EP0470551A1 - Vorrichtung zum Einstellen der Typenräder einer Frankiermaschine - Google Patents

Vorrichtung zum Einstellen der Typenräder einer Frankiermaschine Download PDF

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EP0470551A1
EP0470551A1 EP91113136A EP91113136A EP0470551A1 EP 0470551 A1 EP0470551 A1 EP 0470551A1 EP 91113136 A EP91113136 A EP 91113136A EP 91113136 A EP91113136 A EP 91113136A EP 0470551 A1 EP0470551 A1 EP 0470551A1
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Jean-Pierre Gregoire
Jean-Luc Haroutel
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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
    • 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
    • G07B2017/00516—Details of printing apparatus
    • G07B2017/00524—Printheads
    • G07B2017/00548—Mechanical printhead

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  • the present invention relates to franking machines with a print head detachably mounted on a base, and the print head of which is with a print drum carrying printing rollers. It relates more particularly in such machines, to the device for adjusting the print wheels.
  • These printing wheels are, in known manner, rotatably mounted on the drum to allow them to be adjusted in position, in the absence of a franking operation. They are also slightly protruding on the periphery of the drum and rotatable with it, for the printing of fixed and variable information of postage at each rotation of the drum.
  • the dials are used to print variable value and postage date information.
  • the printing drum therefore carries two sets of wheels for this variable information, which protrude from the drum through suitable openings in a plate engraved with postal stickers.
  • This engraved plate follows the periphery of the drum and carries the fixed postage information, in the form of imprints of the postage sticker and of the home office sticker, or another defined form.
  • This same drum generally carries, in addition, another engraved plate called advertising similar to the first but often retractable mounted, which is assigned to the printing of fixed advertising information.
  • other printing means such as one or more retractable pads are associated with the drum.
  • the document FR-A 2 335 002 describes a franking machine of the aforementioned type with a device for adjusting the value wheels, with manual control for each wheel.
  • This device comprises, identically between each wheel and its control, suitable transmission means, which are with driven pinions coupled with each other and with manual control, with one or more driven pinions coupled with each other and with wheel concerned, and with two racks coupled to each other and to one of the driving and driven pinions.
  • the device for controlling the position of the different knurls is mounted, with the motors assigned to this function, in the print head. It makes the print head relatively large and heavy, making it more difficult to transport.
  • the removable print head is an access security module prohibited for the user or any other person not authorized by the Postal Administration. It therefore requires the intervention of the authorized person for any maintenance problem essentially concerning this device for adjusting the knobs, with a large and complex number of parts.
  • the object of the present invention is to avoid such drawbacks.
  • said control interface is carried by a rotary hub in the interface housing, around the sleeve on the spindle, and driven by a motor for angular orientation of said interface, mounted in the base and coupled to said control card.
  • said hub has a vertical toothed crown, parallel to the front and rear walls of said base, the teeth of which are engaged with a pinion driven by the angular orientation motor.
  • said control interface comprises as many individual motors as there are printing wheels assigned to the same function in the head and said franking wheels for some and date wheels for others, with a cascade of three pinions leading associated with each individual engine.
  • six individual motors, for six franking or date wheels, and their six cascades of driving pinions are carried by six fan-shaped support parts having between them a plane of symmetry.
  • said device further comprises so-called additional knobs, carried by said printing drum and assigned to the automatic control of additional printing equipment carried or associated with the drum, to which correspond pinions driven additional on these knobs.
  • the franking machine is that which is the subject of French patent application No. 90 08 752 filed on July 10, 1990 in the name of the plaintiff. A description of this machine is included in the present application, with reference to FIG. 1 and / or to FIG. 2, as regards the mounting of the head on the base.
  • This machine has a removable print head 1 on a base 2.
  • the dotted lines 1 A illustrate the head in place on the front of the base, or its location on the base, the arrow 1 B its positioning and the arrow 3 In advance of an article 3 under the head in place.
  • the head 1 forms a security module, the different parts of which are mounted in a quasi-closed box 10, of access not authorized for the user. It essentially comprises a printing drum 11, a sheath 12, and a card 13 of the accounting circuits known as the accounting card of the machine.
  • the drum 11 is flat 11 A, which is flush through a window 10A in the bottom of the housing, for the rest position of the drum. It carries on its periphery an engraved plate 14 for printing postal stickers and two sets of printing wheels for the postage amount and the date, such as the wheel 15.
  • the drum also carries means for advertising printing, not illustrated, similar to plate 14 but retractable.
  • the printing rollers 15 protrude slightly through the plate 14, on the periphery of the drum and are rotatable with it. These print wheels 15 are also adjustable to the desired values of amount and date by the device according to the present invention.
  • the sheath 12 carries the drum on its inner front end portion with a head. On the other hand, it has its protruding rear end portion on the back of the head for access to its bore. It is used for mounting and holding the head on the base and ensures the rotation of the drum from the base. It is rotatably mounted in the head between two rolling bearings 16 and 17, on the internal face of the front wall and on the crossing of the rear wall.
  • the accounting card 13 is fixed to one of the side walls or the upper wall of the head. It is connected to a connector 18 mounted in the rear wall of the head for its connection to the base.
  • a non-smooth extra thickness 19 on the outside of the housing facilitates the gripping of the head, with one hand, for its mounting on the base or its mounting.
  • the base 2 forms another separate set, which is authorized access.
  • the base For the user in front of the base, it has its truncated right front corner, which defines the location 1A of the head.
  • this database can belong to or be linked to a mail processing installation.
  • the base has an insertion slot 20 for articles under the head. It includes a printing counter roller 21, a spindle 22, a spindle and counter-roller drive mechanism, not shown, and at least one card 24 of the control circuits of the base and of the head, called order card.
  • the insertion slot is horizontal and open at location 1A of the head on the base. Its lower side forms a continuous platform 25 on which the articles advance in the base and under the head in place.
  • Pin 22 is horizontal. It is rotatably mounted in the base. It is carried by the rear wall not shown and an intermediate spacer 26 and guided in rolling bearings such as the bearing 27 on the spacer 26. It has its front end part accessible on the front of the base and preferably projecting in the location 1A of the head on the base, through a wide opening 29 of a front wall 2A. She receives the scabbard over her; when the head is in place, the rear part of the sheath is inserted into the base through the opening 29.
  • means 22A and / or 22B on the spindle 22 and complementary means 12A and / or 12B on the sheath 12 ensure the locking in rotation of the sheath on the spindle.
  • a connector 28 on the base and the connector 18 of the head also then ensure the connection of the head and the base.
  • the printing counter roller is mounted, at the end of an invisible shaft, under location 1A of the head. It protrudes on the platform 25, through a window 25A, facing the printing drum 11 of the head in place.
  • the counter-roller shaft is parallel to the spindle, it is horizontal and rotatably mounted in rolling bearings in the base.
  • the drive mechanism of the printing counter roller 21 and the printing drum 11 is completely mounted in the base. It is coupled to the counter-roller shaft and to the spindle 22 for their suitable drive, according to the arrow 32 for the spindle and in the opposite direction for the counter-roller, on the basis of the signals coming from the control card 24.
  • the base 2 also carries a data entry and display set 35 for the operator, such as a keyboard and an associated display screen.
  • This assembly is mounted on the upper face of the base. It is coupled to the control card 24.
  • the wheel adjustment device according to the present invention is generally described with reference to FIG. 2.
  • control assembly 40 It comprises on the one hand a control assembly 40 and on the other hand, for the various knobs, sliding rods 41, of the rack type, and driven pinions 42.
  • the control assembly 40 is mounted in the base 2, while the sliding rods 41 and the driven pinions 42 belong to the head.
  • This control assembly is in an annular housing 43 defined around the sheath on the spindle, between the spacer 26 of the base and the front wall 2A having the access of the sheath 12 in the base. It constitutes in the base 2 an interface for controlling the adjustment of the knobs of the head 1 and is thus called hereinafter.
  • In the base it receives its adjustment control signals from the control card 24, by a connection card 34.
  • This connection card 34 is mounted on one of the walls delimiting the housing 43 of the control interface, it is connected by connections, with slack, where the interface 40. It also connects the control card 24 to the aforementioned connector 28.
  • the control interface 40 is described with reference to FIG. 2 and / or FIG. 3. It includes a set 45 of motors M and a same set 46 of driving pinions in cascade, with a cascade of driving pinions per motor. Each cascade is formed here of three driving pinions, engaged between them and driven by their individual motor, one 46A motor, and another intermediate 46B and the third 46C for one of the sliding rods.
  • the number of individual motors and cascades of driving pinions 46 is advantageously less than that of the wheels, or driven sprockets or sliding rods of the head 1. It is preferably chosen equal to the number of franking wheels or date wheels, or six for one or the other of the two groups of knobs assigned to these two functions. The six motors and the six gable cascades then simultaneously control the wheels of the same function.
  • control interface can be a single motor with its cascade of driving pinions associated, for the control one by one of the different knobs.
  • control interface can be three motors with the three cascades of driving pinions associated with it, for the two-time control of the six postage or date dials.
  • the control interface 40 is mounted oscillating in its housing 43 around the sleeve on the spindle. It is controlled in angular position around the sheath then kept at rest, from orientation control signals from the control card 24.
  • a semi-annular groove 44 on the rear part of the sheath provides clearance for the driving pinions 46C when ordering. The profile of this groove corresponds to three pinion teeth driving 46C.
  • the control interface is mounted on a hub 50 centered on the sleeve on the spindle.
  • the hub is carried by the spacer 26 and guided in rotation by a plain bearing 51.
  • Six support parts 52P1 to P6 or support plates, fixed to this hub, carry the six motors M and the six cascade of pinions 46. They are further fixed opposite the hub 50 on a flange 53 forming a widely projecting appendage on a centering ring 54.
  • the vertical shoulder of the hub 50 parallel to the front and rear walls of the base and substantially against the spacer 26, forms a toothed ring 55, with teeth 55A.
  • This semi-peripheral toothing does not allow complete rotation of the motors and cascaded pinions.
  • a pinion 56 is engaged on the teeth 55A. It is mounted on the shaft of a motor 57, called the angular position control motor, connected to the control card 24 and mounted behind the spacer 26.
  • the driven pinions 42 are directly mounted on the axis of the various knurls to which they are individually assigned.
  • the sliding rack rods are identical to each other. They are described with reference to Figures 2 and 3.
  • the sliding rods 41 defining between them groups corresponding to the groups of rollers. These rods or their racks are designated in Figure 3 by the letter A, D or S accompanying their numerical reference depending on whether they relate to the postage or date dials or additional dials specified below.
  • the sliding rods are between them at the same pitch p, on the other hand two consecutive rods belonging to two different groups are preferably separated by a distance d greater than the pitch p.
  • three additional pairs defined by three additional driven pinions, identical to the other pinions, and their three additional sliding rods, also identical to the other sliding rods, are provided in the adjustment device, for the execution of additional specific functions. from the same control interface 40.
  • the three additional knobs are mounted on the printing drum, where they each play the role of an automatic actuating member of the corresponding element to retract or put in its printing position or the 'one of its different possible printing positions.
  • This layout is defined with regard to the fan arrangement of the sliding rods 41 or of their racks 62, in order to obtain a minimum bulk and modularity of the control interface 40. It is described by considering the pinions attack 46C of the six cascades engaged on the six racks 62 of the same group.
  • the six support pieces 52P1 to P6 are planar and arranged in a fan shape, presenting between them a plane of symmetry P. Each of them is parallel to one of the racks 62. Each defines the bearing plane of the corresponding motor M and the fixing plane of the axes of the cascade of driving pinions 46A to C for this motor M, the cascade of driving pinions being brought back in the plane of the rack concerned.
  • the cascades 46 of leading gables are thus themselves distributed over fan-shaped planes, with constant pitch between them. They are two by two symmetrical with respect to the plane P.
  • the arrangement of the driving pinions in their plane and of the cascades from one plane to the other is carried out in order to obtain a coupling chain between each motor M and the rack concerned 62, as short as possible with less bulk.
  • the symmetrical motors M1 and M3 and the symmetrical motors M4 and M6 are arranged in the same plane transverse to their individual support planes, and the motors M2 and M5 in a another plane transverse to their support plates.
  • the driving pinions 46C1 to C6 of the cascades are relatively small and identical, they are one after the other in the step of the racks and come into engagement with the respective racks 62 of the same function for their control.
  • the driving pinions 46A1 to A6 are also identical to each other.
  • the intermediate pinions 46B1 to B6 are two by two identical, they have suitable diameters for coupling each drive pinion to their corresponding drive pinion.
  • the motors M1 to M6 are stepper motors, with a motor pitch which is a sub-multiple of the pitch of the racks, or DC motors.
  • FIG. 6 The operation of the adjustment device is illustrated in FIG. 6.
  • PA, PD and PS the three positions of the plane of symmetry of the control interface, for the three adjustment orientations of the franking and adjustment wheels.
  • date and adjustment wheels of the additional wheels obtained by driving the toothed crown 55 of the hub 50 around the sheath 12.
  • PI shows the so-called orientation of insertion of the head on the base, to which the control interface, is opposite the barrel sector without racks.
  • the insertion of the head on the base, for the position Pl, the postage value, date and additional means settings, for the positions PA, PD and PS are carried out with the sheath 12 held in the rest position . This rest position is translated by the position of the flat 11 A of the drum, illustrated in thick dashed lines.

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FR9010064A FR2665782B1 (fr) 1990-08-07 1990-08-07 Dispositif de reglage de molettes d'impression dans un machine a affranchir.

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