EP1510480A1 - Dispositif anti-biais pour machine de traitement de courrier - Google Patents
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- EP1510480A1 EP1510480A1 EP04292077A EP04292077A EP1510480A1 EP 1510480 A1 EP1510480 A1 EP 1510480A1 EP 04292077 A EP04292077 A EP 04292077A EP 04292077 A EP04292077 A EP 04292077A EP 1510480 A1 EP1510480 A1 EP 1510480A1
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- the present invention relates exclusively to the field of the treatment of mail and it concerns more particularly a device to avoid the setting in mail items when they are introduced into a mail machine. mail processing.
- the anti-bias (or anti-roll) function is performed by the device jogging of mail items that acts directly on the positioning lateral mail items.
- this function is not provided with efficiency only if the tapped mail items are of the same size. Indeed, in the case of mail of different sizes (bulk mail), this jogging is done on mail items with the largest dimensions. It then results for items with smaller dimensions a possibility of putting in a non-negligible bias.
- the present invention therefore aims to overcome this disadvantage with a avoiding this bias, especially when the supply of bulk mail items.
- An object of the invention is also to propose a device easily adaptable to different formats of articles of mail resulting from separate postal standards without any particular modification of its structure.
- Another object of the invention is to propose a device integration into a traditional mail processing machine is easy to realize without having to redefine the general architecture of this machine.
- an anti-bias device for mail having a receiving tray for receiving in a stack of articles the mail items to be printed, a jogging means for jogging that pile of articles against a referencing wall, a selection means for extract one by one from this pile of articles the mail items to print and a means of printing to print a postal imprint on the mail item selected, characterized in that it comprises a plurality of retractable members each positioned at a determined distance from said referencing wall and whose first end extends through an opening in said receiving plate for forming a lateral obstacle above said plate removable for mail items.
- the determined distances each correspond to an envelope width of different format.
- said first end has a shape triangular.
- the number of openings in the receiving tray can to be greater than the number of retractable organs.
- the anti-bias device for mail processing comprises retractable members constituted by at least two pivoting levers.
- the pivoting levers are articulated on a common shaft secured to a chassis of the processing machine of mail via a support bar and each of said levers swivels comprises a second end connected to a solid elastic element of this support bar.
- a traditional mail processing machine is illustrated in Figure 4. It conventionally comprises from upstream to downstream (in relation to the meaning of moving mail items through the machine): a post 10 provided with a receiving tray 12 on which are placed in one homogeneous compact pile or not (depending on whether these items are of the same size or not) mail items to be printed, training rolls 14 and jogging means (advantageously lateral 16 and / or rear) of these articles of mail against a referencing wall 18; a selection station 20 for extract one by one from the bottom of the stack the mail items to print; and one 22 print station to print a postal imprint on the article of mail so selected.
- the lateral jogging means guarantee these items of mail always correct positioning on the means of selection, it's up to say with a front position of each mail item perpendicular by referred to the referencing wall.
- the position of its front may have an angle ⁇ relative to the perpendicular to this wall, so that the selection that is made is crooked and the resulting impression can then be greatly degraded.
- These means formed of retractable members comprise a plurality of anti-bias levers 32 (for example three in number as illustrated) articulated on a common shaft 34 mounted transversely to the direction advanced mail items and secured at both ends of the chassis of the mail processing machine, more precisely the receiving tray of the feeding station, via a support bar 36.
- each pivoting lever that presents substantially a general shape of gooseneck comprises a first part triangular end 32A intended to pass through an opening 12A made in the reception tray to define above this reception tray a removable side obstacle for mail items.
- a second part end is attached to a first end of an elastic element 38 whose other end is secured of the support bar.
- This elastic element is adjusted so as not to hinder the movement of mail items and thus to fade under the weight of a mail item whose width exceeds the wall distance of referencing / leveraging while effectively preventing the skewing of a article of mail whose width corresponds to this distance from the placing wall in reference to the lever by providing a removable lateral jogging element for this article.
- each lever 32 is positioned relative to the wall of bet in reference 18 to a distance corresponding precisely to a width envelope of a specific format and different for each lever.
- levers For example, if we refer to the postal standards in force in Europe, we can plan to place levers at the following three distances: 114mm, 125mm and 140mm mm corresponding to the three standard formats known as C6, B6 and E6. Similar references also exist in the United States. Good understood, these values are given for illustrative purposes only and any other combination of standard formats is possible. It will also be noted that practicing additional openings 12B in sufficient number, it is possible to have a universal device adaptable to both the standard than the American standard, the configuration implemented being then defined by the number (then less than the number of openings) and the location levers available in the machine.
- mail items stored loose on the receiving tray 12 can be extracted one by one while being properly maintained against the reference wall 18.
- the larger mail items dimension tel 40 (defining the width of the stack) are correctly tapped by the jogging means 16
- the article referenced 42 is also but by the third lever, the first and second levers then being erased.
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Claims (8)
- Dispositif anti-biais pour machine de traitement de courrier comportant un plateau de réception (12) pour recevoir en une pile d'articles les articles de courrier à imprimer, un moyen de taquage (16) pour taquer cette pile d'articles contre une paroi de mise en référence (18), un moyen de sélection (20) pour extraire un à un de cette pile d'articles les articles de courrier à imprimer et un moyen d'impression (22) pour imprimer une empreinte postale sur l'article de courrier sélectionné, caractérisé en ce qu'il comporte une pluralité d'organes escamotables (32) positionnés chacun à une distance déterminée de ladite paroi de mise en référence et dont une première extrémité s'étend au travers d'une ouverture (12A) pratiquée dans ledit plateau de réception pour former au dessus dudit plateau un obstacle latéral amovible pour les articles de courrier.
- Dispositif anti-biais pour machine de traitement de courrier selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que lesdites distances déterminées correspondent chacune à une largeur d'enveloppe de format différent.
- Dispositif anti-biais pour machine de traitement de courrier selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que ladite première extrémité présente une forme triangulaire (32A).
- Dispositif anti-biais pour machine de traitement de courrier selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le nombre d'ouvertures (12A, 12B) pratiquées dans le plateau de réception est supérieur au nombre d'organes escamotables.
- Dispositif anti-biais pour machine de traitement de courrier selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les organes escamotables sont constitués par des leviers pivotants (32).
- Dispositif anti-biais pour machine de traitement de courrier selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce qu'il comporte au moins deux leviers pivotants.
- Dispositif anti-biais pour machine de traitement de courrier selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce que lesdits leviers pivotants sont articulés sur un arbre commun (34) solidaire d'un châssis de la machine de traitement de courrier par l'intermédiaire d'une barre-support (36).
- Dispositif anti-biais pour machine de traitement de courrier selon la revendication 7, caractérisé en ce que chacun desdits leviers pivotants comporte une seconde extrémité reliée à un élément élastique (38) de cette barre-support.
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| FR0310125 | 2003-08-25 | ||
| FR0310125A FR2859195B1 (fr) | 2003-08-25 | 2003-08-25 | Dispositif anti-biais pour machine de traitement de courrier |
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| EP1510480A1 true EP1510480A1 (fr) | 2005-03-02 |
| EP1510480B1 EP1510480B1 (fr) | 2008-05-14 |
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| EP (1) | EP1510480B1 (fr) |
| DE (1) | DE602004013688D1 (fr) |
| FR (1) | FR2859195B1 (fr) |
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| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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| FR2941443A1 (fr) * | 2009-01-29 | 2010-07-30 | Neopost Technologies | Bac de stockage d'articles de courrier |
| US9790044B2 (en) | 2015-05-07 | 2017-10-17 | Francotyp-Postalia Gmbh | Placement station for placing flat items and feeding them to a singularization station and method |
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| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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| FR2926541B1 (fr) | 2008-01-17 | 2010-03-26 | Neopost Technologies | Dispositif de taquage automatique d'articles de courrier |
| DE202016106124U1 (de) | 2016-11-01 | 2016-11-17 | Francotyp-Postalia Gmbh | Vereinzelungsstation |
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| US3356364A (en) * | 1965-07-12 | 1967-12-05 | Ciba Ltd | Feed catch for apparatus handling sheet material |
| JPS6012427A (ja) * | 1983-06-30 | 1985-01-22 | Canon Inc | トレイ装置 |
| EP0590285A1 (fr) * | 1992-08-31 | 1994-04-06 | Laurel Bank Machines Co., Ltd. | Dispositif d'alimentation de feuilles |
| US6523822B1 (en) * | 1999-10-01 | 2003-02-25 | Neopost Industrie | Aligning device for document feeder |
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| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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| US3356364A (en) * | 1965-07-12 | 1967-12-05 | Ciba Ltd | Feed catch for apparatus handling sheet material |
| JPS6012427A (ja) * | 1983-06-30 | 1985-01-22 | Canon Inc | トレイ装置 |
| EP0590285A1 (fr) * | 1992-08-31 | 1994-04-06 | Laurel Bank Machines Co., Ltd. | Dispositif d'alimentation de feuilles |
| US6523822B1 (en) * | 1999-10-01 | 2003-02-25 | Neopost Industrie | Aligning device for document feeder |
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| PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN vol. 009, no. 128 (M - 384) 4 June 1985 (1985-06-04) * |
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| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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| FR2941443A1 (fr) * | 2009-01-29 | 2010-07-30 | Neopost Technologies | Bac de stockage d'articles de courrier |
| EP2213597A3 (fr) * | 2009-01-29 | 2011-11-02 | Neopost Technologies | Bac de stockage d'articles de courrier |
| US8662497B2 (en) | 2009-01-29 | 2014-03-04 | Neopost Technologies | Storage tray for storing mailpieces |
| US9790044B2 (en) | 2015-05-07 | 2017-10-17 | Francotyp-Postalia Gmbh | Placement station for placing flat items and feeding them to a singularization station and method |
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| FR2859195B1 (fr) | 2005-11-25 |
| DE602004013688D1 (de) | 2008-06-26 |
| EP1510480B1 (fr) | 2008-05-14 |
| FR2859195A1 (fr) | 2005-03-04 |
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