 V.
  • the second position detector 54 preferably comprises a permanent magnet which is fastened to the axis of the rotor 13 and acts on a permanently installed Hall probe.
  • the blocking of the pressure rotor 13 during the setting of the number wheels 16 to 18 can be done in a number of ways.
  • the general rest position of the rotor 13 is preferably used as the position in which the two halves of the coupling 32 interlock.
  • the logic unit 56 is preferably designed using a commercially available microprocessor with associated semiconductor memory, which contains a control program. In addition to the date setting described, the processor can of course also take on other control and monitoring tasks for the franking machine 11.
  • the device for setting the date stamp combines a simple, robust and therefore trouble-free mechanism with a relatively complex electronic control. However, since this is present anyway with modern franking machines, the result is an inexpensive unit that can fully cope with the operating conditions of a franking machine.
  • date stamp is to be pre- or post-dated for a special reason, this can be done manually with little effort by turning one or more of the number wheels 16 to 18 with a stylus, as is customary in conventional franking machines.
  • the means of the stator part 12 of the franking machine 11 can also serve to lower or to bring the printing plate into the printing position, which prints the instruction text 5 (FIG. 1).
  • the means can also be used to actuate a so-called shipping type stamp.
  • the pressure rotor 13 is to be brought into an assigned angular position, in which the bilaterally flattened shaft 34 of the coupling 32 is in engagement with a respective slotted shaft 33 '.
  • These respective shafts 33 ' is a pawl actuator 24', a row of pawls 23 'with a single pawl 66' and a ratchet wheel 16 '. Via this respective ratchet wheel 16 ', the cliché or the shipping method stamp can be actuated, e.g. by four steps each.

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