EP1510480A1 - Ausrichteinrichtung für ein Postbearbeitungssystem - 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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mail
processing machine
mail processing
bias device
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Jean-Pierre Gregoire
Alain Multignier
Roman Rackwitz
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Quadient Technologies France SA
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H3/00—Separating articles from piles
    • B65H3/66—Article guides or smoothers, e.g. movable in operation
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H1/00—Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated
    • B65H1/04—Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated adapted to support articles substantially horizontally, e.g. for separation from top of pile
    • B65H1/06—Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated adapted to support articles substantially horizontally, e.g. for separation from top of pile for separation from bottom of pile
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/20—Continuous handling processes
    • B65H2301/22—Continuous handling processes of material of different characteristics
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/30—Orientation, displacement, position of the handled material
    • B65H2301/36—Positioning; Changing position
    • B65H2301/361—Positioning; Changing position during displacement
    • B65H2301/3613—Lateral positioning
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/30—Orientation, displacement, position of the handled material
    • B65H2301/36—Positioning; Changing position
    • B65H2301/362—Positioning; Changing position of stationary material
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/30—Orientation, displacement, position of the handled material
    • B65H2301/36—Positioning; Changing position
    • B65H2301/363—Positioning; Changing position of material in pile
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2404/00—Parts for transporting or guiding the handled material
    • B65H2404/70—Other elements in edge contact with handled material, e.g. registering, orientating, guiding devices
    • B65H2404/74—Guiding means
    • B65H2404/741—Guiding means movable in operation
    • B65H2404/7414—Guiding means movable in operation pivotable
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2405/00—Parts for holding the handled material
    • B65H2405/10—Cassettes, holders, bins, decks, trays, supports or magazines for sheets stacked substantially horizontally
    • B65H2405/11—Parts and details thereof
    • B65H2405/111—Bottom
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2511/00—Dimensions; Position; Numbers; Identification; Occurrences
    • B65H2511/10—Size; Dimensions
    • B65H2511/12—Width
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/10—Handled articles or webs
    • B65H2701/19—Specific article or web
    • B65H2701/1916—Envelopes and articles of mail

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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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FR0310125A FR2859195B1 (fr) 2003-08-25 2003-08-25 Dispositif anti-biais pour machine de traitement de courrier
FR0310125 2003-08-25

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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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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
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EP0590285A1 (de) * 1992-08-31 1994-04-06 Laurel Bank Machines Co., Ltd. Blattfördervorrichtung
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FR2941443A1 (fr) * 2009-01-29 2010-07-30 Neopost Technologies Bac de stockage d'articles de courrier
EP2213597A3 (de) * 2009-01-29 2011-11-02 Neopost Technologies Lagerbehälter für Postartikel
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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