EP1004990A1 - Verschiebungsvorrichtung für den Druck von Postwertzeichen - Google Patents

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EP1004990A1
EP1004990A1 EP99402829A EP99402829A EP1004990A1 EP 1004990 A1 EP1004990 A1 EP 1004990A1 EP 99402829 A EP99402829 A EP 99402829A EP 99402829 A EP99402829 A EP 99402829A EP 1004990 A1 EP1004990 A1 EP 1004990A1
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Jean-Pierre Gregoire
Thierry Le Jaoudour
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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
    • G07B17/00467—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
    • G07B2017/00516—Details of printing apparatus
    • G07B2017/00556—Ensuring quality of print
    • G07B2017/00564—Ensuring correct position of print on mailpiece
    • 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
    • G07B17/00661—Sensing or measuring mailpieces
    • G07B2017/00669—Sensing the position of 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
    • G07B17/00661—Sensing or measuring mailpieces
    • G07B2017/00685—Measuring the dimensions of mailpieces

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  • the present invention relates to the field of treatment of mail and relates more particularly to a device intended, in a mail processing machine, to ensure an imprint offset postal printed on a mail item, according to the characteristics dimensions, and in particular of thickness, of this article.
  • a mail processing machine must be suitable for receiving different types of mail items such as documents, labels, folds or envelopes with very large dimensions different with more or less important lengths and thicknesses.
  • US Patent 4,638,732 issued in 1987 shows a processing machine mail in which a printing position of the postal imprint relative to the front of a mail item is determined based on the speed of movement of this article in the machine, measured from two sensors spaced a fixed distance apart and placed on the path transport of mail items.
  • This reference position is fixed a once and for all by the machine control means.
  • the more mail items are thicker plus the postal imprint area at near the front of the mail item is subject to distortion.
  • a keyboard with two keys to allow movement by increment, forward or backward, of this reference position is expected to take into account a possible variation in thickness of the articles of mail.
  • the object of the present invention is to propose an improved device allowing an automatic shift of the postal imprint printed on mail items.
  • An object of the invention is in particular to produce a particularly simple and reliable device and in particular which does not impose a modification of the print impression control cycle on the contrary to the first request of the plaintiff.
  • a device for shifting a postal imprint in a mail processing machine comprising means for detecting a front of a mail item, means for printing a postal imprint on this mail item and command and control means, advantageously with a microprocessor, connected on the one hand to said detection means and on the other hand to said printing means for controlling the printing of said postal imprint on said mail item in function of a standard offset ⁇ 0 predetermined from the detection of said front of the mailpiece, characterized in that said means for detecting a front of the mailpiece include means for delaying the detection of the front of the mail item as a function of the thickness of the mail item determined from said means for detecting a front of a mail item.
  • these detection means can both detect a front of an envelope than that of a label front.
  • said detection means comprise a lever in the form of a swan neck with an upper convex part which ends in a detection end and a lower concave part which ends in a palpation end, an axis of rotation of the lever being located substantially at the junction of these two parts.
  • Said palpation end is provided with an impact zone cooperating with said front of the mailpiece and which has a sloping profile which descends from a predetermined depth h below the level corresponding to an upper surface of this article of mail defined by an upper reference plate of the transport path of mail items.
  • said impact zone is formed of a flat inclined by about 45 ° relative to the horizontal.
  • the invention also relates to a device for detecting a front a mail item in a mail processing machine comprising a lever in the form of a swan neck with a convex part upper which ends with a detection end and a part lower concave which ends with a palpation end, an axis of rotation of the lever being located substantially at the junction of these two parts.
  • the palpation end is provided with an impact zone having a sloping profile intended to cooperate with said front of the article of mail.
  • the invention also relates to a method for shifting a postal imprint in a mail processing machine comprising firstly, from means for detecting a front of a mail item, a first step of detection of an edge of a mail item then, from command and control means connected to said detection means, a second step of developing a standard offset ⁇ 0 predetermined from the detection of said edge d '' a mail item and, from printing means connected to said command and control means, a third step of printing the postal imprint on the mail item, characterized in that the detection of the front of the mail item produced in said first step is delayed as a function of dimensional characteristics of the mail item determined from said means for detecting a front of the mail item.
  • These dimensional characteristics are advantageously constituted by the different thicknesses of the selected mail items.
  • Figure 1 illustrates very schematically the different components of a mail processing machine. This comprises, in the direction of advancement of the mail items 10 and along a transport path 12, a device 14 for supplying mail items intended to receive a stack of mail items of variable dimensional characteristics and in particular of different thicknesses and which comprises motorized drive rollers 140, 142, a selection device 16 for individually selecting each mail item from the stack and which comprises selection rollers and counter rollers 160, 162, a selection device upstream conveying 18 for conveying each selected item and which comprises upstream conveying rollers and counter-rollers 180, 182, a franking device 20 for printing a postal imprint on each item of mail previously selected and which advantageously comprises an inkjet printing module 200, a downstream conveying device 22 for conveying each franked item i and which comprises rollers and counter-rollers for downstream conveying 220, 222, and a device 24 for storing mail items intended to receive all of the printed articles and which comprises motorized drive rollers 240, 242.
  • a device 14 for supplying mail
  • this mail processing machine furthermore comprises command and control means (more particularly with microprocessor 26) for managing the printing and routing of mail items in the machine along the transport path 12.
  • Means 28 for detecting the front of a mail item from which the printing of the postal imprint is synchronized (as a function of a predetermined standard offset ⁇ 0 defining a reference position for printing) is connected to these command and control means.
  • This machine can also include a label dispenser (not shown) then provided with its own means for detecting the front of a label.
  • the command and control means and the selection, conveying and franking devices can be arranged in a single module 30 such as that which will now be described with reference to FIG. 2.
  • a distributor of labels 34 mounted on the body of module 32 and comprising a roller 340 for the labels drive comes to be embedded between the counter-roller 162 and the upstream conveying counter roller 182 such that an outlet channel 342 from the labels of this distributor joins the transport path 12 just upstream of the counter roller upstream conveying 182.
  • the path transport is formed on its upper part by an upper plate of reference 36 on which the articles of mail are plated for their impression.
  • This module of the mail processing machine includes the means 28 for detecting a front of a mail item which, according to the invention may as well be an envelope extracted from the device 14 then selected individually by the selection 16 as a label coming directly from the distributor 34.
  • detection means consist essentially of a lever 280 which can pivot, like a swing, about an axis of rotation 282 and whose two ends are integral, on either side of the path transport 12, of a fixed part of the module (for example the module body 32 or preferably the label dispenser 34).
  • the lever has two opposite ends: on the one hand, a palpation end 284 intended for come in contact directly with the mail item and secondly a detection end 286 intended to cooperate with a type detector optics 288 (for example a conventional fork detector OPB N ° 360L55 from OPTEK) to supply the control circuit and control 26 a signal representative of the detection of the front of the article of mail passing under the opposite end of palpation.
  • a type detector optics 288 for example a conventional fork detector OPB N ° 360L55 from OPTEK
  • the axis of rotation of the lever is surrounded by a helical return spring 290 intended to ensure perfect plating of the palpation end of the lever on the articles of mail even when processing thin mail, for example example less than 1 mm as a label.
  • Figure 3 is a sectional view of the label dispenser substantially in the plane of its drive roller 340.
  • the lever 280 being able to pivot about its axis 282, the two ends of which are connected to cheeks or walls 342, 344 of the label dispenser 34, which lever is subjected to the restoring force of the spring 290.
  • the optical detection fork 288 intended for receive the detection end 286 of the lever 280.
  • This optical fork is mounted on an electronic detection circuit 350 integral with the distributor comprising conventional means of acquisition and processing optical signals electrically connected to the control circuit and control 26 of the mail processing machine.
  • this modification of the print order cycle is not obtained by adding to the predetermined standard offset ⁇ 0 (corresponding to a mail item of minimum thickness, ie 0.2 mm) an additional offset determined as a function of the thickness of the mailpiece, which necessarily requires modifying the command and control means 26, as proposed by the above-mentioned application FR97 01054, but simply by delaying the emission of the signal representative of the detection of the edge of the the mail item, this delay being obtained by modifying the structure of the detector of the front of the mail item 28.
  • the command and control means are not modified, the printing remaining carried out from the standard offset predetermined.
  • the lever 280 therefore provides both a front article detection function and a mail function detection of its thickness.
  • the lever a perspective view of which is presented in FIG. 4 has a substantially swan neck shape with a convex part upper which ends with the detection end 286 and a part lower concave which ends with the palpation end 284, the axis of rotation of the lever being located substantially at the junction of these two parts.
  • the palpation end is provided with an impact zone 292 cooperating with the front edge of the mail item (envelope or label) and which has a sloping profile. (formed for example by a flat inclined about 45 ° with respect to the horizontal) which descends from a predetermined depth h below the level corresponding to the upper surface of this mail item defined by the upper reference plate 36.
  • this depth can be estimated to be about 4 at 5 mm.
  • a range of different thicknesses for example from 0 to 25mm, it would be necessary to adopt an equally different depth.
  • a) is shown a thin envelope, for example 2mm, for which the detection of the front of the envelope corresponds to that of the real front of the envelope.
  • the command to print the postal imprint is conventionally triggered after a standard offset ⁇ 0 predetermined.

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FR9814756A FR2786295B1 (fr) 1998-11-24 1998-11-24 Dispositif de decalage d'empreinte postale
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