EP1803585A1 - Système d'insertion avec moteur et accouplement contrôlé - Google Patents

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EP1803585A1
EP1803585A1 EP05078063A EP05078063A EP1803585A1 EP 1803585 A1 EP1803585 A1 EP 1803585A1 EP 05078063 A EP05078063 A EP 05078063A EP 05078063 A EP05078063 A EP 05078063A EP 1803585 A1 EP1803585 A1 EP 1803585A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B43—WRITING OR DRAWING IMPLEMENTS; BUREAU ACCESSORIES
    • B43M—BUREAU ACCESSORIES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B43M3/00—Devices for inserting documents into envelopes
    • B43M3/04—Devices for inserting documents into envelopes automatic
    • B43M3/045—Devices for inserting documents into envelopes automatic for envelopes with only one flap
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B43—WRITING OR DRAWING IMPLEMENTS; BUREAU ACCESSORIES
    • B43M—BUREAU ACCESSORIES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B43M5/00—Devices for closing envelopes
    • B43M5/04—Devices for closing envelopes automatic
    • B43M5/042—Devices for closing envelopes automatic for envelopes with only one flap

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  • the invention relates to an inserter and to a method for inserting postal items into envelopes.
  • Such apparatuses are known from practice and are typically used in mailrooms where large numbers of documents or sets of documents are each to be inserted in an envelope in order to send these documents to addressees.
  • this object is achieved by providing an inserter according to claim 1.
  • the invention also provides a method according to claim 11.
  • the coupling for driving the transport paths via the coupling and the coupling control mechanism for operating the coupling control mechanism can be driven by the same motor, a particularly low cost design of the drive structure of the inserter can be achieved.
  • the inserter has a housing 1 in which an envelope feeder 2, an envelope stuffing mechanism, a document feeder 4, a folder 5 and a tray 6 for receiving completed mail pieces can be distinguished.
  • an envelope holder 7 In an envelope holder 7 a stack 8 of envelopes is held. A separating lip 9 and envelope feeder roller 10 at the top end of the holder 2 define an envelope start position 11.
  • a set of envelope transport rollers 12, guide rollers 13, 14 and a guide plate 15 extending along the envelope transport roller define an envelope transport path for transporting envelopes one by one from the envelope start position 11 to an inserting position in which, in Fig. 1, an envelope 16 is shown.
  • the inserting position is determined by the positions of the transport roller 12 and the most downstream guide roller 14 between which, in operation, the flap 17 of an envelope 16 in the inserting position is held, and by upper guides 18 and lower guides 19 between which the body 20 of the envelope 16 to be filled is guided.
  • a sensor 21 for sensing the passage of an envelope and a flap opener 17 are situated along the envelope transport path (Fig. 1).
  • a stack 23 of sheets is held.
  • the holder and a feeding roller 24 at the top end of the holder define a postal item start position 25 from where transport of a document (or other postal item to be inserted in the envelope) starts when the inserter is in operation.
  • a set of transport rollers 26, a set of separating rollers 27, a buckle folding chute 28, a set of folding rollers 29 and a pivotable guide plate 30 define a postal item transport path for transporting postal items one by one from the postal item start position 25 to the inserting position until the postal item is inserted in the envelope 16.
  • the transport rollers a26 are not visible, however an axle 32 via which the transport rollers 26 are drivable and are suspended is visible in Fig. 3.
  • Fig. 1 one document 31 is shown in the postal item transport path in a position just before a fold is made in a folding nip between the transport rollers 26 (which also form folding rollers) and the folding rollers 29.
  • the inserting position also extends between upper and lower envelope closing rollers 34, 35. Together with an exit opening 36 in the housing 1, the envelope closing rollers 34, 35 define an exit path for transporting the envelope 16 with the at least one inserted postal item therein from the inserting position to the exit 36 from where the filled and completed envelope, now forming a completed mail piece, can drop into the tray 6.
  • the inserter For driving the rollers, the inserter according to the present example has a single motor 37. To allow sequentially driving various functions of the inserter with the same motor 37, a coupling is provided. For the sake of clarity, this coupling is first described with respect to the function of switching between driving envelope transport and postal item transport only.
  • the motor 37 has a drive pulley 38 which is coupled to a pulley 39 on a main drive shaft 40 via a toothed drive belt 41.
  • An postal item drive gear wheel 42 and an envelope drive gear wheel 43 are fixedly mounted to the main drive shaft 40.
  • the postal item drive gear wheel 42 permanently engages intermediate gear wheel 44, which, in turn, permanently engages intermediate gear wheel 45.
  • the intermediate gear wheels are rotatably suspended from an postal item drive rocker 46, which, in turn, is rotatably mounted on the main drive shaft 40 and carries an operating pawl 47 engaged by a postal item drive coupling control cam 48.
  • a spring (not shown) keeps the operating pawl 47 of the postal item drive rocker 46 in engagement with the postal item drive coupling control cam 46.
  • the rocker 46 By rotating the postal item drive coupling control cam 48, the rocker 46 can be rotated between a coupled position in which the intermediate gear wheel 45 is in engagement with a gear wheel 49 on a postal item drive shaft 50 and an uncoupled position, in which the intermediate gear wheel 45, and thereby the main drive shaft 40, is uncoupled from the gear wheel 49 on the postal item drive shaft 50.
  • a pulley 51 fixedly mounted to the postal item drive shaft 50 is coupled to a pulley 52 fixedly mounted to the transport roller axle 33 via a toothed drive belt 53 for driving the transport of postal items.
  • the postal item drive rocker 46 and the postal item drive gear wheels 42, 44, 45, 49 form a coupling in the postal item drive line for coupling the motor 37 for driving the postal item transport path for transporting the postal items from the postal item start position 25 to the inserting position 16 and for uncoupling the motor 37 when the postal item has been inserted in the envelope 16.
  • the uncoupling of the postal item drive gear wheel 45 from the gear wheel 49 on the postal item drive shaft 50 may for instance be carried out in response to detection of the trailing end of the postal item near the inserting position 16.
  • the separating unit is not further described and may for instance be of a design as described in US patent 5,362,037 .
  • the envelope drive gear wheel 42 permanently engages an intermediate gear wheel 54 an a reverse gear wheel 55, which in turn, permanently engages an intermediate gear wheel 56.
  • the intermediate gear wheels 54, 56 and the reverse gear wheel 55 are rotatably mounted to an envelope drive rocker 57, which, in turn, is rotatably mounted to the main drive shaft 40 and carries an operating pawl 58 engaged by an envelope drive coupling control cam 59.
  • a spring (not shown) keeps the operating pawl 58 of the rocker 57 in engagement with the envelope drive coupling control cam 59.
  • the envelope drive rocker 57 By rotating the envelope drive coupling control cam 59, the envelope drive rocker 57 can be rotated between an envelope transport position and a flap moistening and closing position and a position in which none of the intermediate gear wheels 54 56 engages the gear wheel 60 on the envelope drive shaft 61.
  • the intermediate wheel 54 In the envelope transport position, the intermediate wheel 54 is in engagement with a gear wheel 60 fixedly mounted to an envelope drive shaft 61 and in which the envelope drive shaft 61 is driven to rotate in a sense of rotation indicated by arrow A by rotation of the main drive shaft 40 in a sense of rotation indicated by arrow B.
  • the envelope drive coupling control cam 59 is shown in a position keeping the envelope drive rocker 57 in its flap moistening and closing position.
  • a drive pulley 62 fixedly mounted to the envelope drive shaft 61 is coupled to a an envelope feed axle 63 carrying the envelope feed rollers 10 via a toothed envelope drive belt 64 over the drive pulley 62 and driven pulley 65.
  • the driven pulley 65 is mounted to an envelope transport axle 66 carrying the envelope transport rollers 12.
  • a drive pulley 67 is mounted to the same envelope transport axle 66 for rotation together with the driven pulley 65 and coupled to driven pulleys 68, 70 via a toothed distribution belt 71.
  • the driven pulley 68 is fixedly mounted to an envelope closing axle 69 carrying an upper one of the envelope closing rollers 34 and the driven pulley 70 is fixedly coupled a gear wheel 72 that is in driving engagement with a gear wheel 73 fixedly mounted to the envelope feed axle 63.
  • the envelope drive rocker 57 and the envelope drive gear wheels 43, 54, 55, 56, 60 form both a forward/reverse coupling and a coupling for coupling and uncoupling, in the envelope drive line for selectively driving the envelope transport and exit paths for transport in opposite directions.
  • the envelope feed rollers 10 should stop rotating after the feeding of an envelope is completed. This can for instance be achieved using a coupling controlled in response to signals from the sensor 21. It is also possible to provide a separate cam and coupling controlled thereby for coupling and uncoupling the envelope feed rollers to the motor 37.
  • the pulley 39 that is driven by the motor 37 via the toothed belt 41 is fixedly coupled to a gear wheel 74 of which the teeth engage teeth of a gear wheel 75 that is mounted on a cam shaft 76 to which the cams 48, 56 are fixedly mounted.
  • the gear wheel 75 is coupled to the cam shaft 76 via a one-way clutch 77 that causes the gear wheel 75 to entrain the cam shaft 76 if the gear wheel 75 is rotated in a sense of rotation indicated by an arrow D and that freewheels if the gear wheel 75 is driven by the gear wheel 74 to rotate in the opposite sense of rotation.
  • the pulley 39 and the gear wheel 74 are coupled to the main drive shaft 40 by a one-way clutch 78 that causes the gear wheel 74 to entrain the main drive shaft 40 if the pulley 39 and the gear wheel 74 are rotated in the sense of rotation B and that freewheels if the pulley 39 and the gear wheel 75 are rotated in the opposite sense of rotation.
  • the pulley 39 and the gear wheel 74 are rotated in the sense of rotation B so that the main drive shaft 40 is entrained while the gear wheel 75 is rotated in a sense of rotation opposite to the sense of rotation D. This causes the one-way clutch between the gear wheel 75 and the cam shaft 76 to freewheel, so that the cam shaft 76 is left stationary.
  • the motor 37 is rotated in the opposite sense of rotation indicated by an arrow F
  • the pulley 39 and the gear wheel 74 are rotated in a sense opposite to the sense of rotation B so that the one-way clutch 78 between main drive shaft 40 and the gear wheel 74 freewheels, causing the main drive shaft to be left stationary.
  • the gear wheel 75 is then rotated in the sense of rotation D, which causes the one-way clutch 77 to engage and entrain the cam shaft 76.
  • the coupling control mechanism formed by the cams 48, 59, is driven via the two-way selector transmission formed by the gear wheels 74, 75 and the one way clutches 77, 78 for driving the envelope and/or postal item drive lines if the selector transmission is in a first operating condition and for driving the coupling control mechanism for operating the couplings if the selector transmission is in a second operating condition.
  • the selector transmission is arranged for driving the drive line in response to being driven in a first sense of rotation and for driving the coupling control mechanism in response to being driven in a second sense of rotation opposite to said first sense of rotation.
  • the selector transmission includes a first one-way clutch 78 via which the drive line is coupled to the motor 37 and a second one-way clutch 77 via which the coupling control mechanism 48, 59 is coupled to the motor 37.
  • a first one-way clutch 78 via which the drive line is coupled to the motor 37
  • a second one-way clutch 77 via which the coupling control mechanism 48, 59 is coupled to the motor 37.
  • the coupling control mechanism includes cams 48, 59 each having a cam surface arranged for engaging a control member 46, 47 of the coupling controlled thereby is advantageous for obtaining a simple design for transition of rotation of the motor into control operations and freedom of design with respect to the timing of operations is provided in a simple manner.
  • cams 48, 59 are curve disks further contributes to the simplicity of design.
  • cams allow to perform several control operations driven by the same motor.
  • the inserter according to the present example is equipped with a plurality of cams.
  • the inserter Apart from the cam 48 for controlling the coupling and uncoupling of the postal item drive line and the cam 59 for controlling the sense of rotation of the envelope drive line, the inserter according to the present example also includes flap closing cams 79 and flap pressing cams 80.
  • the flap closing cams 79 engage a roller 81 of envelope flap closing members in the form of a rockers 82 carrying an axle 83 on which a set of flap closing rollers 84 is mounted.
  • the flap closing rollers 84 are shown in a position free from the envelope transport path.
  • the flap closing rollers 84 can be displaced from the shown position to a position on the opposite side of the envelope transport path and of the insert position, thereby pressing guide 19 away. If this is carried out while an envelope is positioned with a fold between the envelope flap and the envelope body is closely to the exit side of the trajectory along which the flap closing rollers 84 are displaced, the flap is pivoted towards a moistener 85 (Fig. 1).
  • the flap can then be moistened and closed by transporting the envelope in a direction opposite to the direction in which it has arrived from the starting position 11. Finally the flap can be pressed against the envelope body for firm closing of the envelope by transporting the envelope towards the exit 36 and passing the envelope through a nip between the rollers 34, 35. Envelope moistening and closing according to the same principle described in more detail in Dutch patent application 1 027 889 .
  • the pressing cams 79 are provided, which are positioned on the camshaft 76 for engaging rollers 86 of rockers 87 that carry an axle 88 to which the lower ones 35 of the envelope pressing rollers 34, 35 are mounted.
  • the rockers 88 By pivoting the rockers 88 under control of the pressing cams 79, the lower ones 35 of the envelope pressing rollers can be selectively moved between a transport position for transporting an envelope, in which a nip is formed between the pressing rollers 34, 35 and the shown retracted position free from the envelope 16 in the operating area of the roller 35.
  • an index wheel 89 is fixedly mounted to the camshaft 76 and a positioning finger 90 carrying an index pawl 91 is mounted to the main drive shaft via a slip clutch 92.
  • the positioning finger 90 is dragged along in the sense of rotation B of the main drive shaft 40 until it is lodged in an index recess on the circumference of the index wheel 89.
  • the cam shaft 76 which is then not controlled by the motor 37, is thereby reliable maintained in position.
  • the motor 7 is alternatingly rotated in the senses of rotation E and F over predetermined distances.
  • the motor 37 is preverably a stepper motor.
  • Table 1 Stage Action Motor Envelope Drive Coupling Postal item drive Coupling Flap Closing Roller Pressing Roller I Operating inserter: see ⁇ Sense F 60° Forward (sense A) Retracted II Separating envelope and transporting envelope to insert position. Sense E to insert position II Operating inserter: see ⁇ Sense F 60° Off Engaged IV Separating, folding and transporting and inserting postal item. Sense E to insert position V Operating inserter: see ⁇ Sense F 60° Forward (sense A) Disengaged Pressing position VI Transporting filled envelope to flap pivoting position.
  • Sense E to flap pivot position VII Operating inserter: see ⁇ Sense F 60° Reverse (sense C) Flap closing position VIII Transporting envelope so that flap closes.
  • Sense E to flap closed position IX Operating inserter: see ⁇ Sense F 60° Forward (sense A) X Transporting envelope through pressing rollers to exit.
  • Sense E to exit XI Operating inserter: see ⁇ Sense F 60° Off Released position

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