EP1046138A1 - Machine d'affranchissement compacte a jet d'encre et a insertion manuelle - Google Patents
Machine d'affranchissement compacte a jet d'encre et a insertion manuelleInfo
- Publication number
- EP1046138A1 EP1046138A1 EP99939490A EP99939490A EP1046138A1 EP 1046138 A1 EP1046138 A1 EP 1046138A1 EP 99939490 A EP99939490 A EP 99939490A EP 99939490 A EP99939490 A EP 99939490A EP 1046138 A1 EP1046138 A1 EP 1046138A1
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- EP
- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- rake
- plate
- machine according
- envelope
- printing
- Prior art date
- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
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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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- 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
- G07B2017/00532—Inkjet
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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
- G07B2017/00516—Details of printing apparatus
- G07B2017/00556—Ensuring quality of print
- G07B2017/00564—Ensuring correct position of print on mailpiece
Definitions
- the present invention relates to a machine affixing, thanks to an ink jet printing device, a franking mark on a flat object such as an envelope or a label, and more specifically relates to such a manual insertion machine.
- the envelopes are generally driven inside the machine by a conveyor device such as an endless belt, along a path from an entry station to a exit station through the printing station. This is not the case in a manual desktop insertion machine, where the user partially engages the envelope in an insertion opening of the machine; the envelope receives the postage mark, after which the user manually removes the envelope.
- a machine marketed under the name Personal Post Office TM by the company Pitney Bowes is known for a machine for franking flat objects, such as an envelope or a label, of the following type: the machine comprises in a chassis, a opening for manual insertion of an object leading to two stops at a right angle, a device for holding an object by pinching between a fixed upper ceiling comprising a window and a lower plate movable vertically by a drive mechanism, a device for inkjet printing with nozzles arranged inside the window of said ceiling, and an object presence sensor in the vicinity of the angle of the stops triggering the plate drive mechanism for pinching the object and the printing cycle.
- Printing is done in one pass from the print head (in a reference direction which will be called longitudinal); to allow this single pass, the head is specific and has non-standard dimensions allowing it to transversely cover the entire area to be franked at once.
- the need for a special printhead increases the cost price of the machine.
- the invention aims to overcome these drawbacks and to provide a compact and simple machine accommodating standard print heads.
- This object is achieved according to the invention thanks to a franking machine of the aforementioned type, in which there is provided a device for transversely moving the object in front of the printing device, even while the object is pinched.
- This transverse displacement device which has only a relatively small amplitude of path to be produced, is advantageously a horizontally movable rake whose teeth pass through one (longitudinal) of said stops to push transversely the edge of a detected object.
- the rake is advantageously driven by a motor, preferably through a screw-nut system.
- This motor is preferably independent of that which equips the printer for the longitudinal movements of the print head.
- the vertical movement of the plate is advantageously carried out in one direction thanks to the same rake drive motor and thanks to antagonistic springs in the opposite direction.
- the springs act in the direction of the pinching of the object, and their force is calculated to be able to pinch the document slightly without opposing the transverse displacement imposed by the rake.
- the movement of the plate is effected by means of the movement of the rake.
- the tray and the rake are preferably linked by at least one flexible tie.
- the machine of the invention operates in the following manner.
- the tray being in the retracted position, the user introduces the object to be franked into the insertion opening until it stops, so that the top right corner of the object is detected by the sensor which triggers the next cycle.
- the rake engine rotates and drives on the one hand the advance of the rake, the teeth of which are always at the rear of the longitudinal stop, and on the other hand the rise of the plate by the springs, until the object is pinched, then pressed against the reference ceiling.
- the plate comes to a standstill while the rake continues to advance and comes to push through its teeth, which penetrate through the longitudinal stop, the object so as to first straighten it if necessary, then, in successive steps coordinated with the printing passes, to make him receive the postage mark.
- the rake motor rotates in the opposite direction so that the rake is withdrawn and causes the tray to descend, which frees the envelope which can be taken up by the user.
- the machine of the invention therefore allows contactless printing by ink jet on supports of varying thicknesses and dimensions with the following guarantees:
- the holding device makes it possible to treat objects having variable thicknesses
- the movement device allows the treatment of objects of variable dimensions, the same machine processing both small labels or envelopes as large envelopes,
- the displacement device does not cause wrinkling on the external surfaces of the object during displacement so as not to degrade the print quality, thanks to a removal of the ceiling in front of the window provided in the tray.
- the device enables a franking mark to be printed in a specific area of the treated article.
- FIG. 1 is a side view in section of the device of the invention in the initial position, showing in particular the printing device and the object displacement system according to the invention,
- FIG. 2 is a partial top view of the same device of the invention showing in particular the displacement and compensation mechanisms (the printing system and the ceiling have been removed to improve the readability of the view),
- FIG. 3 is a front view in section of the same device of the invention, showing in particular the printing mechanisms and the displacement system according to the invention,
- FIG. 4 is a simplified representation similar to FIG. 2, showing on the one hand the various mechanisms at the end of the first phase of the movement cycle, and where the projection of the printing, support areas has been shown from the ceiling and removing the ceiling.
- FIGS. 5 and 6 are simplified representations similar to FIG. 1, showing the various mechanisms during the two elements displacement phases before printing.
- the franking machine comprises in a chassis consisting in particular of a lower shell 5, a standard ink jet head 1 associated with its drive motor l 'to be movable horizontally longitudinally (directions 22, 22') and having its nozzles 1 "arranged vertically downwards to define, during the movement of the head, a printing area 26 (cf. FIG. 4).
- the printing area 26 is surrounded by a rectangular window 2 'formed in a ceiling horizontal upper fixed 2 secured to the chassis, defining at least at the rear and possibly on the sides of said window 2 ′ an upper reference surface 27 (cf. FIGS. 1 and 4) against which the envelope will be pressed.
- the ceiling 2 forms, at the front of the window 2 ', a step 25 (cf. FIGS. 1 and 4) upwards for reasons given below.
- the nozzles 1 "overhang and face a part, possibly slightly in bowl te 3 "
- a horizontally movable longitudinal rake 4 is arranged at the rear of the printing area, parallel to the plate 3, to push an envelope 6, which has been manually inserted into the machine in the oblique direction 7, thanks to a horizontal opening of the machine forming two sides of a rectangle whose other two sides are materialized by abutment faces and rear longitudinal support 8 and transverse lateral support 9 belonging for example to the upper ceiling 2 and on which the inserted object 6 can be put in reference.
- the introduction of the envelope 6 is facilitated by flaring the edge of the opening formed by rounded 30 of the lower shell and cut sections 31 of the upper ceiling 2.
- the envelope 6 is oriented and positioned as follows: the face on which the franking mark will be printed is above in order to be vis-à-vis the upper ceiling 2, - the upper edge of the envelope 6 is in contact with the longitudinal support face 9.
- the detection of the referencing of the envelope 6 is ensured by an optical barrier 10 (optical cell) secured to the upper ceiling 2 placed in the area of intersection of the support faces 8 and 9.
- optical barrier 10 optical cell
- the lower plate 3 is an elongated rectangular plate, mounted vertically movable in the vertical directions 12 and 12', in the lower shell 5 thanks to vertical walls
- the mobile rake 4 is motorized by a motor 15 via a screw-nut system.
- the screw 16 is secured to the rotor of the motor 15.
- the nut 17 is secured to the movable rake 4.
- the movable rake 4 is guided by slides or vertical faces 18, 19 of the lower shell 5; it is movable in the transverse horizontal directions 20 and 20 '.
- the mobile rake 4 comprises three vertical teeth 21 which will be in contact with the upper edge of the envelope 6, in order to push the latter. These teeth are positioned and sized in order to correctly push all the standard formats of envelopes to be treated, as well as a label format.
- the rear face 8 comprises openings 28 for passage of the teeth 21, and the plate 3 comprises, at the rear, notches 29 in its bottom for their penetration.
- the printing cycle is triggered, after detection of the corner of an envelope by the optical barrier 10.
- the lower plate 3 which was in the low retracting position at the end of the previous cycle, goes up in direction 12, under the combined action of springs 11 and the freedom that it gives the tie rods 13 as the rake 4 advances, and presses the upper face of the envelope 6 against the reference face of the upper ceiling 2.
- the tie rods 13 relax.
- the teeth 21 which were first at the rear of the reference face 8 (FIG. 2) then arrive at the height of said reference face 8 as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5.
- the printing of the mark is obtained by an alternative combination of the conventional movements of displacement of the standard ink jet head 1 and of the envelope 6.
- the ink jet print head prints in the longitudinal direction 22.
- the envelope 6 is pushed in the transverse direction 23 by the teeth 21, thanks to the transmission of the rotational movement of the motor 15 to the rake in the direction 20 (identical to the direction 23).
- the number of passes to be made to print the entire franking mark is a function of the ratio of the franking mark width / printing width of the inkjet head. It is for example 6 if the franking mark is one inch (25.4 mm) wide and the head covers one sixth of an inch (4.23 mm) as usual.
- the reference face of the upper ceiling 2 is absent in the zone 25, which corresponds to the zone after printing and drying the ink deposited by the print head 1 in the previous pass.
- the mobile rake 4 moves back in the direction 20 'to a fixed stop 24.
- the mobile rake 4 tightens the flexible tie rods 13, and lowers the lower plate 3 in the direction 12' .
- the envelope 6 is released and can be removed manually.
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- Computer Security & Cryptography (AREA)
- Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
- General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
- Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
- Ink Jet (AREA)
- Accessory Devices And Overall Control Thereof (AREA)
- Devices For Checking Fares Or Tickets At Control Points (AREA)
- Making Paper Articles (AREA)
- Record Information Processing For Printing (AREA)
- Labeling Devices (AREA)
- Facsimile Heads (AREA)
- Particle Formation And Scattering Control In Inkjet Printers (AREA)
- Handling Of Sheets (AREA)
Description
Claims
Applications Claiming Priority (3)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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FR9811425A FR2783338B1 (fr) | 1998-09-14 | 1998-09-14 | Machine d'affranchissement compacte a jet d'encre et a insertion manuelle |
FR9811425 | 1998-09-14 | ||
PCT/FR1999/002028 WO2000016268A1 (fr) | 1998-09-14 | 1999-08-23 | Machine d'affranchissement compacte a jet d'encre et a insertion manuelle |
Publications (2)
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EP1046138A1 true EP1046138A1 (fr) | 2000-10-25 |
EP1046138B1 EP1046138B1 (fr) | 2007-10-17 |
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EP99939490A Expired - Lifetime EP1046138B1 (fr) | 1998-09-14 | 1999-08-23 | Machine d'affranchissement compacte a jet d'encre et a insertion manuelle |
Country Status (7)
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US (1) | US6408744B1 (fr) |
EP (1) | EP1046138B1 (fr) |
AT (1) | ATE376229T1 (fr) |
CA (1) | CA2306430C (fr) |
DE (1) | DE69937337T2 (fr) |
FR (1) | FR2783338B1 (fr) |
WO (1) | WO2000016268A1 (fr) |
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GB9902062D0 (en) * | 1999-01-29 | 1999-03-24 | Neopost Ltd | Mail location apparatus |
GB0030877D0 (en) * | 2000-12-18 | 2001-01-31 | Unilever Plc | Enhancement of air bleaching catalysts |
DE10146842B4 (de) * | 2001-09-24 | 2006-11-09 | Deutsche Post Ag | Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Bedrucken von Postsendungen |
PL2696996T3 (pl) * | 2011-04-13 | 2018-04-30 | Opex Corporation | Przyrząd do otwierania i sortowania kopert |
CN112533099B (zh) * | 2020-12-10 | 2022-06-17 | 东莞市茂顺纺织品有限公司 | 一种耳机套布料制作工艺 |
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US4872521A (en) * | 1987-12-18 | 1989-10-10 | Pitney Bowes Inc. | Platen module for a modular mailing machine |
US4882989A (en) * | 1989-02-08 | 1989-11-28 | Pitney Bowes Inc. | Mailing machine including improved sheet aligning means |
FR2649231B1 (fr) * | 1989-06-30 | 1991-09-13 | Alcatel Satmam | Machine de bureau d'expedition d'articles postaux |
US5640903A (en) * | 1995-12-29 | 1997-06-24 | Pitney Bowes Inc. | Method and apparatus for initiating printing and registering a mailpiece in a stand alone postage meter |
US5889535A (en) * | 1996-09-23 | 1999-03-30 | Pitney Bowes Inc. | Postage meter including an inkjet printer which has an ink-jet maintenance head translating transverse to the movement of the inkjet print head |
DE69708570T2 (de) * | 1996-09-23 | 2002-07-25 | Pitney Bowes Inc | Tintenstrahldrucker mit Vorrichtung zur Justierung eines Druckkopfes mit einem Erwartungssystem |
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- 1998-09-14 FR FR9811425A patent/FR2783338B1/fr not_active Expired - Fee Related
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1999
- 1999-08-23 WO PCT/FR1999/002028 patent/WO2000016268A1/fr active IP Right Grant
- 1999-08-23 AT AT99939490T patent/ATE376229T1/de not_active IP Right Cessation
- 1999-08-23 CA CA002306430A patent/CA2306430C/fr not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1999-08-23 EP EP99939490A patent/EP1046138B1/fr not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1999-08-23 DE DE69937337T patent/DE69937337T2/de not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1999-08-23 US US09/530,142 patent/US6408744B1/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
Non-Patent Citations (1)
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DE69937337T2 (de) | 2008-07-17 |
CA2306430A1 (fr) | 2000-03-23 |
FR2783338A1 (fr) | 2000-03-17 |
ATE376229T1 (de) | 2007-11-15 |
US6408744B1 (en) | 2002-06-25 |
DE69937337D1 (de) | 2007-11-29 |
EP1046138B1 (fr) | 2007-10-17 |
FR2783338B1 (fr) | 2000-11-17 |
WO2000016268A1 (fr) | 2000-03-23 |
CA2306430C (fr) | 2007-04-24 |
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