EP1832536B1 - Einrichtung zur Verarbeitung und/oder zum Transport von flachen Versandstücken - Google Patents

Einrichtung zur Verarbeitung und/oder zum Transport von flachen Versandstücken Download PDF

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EP1832536B1
EP1832536B1 EP06405106.3A EP06405106A EP1832536B1 EP 1832536 B1 EP1832536 B1 EP 1832536B1 EP 06405106 A EP06405106 A EP 06405106A EP 1832536 B1 EP1832536 B1 EP 1832536B1
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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
    • B65H3/02—Separating articles from piles using friction forces between articles and separator
    • B65H3/06—Rollers or like rotary separators
    • B65H3/063—Rollers or like rotary separators separating from the 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
    • B65H3/00—Separating articles from piles
    • B65H3/46—Supplementary devices or measures to assist separation or prevent double feed
    • B65H3/52—Friction retainers acting on under or rear side of article being separated
    • B65H3/5246—Driven retainers, i.e. the motion thereof being provided by a dedicated drive
    • B65H3/5276—Driven retainers, i.e. the motion thereof being provided by a dedicated drive the retainers positioned over articles separated from the bottom of the pile
    • B65H3/5284—Retainers of the roller type, e.g. rollers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2403/00—Power transmission; Driving means
    • B65H2403/70—Clutches; Couplings
    • B65H2403/73—Couplings
    • B65H2403/731—Slip couplings
    • 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
    • B65H2404/10—Rollers
    • B65H2404/16—Details of driving
    • B65H2404/162—Details of driving containing, enclosing own driving means
    • B65H2404/1621—Details of driving containing, enclosing own driving means containing, enclosing braking means
    • 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 invention relates to a device for processing and / or transport of flat packages, such as documents inserted in envelopes and / or letters, patterns, cards or the like.
  • a conveying rollers having a conveying device conveying path at one end for feeding a separating member
  • Packages for individual processing is formed by the separating member has a frictionally acting on the underside of a package and arranged with an overlying supernumerary packages restrained adjusting cooperating, transversely to the conveying direction and extending about a horizontal axis rotatably mounted drive roller, wherein formed as a guide roller adjusting device and the drive roller has a slot-shaped passage opening.
  • Such devices may i.a. be preceded by a franking machine or other processing device.
  • the pre-published US 4 573 673 relates to a feeding device for flat articles, which lie on one another in a stacking space on a conveyor track and individually withdrawn at the bottom of the stack and fed to a further processing which is in particular the feeding of envelopes to a franking machine.
  • a retaining device for the passage of a single envelope.
  • the well-known DE 99920 C discloses a stamp validation apparatus intended to automatically remove one from a stack of letters or the like and to remove it from a scraping or scraping organ and deliver it to a collection container.
  • the apparatus consists of a number of successive organs, which are stored in a rack. From a container individual mail pieces are continued by a Weg chorus on a floor.
  • the former US-A-3,771,783 provides a sheet feeder with a mounted in a housing separating or feeding device.
  • the sheets are pulled off the underside of an inclined stack and conveyed in an inclined plane down.
  • two conveyor rollers are arranged one above the other, of which the upper is mounted in a frame, with the lower forming a conveying gap.
  • the pre-published GB-A-2 016 424 relates to a paper feeding apparatus for a paper sheet counter, comprising a feed roll rotating continuously in one direction and a pressure roll forming a conveying nip with the latter.
  • the pressure roller is formed with a lateral brake ring, so that it can be delayed by means of a force acting on the circumference of the brake ring, spring-loaded brake element with respect to peripheral speed relative to the feed roller.
  • a blanks feeding apparatus is known, with which the blanks stacked in a magazine are withdrawn from the underside of the stack.
  • a withdrawal device formed from two superimposed and cooperating conveyor rollers is provided, in which the upper conveyor roller rotates with a relation to the lower conveyor roller lower peripheral speed.
  • the EP 0'856'483 B1 discloses a device of the type described above, which is arranged in front of a franking machine and along a transport path of the mail pieces has three juxtaposed sections, a feed section for the stacked in a magazine packages, a second subsequent section for singulation and onward transport of the packages and a third section on which the packages, in particular envelopes, are closed and forwarded.
  • Selection rollers and conveying means are provided on the second section for selecting and transporting the packages, which cooperate with transport rollers connected to each other via a hinge, to which the selection rollers and the transport rollers are connected by a joint arranged therebetween.
  • This arrangement provides undefined states of motion that limit the reliability of the device.
  • This fact provides the object of the present invention to provide a device of the same type, which maintains its quality while maintaining its simplicity and reliability.
  • this object is achieved in that the guide roller offset relative to the axis of rotation of the drive roller downstream of the packages and resting on the drive roller idle and is formed liftable relative to the drive roller and rotatably acted upon by a force acting in the same direction to the direction of rotation is mounted and the force acting on the rotational movement of the guide roller force is formed by a friction clutch , wherein formed as a guide roller and the drive roller forming a slot-shaped passage opening, which is passed by the packages lying flat, and wherein the guide roller on the drive roller of a resilient Force is charged in order to be able to be lifted by the passing packages.
  • the guide roller rotates by overcoming the braking effect via the packages.
  • the guide roller is rotatably mounted with a force acting in the same direction to the direction of rotation direction force that exerts a braking effect on the guide roller.
  • the separation of the packages is supported when the guide roller is freely rotatable and formed by a counter to the rotational movement in the conveying direction of the packages, this inhibiting acted upon force.
  • the rotational movement of the guide roller inhibiting force can be achieved in a simple manner by a friction clutch, which is advantageously adjustable,
  • the proposed device can be useful with a letter lock uniting effective as an appliance unit, the letter-closing device adjoining the separating organ.
  • the cooperating with the letter closing device device is particularly suitable in the conveying direction of the packages behind a franking machine.
  • the device 1 has a conveying device 3, comprising a plurality of conveyor rollers 4 to 8 forming a conveying plane for packages 2, which determine a conveying path of the packages 2.
  • the conveying path is designed at one end to supply a separating element 9, which conveys the stacked or individually supplied packages 2 one after the other for further processing.
  • the separating member 9 consists of a drive roller 6, which is assigned to the conveyor 3 and on the underside of the packages 2 kraft- resp. acts frictionally.
  • the guide roller 11 is idle on the drive roller 6 and cooperates with this during transport of the packages 2, wherein both rollers 6, 11 are mounted about a horizontal axis extending transversely to the conveying direction.
  • the guide roller 11 is additionally, but not necessarily loaded by a resilient force, such as a spring force, to be able to be lifted if necessary by the continuous packages 2, in particular thick packages 2.
  • Stopping excess packages 2 takes place in that the adjusting device or guide roller 11 is braked with a force acting against the direction of rotation acting in the same direction as the direction of rotation becomes. This is intended to prevent excess packages 2 from passing between the drive roller 6 and the setting device 11 or from multiple copies not occurring.
  • the adjusting device or guide roller 11 has a recess 13 distributed over the width (see also FIG Fig. 4 ), so that a package 2 when passing accordingly easily deform resp. can adapt to the changing contours. Both in the case of thin and thick packages 2, 2 ', 2 ", the contours on the setting device or guide roller 11 that change over the conveying path support the separating process of the respectively lowest package 2 from the subsequent packages 2', 2".
  • the recess 13 is formed wider than a cooperating with her part of the drive roller 6. This in turn the guide roller 11 protrudes on both sides, so that a distributed and gentle conveying action can occur on the packages 2.
  • the Fig. 4 3 illustrates, in a view in the direction of conveyance of the packages, a package 2 which partly passes on the drive roller 6 and passes through the passage opening 12, while the overlying packages 2 ', 2 "are in abutment with the leading edge or guide roller 11 Edge of the bottom package 2 has reached the passage opening 12, the previously overlying package 2 'comes into the effective range of the drive roller 6, which again transported this package 2' through the slot behind the passage opening 12.
  • the trained according to the drawing as a guide roller adjusting device 11 has a Friction clutch 14, which is arranged on a fixed frame 15 in a frame axis 16 of the guide roller 11 and on the one hand with the axis 16 and on the other hand by means of juxtaposed slats 17 with the guide roller 11 is frictionally connected.
  • the Fig. 3 illustrates a possible embodiment of the adjusting device resp. the guide roller 11 which is mounted on a shaft 15 mounted in the frame 16.
  • the transverse to the conveying direction of the packages 2 and the guide roller 11 passing through axis 16 is at the ends by screws 17 at attached to the frame 15.
  • the guide roller 11 has a cavity 18, in which a compression spring 16 surrounding the axis 16 of a friction clutch 25 is assigned to one side of a collar 20 fitting.
  • the opposite end of the compression spring 19 presses on a plurality of adjacent to the axis 16 adjacent friction plates or fins 21, which in turn are supported on a connected to the inner end wall 22 of the guide roller 11 disc 27.
  • the guide roller 11 could be mounted axially displaceably on the axis 16 and pressed by the pressure generated by the compression spring 19 on the inner end wall 22 against a outside of the housing 26 of the friction clutch 25 mounted on the axis 16 brake disc 24.
  • the housing 26 forming the cavity 18 is provided with a removable disk 27 serving as a lateral bearing flange 27 of the guide roller 11.
  • the guide roller 11 is provided on the circumference with a lining 28 favoring the singling process, which is provided with the recess 13.
  • the conveyor rollers 4 to 7 or 8 of the conveyor 3 have mutatis mutandis coverings on the circumference.
  • the Fig. 1 and 2 show a separating feed element 9 upstream, driven feed roller 5, which consists of two roller bodies 30, 31 with axially separated circumference, which have a fritechnischsin coating.
  • a gap 35 forming stopper 33 is arranged vertically adjustable, so that the passage between the lower edge and counselebne is adjustable.
  • the loading roller 5 has at the periphery to the lower speed than the drive roller 6.
  • the separating member 9 due to a higher peripheral speed latter no unwanted sliding friction between the package 2 and the feed roller 5 is formed, this is formed with a direction acting in the conveying direction of the packages 2 freewheel.
  • the further transport of the packages 2 behind the separating member 9 is carried out by two superimposed, for the running packages 2 a conveying gap forming conveyor rollers 7, 8, of which the lower than driven conveyor roller 7 has the greater peripheral speed than the rotating in the same direction drive roller 6 so that the packages are moved behind the separating element 9 accelerated.
  • the conveying roller 8 arranged above the conveying roller 7 is freely rotatably mounted on the rear end, in the conveying direction, of a rocker 37 belonging to a letter closing device 36, via which the conveying roller 8 is pressed onto the continuous packages 2 by means of a tension spring 38.
  • the Fig. 1 also shows the arrangement method of the adjusting device resp. the guide roller 11 within the device 1.
  • the two spaced by spacers 39, 40 shields 41, 42 having frame 15 extending transversely to the conveying direction of the packages 2, attached to the plates 39, 40 pivot axis 43, on both sides of the guide roller 11 two approximately triangular bearing plates 44, 45 pivotally mounted and connected by a transversely to the conveying direction of the packages 2 extending connecting rod 46.
  • the bearing plates 44,45 form a swivelable about the pivot axis 43 bearing block 47 for the guide roller 11, which is secured by respectively on the bearing plates 44,45 of the bearing block 47 and on the plates 41,42 inwardly projecting pin 48 coil springs 49 -as above already noticed in addition, but not necessarily pulled against the drive roller 6, so that the packages 2 are gently separated and the separating member 9 can pass smoothly. It is essential that the guide roller 11 can respond independently to different thickness and stiff packages 2.
  • the indirectly / directly adjoining the conveyor rollers 7.8, belonging to the letter closing device 36 rocker 37 is provided on both sides in the conveying direction of the packages 2 with a standing oval shaped slot 50 which are penetrated by the pivot axis 43 of the bearing block 47 and the limit vertical movements of the rocker 37.
  • the mounted at the rear end of the rocker 37 conveyor roller 8 is pulled by the tension springs 38 against the driven conveyor roller 7, from which it can stand out in continuous packages 2.
  • the freely rotatably mounted conveyor roller 8 is driven frictionally by the conveyor roller 7 directly or via a continuous package.
  • the rocker 37 has a further, cooperating with a driven conveyor roller 51 mounted below conveyor roller 52.
  • This conveyor roller 52 is pressed by means of tension springs 53 against the conveyor roller 51 and can stand out in the case of continuous packages 2 from the conveyor roller 51 according to the package thickness.
  • the conveying roller pair 51, 52 has approximately the same conveying speed as the conveying roller pair 7, 8. Both conveyor roller pairs 51, 52; 7,8 transport the packages 2 through the letter lock device 36, the part of a in Fig. 1 and 2 shown unit is.
  • the device unit can be preceded by a franking machine in an effective manner.

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EP06405106.3A 2006-03-08 2006-03-08 Einrichtung zur Verarbeitung und/oder zum Transport von flachen Versandstücken Not-in-force EP1832536B1 (de)

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EP06405106.3A EP1832536B1 (de) 2006-03-08 2006-03-08 Einrichtung zur Verarbeitung und/oder zum Transport von flachen Versandstücken
AU2007200668A AU2007200668B2 (en) 2006-03-08 2007-02-16 Device to process and/or transport flat articles
US11/715,827 US8448933B2 (en) 2006-03-08 2007-03-08 Device for processing and/or transporting flat mail items
CN2007100857217A CN101062736B (zh) 2006-03-08 2007-03-08 用于处理和/或运输扁平的寄送物品的设备

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