EP1814087B1 - Optimierte Transportvorrichtung für Maschine zur Verarbeitung von Post - Google Patents

Optimierte Transportvorrichtung für Maschine zur Verarbeitung von Post Download PDF

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EP1814087B1
EP1814087B1 EP07100953A EP07100953A EP1814087B1 EP 1814087 B1 EP1814087 B1 EP 1814087B1 EP 07100953 A EP07100953 A EP 07100953A EP 07100953 A EP07100953 A EP 07100953A EP 1814087 B1 EP1814087 B1 EP 1814087B1
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Régis Desire
Hervé Duval
Stéphane Legallo
Philip Torres
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Quadient Technologies France SA
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J11/00—Devices or arrangements  of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
    • B41J11/0035—Handling copy materials differing in thickness
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J11/00—Devices or arrangements  of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
    • B41J11/007—Conveyor belts or like feeding devices
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J11/00—Devices or arrangements  of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
    • B41J11/20—Platen adjustments for varying the strength of impression, for a varying number of papers, for wear or for alignment, or for print gap adjustment
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J13/00—Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, specially adapted for supporting or handling copy material in short lengths, e.g. sheets
    • B41J13/10—Sheet holders, retainers, movable guides, or stationary guides
    • B41J13/12—Sheet holders, retainers, movable guides, or stationary guides specially adapted for small cards, envelopes, or the like, e.g. credit cards, cut visiting cards
    • 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
    • G07B17/00508—Printing or attaching on mailpieces
    • G07B2017/00516—Details of printing apparatus
    • G07B2017/00524—Printheads
    • G07B2017/00532—Inkjet
    • 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

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  • the present invention relates to the exclusive field of mail processing and it relates in particular to a device for transporting and guiding mail items, such as documents, folds, envelopes, labels, under a print head to inkjet of a franking machine.
  • the present invention relates to a transport and guiding device that eliminates the disadvantages of prior devices.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a device capable of treating envelopes regardless of their thickness or size.
  • Yet another object of the invention is to provide a device which avoids shocks and blows in the transport of the envelopes of the devices of the prior art.
  • the Figures 1 to 4 show a device 10 according to the invention for transporting and guiding mail items such as an envelope 12 under an ink jet print head 14 of a franking machine.
  • the Figures 1 and 2 correspond to a rest position of the device in the absence of envelopes.
  • the Figures 3 and 4 correspond to an operating position in the presence of an envelope of variable thickness and thus to the irregular profile (the dimensions are exaggerated for a better understanding of the invention).
  • This device comprises, as is known, below a fixed guide plate 16 (which is integral with the body of the franking machine) for a higher reference of these mail items, several training sets arranged in planes parallel to the direction D of movement of the mail items through the machine including at least a first drive assembly 20 and a second drive assembly 22, each preferably formed of a belt 200, 220 mounted on a set of pulleys and forming a lower reference surface for these mail items.
  • the two sets of drives are spaced apart from each other by a space substantially corresponding to the width of a postage stamp. Note, of course, that it is possible, with the device of the invention, to add one or more training sets similar to each of the previous training sets depending on the type of franking machine or for a better maintenance of very large mail items, for example in A4 format.
  • the two belts of the drive assemblies each cooperate with a set of counter-rollers 30A, 30B, 32 arranged, upstream and downstream of the print head 14, above these belts. traversing in place the fixed guide plate 16 (they are flush just below this plate, to allow the training of the mail item).
  • These against-rollers freely rotatable about their respective axes are freely rotated during the advance of the mail items which are themselves driven in translation by the two belts.
  • the vertical displacements of the first and second drive assembly are made independently of one another by means of a parallelogram system 38, 40 whose arms connect the axes of the different pulleys of each drive assembly.
  • the parallelogram system further ensures that the surface of the belts always remains parallel to the guide plate.
  • Each parallelogram system acts against an elastic means (not shown) so that the belts can remain in constant contact with the underside of the mailpiece during its movement along the guide path.
  • This mail article for example a fold formed of an envelope a wad of documents of a constant thickness, will engage in a guide and transport path formed between the upper surface of the belts 200, 220 of the drive assemblies and the lower surface of the fixed guide plate 16.
  • the fold Under the action of these motorized belts by the common motor shaft 24 actuated by the motor 26, the fold will be driven in the direction D of displacement and will move the belts from their initial high position, a distance corresponding to the thickness of the fold. Then, still pushed by these belts, it will pass under the print head 14 and once the impression made to be evacuated to a shipping module (not shown).
  • the distance between the ejection surfaces of the nozzles of the print head and the upper surface of the conveyed fold is kept constant, at a predetermined optimal value and depending on the characteristics of the head, whatever the thickness of this fold, due to the action of the parallelogram system which exerts a permanent stress on the lower surface of the fold, under the effect of the elastic means (return springs not shown), and the fixed guide plate which serves as a reference stop for its upper surface.
  • the first and second drive assemblies will move vertically in a different manner to transport this fold to the zone of impression then evacuate it.
  • the entry of this fold into the guide path will cause spacing of the belt 200 of the first drive assembly different from that 220 of the second drive assembly which will have the effect of engaging the fold in a rectilinear movement .
  • This independent drive which, in addition by restoring a planar upper surface to this fold ensures better referencing and rendering now constant distance d to the print head thus guarantees a perfect print quality.

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  • Feeding Of Articles By Means Other Than Belts Or Rollers (AREA)
  • Delivering By Means Of Belts And Rollers (AREA)
  • Sheets, Magazines, And Separation Thereof (AREA)
  • Devices For Checking Fares Or Tickets At Control Points (AREA)
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  • Separation, Sorting, Adjustment, Or Bending Of Sheets To Be Conveyed (AREA)

Claims (4)

  1. Vorrichtung zum Befördern und Führen von Postsendungen in einer mit einem Tintenstrahldruckkopf ausgestatteten Frankiermaschine, Maschine, bei der jede eine Oberseite und eine Unterseite aufweisende Postsendung (12) unter dem Druckkopf (14) zwischen einer Bezugsoberseite, die durch die Unterseite einer festen Führungsplatte (16) definiert ist, und einer Bezugsunterseite hindurch läuft, Vorrichtung, die wenigstens zwei quer nebeneinander angeordnete und unabhängig voneinander vertikal bewegliche Antriebseinheiten (20, 22) umfaßt, derart, daß die Oberseite der Postsendungen ständig gegen die feste Führungsplatte gedrückt bleibt, ganz gleich, welche Dicke die Postsendung aufweist und insbesondere dann, wenn diese über die Breite der Postsendungen veränderlich ist, wobei jede der Antriebseinheiten einen Riemen (200, 220) umfaßt, dessen Oberseite die Bezugsunterseite bildet und der an einer Anordnung von Rollen angebracht ist, von denen eine einzige (202, 222) antreibend ist, wobei die anderen Rollen (204, 206, 208; 224, 226, 228) frei gelassen sind und einfach über den Riemen, der sie mit der Antriebsrolle verbindet, in Rotation versetzt werden, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß jede der Rollenanordnungen ein Parallelogrammsystem (38, 40) bildet, dessen Arme die Achsen der jede Antriebseinheit bildenden verschiedenen Rollen verbindet und das einem Federmittel entgegenwirkt, derart, daß die Riemen während der gesamten Bewegung der Postsendung durch die Frankiermaschine ständig mit deren Unterseite in Kontakt bleiben, wobei einer der Arme eines jeden der Parallelogrammsysteme mit einem Motor (34, 36) verbunden ist, um eine gesteuerte Vertikalbewegung eines jeden der Riemen zu ermöglichen.
  2. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Vertikalbewegung eines jeden der Riemen in Abhängigkeit von der zuvor vor der Vorrichtung erhaltenen Dicke der Postsendung gesteuert wird.
  3. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Antriebsrollen der Antriebseinheiten mit einer gemeinsamen, durch einen einzigen Motor (26) drehangetriebenen Antriebswelle (24) verbunden sind.
  4. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß zur Sicherstellung des Transports der Postsendungen durch die Frankiermaschine die Riemen mit Gegenrollen (30A, 30B, 32) zusammenwirken, die ihnen gegenüberliegen und um ihre jeweilige Rotationsachse beweglich angebracht sind und direkt unterhalb der Unterseite der festen Führungsplatte fluchten.
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