EP0855683A1 - Kompakte Frankiermaschine mit besondere transportbahn - Google Patents

Kompakte Frankiermaschine mit besondere transportbahn Download PDF

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EP0855683A1
EP0855683A1 EP98400121A EP98400121A EP0855683A1 EP 0855683 A1 EP0855683 A1 EP 0855683A1 EP 98400121 A EP98400121 A EP 98400121A EP 98400121 A EP98400121 A EP 98400121A EP 0855683 A1 EP0855683 A1 EP 0855683A1
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Jean-Pierre Gregoire
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Quadient Technologies France SA
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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
    • G07B17/00467—Transporting 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
    • 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
    • G07B2017/00612—Attaching item on mailpiece
    • G07B2017/0062—Label
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/17—Surface bonding means and/or assemblymeans with work feeding or handling means
    • Y10T156/1702—For plural parts or plural areas of single part
    • Y10T156/1744—Means bringing discrete articles into assembled relationship
    • Y10T156/1768—Means simultaneously conveying plural articles from a single source and serially presenting them to an assembly station
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/17—Surface bonding means and/or assemblymeans with work feeding or handling means
    • Y10T156/1702—For plural parts or plural areas of single part
    • Y10T156/1744—Means bringing discrete articles into assembled relationship
    • Y10T156/1776—Means separating articles from bulk source
    • Y10T156/1778—Stacked sheet source

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  • the present invention relates to the exclusive field of mail processing. It relates more particularly to a franking can handle stacks of large mail items dimensions in a reduced volume.
  • the present invention relates to a machine for processing mail allowing the processing of a large capacity of mail items while having a particularly small footprint compared to that machines of the prior art.
  • Another object of the invention is to integrate to this machine a label dispenser without increasing the size.
  • a mail processing machine comprising a base, a station for supplying mail items and a storage station for these articles after processing in the base, this base having a printhead for printing fingerprints on mail items from a post office store feed and conveyor rollers to transport these items, along a transportation path from this base to a post store storage, command and control means, means display and processing means being further provided for the management of this machine, machine characterized in that said path transport of the base is inclined at a determined angle with respect to the horizontal, between a few degrees, preferably 10 °, and a few tens of degrees, preferably 30 °.
  • the inclination of the transport path thus optimizes the size of the processing machine for stack heights of important mail.
  • the mail item supply station store can rotate around a hinge pin to give it a tilt determined with respect to the horizontal.
  • This tilt of the store supply is between 0 ° and a few tens of degrees, from preferably 30 °.
  • the inclination of the food store corresponds to that of the transport path from the base of the machine.
  • the base of the machine may have a label dispenser arranged as close as possible to the print head under it, without the initial size of this base is in no way modified by this addition.
  • the journey made by the labels in the base is considerably simplified.
  • Figure 2 shows a free from the prior art.
  • This includes, on a work table 2 to height of the operator, a base 4 preceded by a station 6 for supplying mail items and followed by a post 8 storing these items after treatment.
  • the base 4 of the franking machine conventionally comprises a print head 42 intended for printing the postal imprints on the mail items from a store 62 at feed station 6.
  • These articles are conveyed along a transport path 44 from the base of machine 4 first towards the print head 42 then towards a store 82 of the storage station 8 by conveyor rollers 46.
  • a postal label dispenser 48 on each of which an imprint postal can be affixed by the print head and which includes a reel 50 is provided at the base of the machine franking, generally on its upper part or on its rear part, counts given the particularly bulky appearance of such a dispenser (it will be noted that due to this external arrangement the path of the labels is rendered complex and particularly sinuous).
  • this base includes also a command and control keyboard 52 and means display 54 intended to cooperate with processing means, by example with microprocessor 56, for managing the operation of the machine.
  • Figure 1 schematically illustrates a mail processing, or franking machine, according to the invention, the power and storage capacity is improved and which, moreover, allows to get rid of the external realization of a label dispenser.
  • This machine has, as before, on a table work 10 at operator level, a base 12 preceded by a station 14 supply of mail items and followed by a station 16 for storing these items after processing.
  • the base 12 of the franking machine comprises conventionally a print head 120 intended for printing the imprints on mail items from a 140 post store 14. These items are conveyed along a path transport 122 from the base of the machine first to the print head 120 then to a store 160 of the storage station 16 by rolls of conveyor 124.
  • the base also includes a keyboard for controlling and control 126 and display means 128 intended to cooperate with processing means, for example with microprocessor 130, for management machine operation.
  • the path 122 for transporting mail items is tilted from the horizontal at an acute angle determined between a few degrees (at least 10 °) and a few tens of degrees (at most 30 °) so that it is possible to accommodate directly under the print head 120 a reel 132 of a distributor of postal labels without having to change the size initial of the machine.
  • the inclination of the path transport to limit the overall dimensions of the machine while increasing its capacity to supply and store mail items.
  • the food store 140 can now be installed directly on the work table 10 on which the base of the machine, which does not increase the total height of the machine despite the considerable height that the stack of articles can therefore present mail to be processed.
  • storage store 160 now presents a higher inlet, which increases the capacity accordingly.
  • the store supply 140 can pivot around a hinge pin 142 for allow the stack of mail items it contains to tilt.
  • This inclination is preferably between 0 ° and a few tens of degree, advantageously 30 °, and it can correspond to the inclination of the transport path.

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FR9700760A FR2758763B1 (fr) 1997-01-24 1997-01-24 Machine compacte de traitement de courrier a chemin de transport particulier
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