EP2085340B2 - Vorrichtung zur Auswahl von Postartikeln mit regulierbarer Düse - Google Patents

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EP2085340B2
EP2085340B2 EP09151544.5A EP09151544A EP2085340B2 EP 2085340 B2 EP2085340 B2 EP 2085340B2 EP 09151544 A EP09151544 A EP 09151544A EP 2085340 B2 EP2085340 B2 EP 2085340B2
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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
    • B65H3/5207—Non-driven retainers, e.g. movable retainers being moved by the motion of the article
    • B65H3/523—Non-driven retainers, e.g. movable retainers being moved by the motion of the article the retainers positioned over articles separated from the bottom of the pile
    • B65H3/5238—Retainers of the pad-type, e.g. friction pads
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2401/00—Materials used for the handling apparatus or parts thereof; Properties thereof
    • B65H2401/10—Materials
    • B65H2401/13—Coatings, paint or varnish
    • 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
    • B65H2511/20—Location in space
    • B65H2511/21—Angle
    • B65H2511/214—Inclination
    • 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 to the field of mail processing and it relates more particularly to a device for selecting mail items used in an automatic feed module, or feeder, of a machine for franking mail items.
  • a franking machine must be adapted to receive different types of mail items such as documents, folds or envelopes having greater or lesser thicknesses, typically from 0.1 mm to 16 mm.
  • it often has an automatic feed module upstream allowing in particular the conveying of these mail items at different speeds and usually comprising means for receiving / stacking, selecting, transporting and possibly closing these mail items.
  • the receiving / stacking means conventionally include jogging means for pressing the mail items against a referencing wall. These jogging means can be of different kinds.
  • the patent US 5,112,037 discloses a double inclination of the receiving tray towards the rear and towards the referencing wall in order to properly reference the mail items whose spread flaps are then housed in a slot.
  • the document EP-A-0 195 348 describes a device for selecting mail items comprising at least one die cooperating with a plurality of opposite selection rollers passing through a tray for receiving a stack of mail items, for selecting one by one said mail items and transport downstream.
  • the object of the present invention is to overcome this biasing of the mail item resulting from the excess thickness of the flap by proposing a device for selecting mail items, the die of which is specially adapted to enable the item of mail to be straightened. mail.
  • a device for selecting mail items comprising at least one die cooperating with a plurality of opposite selection rollers passing through a tray for receiving a stack of mail items, to select one by one said items of mail and transport them downstream, characterized in that to compensate for a biasing of said mail items resulting from the excess thickness of their flaps and allow a straightening of mail items passing under said die, said die has a predetermined inclination at an angle ⁇ relative to a horizontal plane defined by said receiving plate with a distance between a lower end part of said die and said larger receiving plate at the part of said die closest to a referencing wall than that furthest from said referencing wall.
  • said die comprises a body articulated around an axis of rotation and able to pivot against an elastic return means during the passage of mail items on said plurality of selection rollers and a front part forming a comb. fixed to said body and to the end of the teeth of which is fixed a selection finger coated with a wear-resistant material, advantageously a ceramic or a carbide.
  • said die body is made of plastic.
  • said inclination at said angle ⁇ is obtained by asymmetric adjustment means acting by deformation of said die body.
  • Said asymmetric adjustment means may comprise two screw / nut assemblies each acting against a fixed stop fixed to a frame of the device, each of said two screw / nut assemblies being mounted in two parts arranged on either side of said body.
  • said body part receives a fixed nut into which is screwed an adjustment screw held without play in this body part by an elastic element.
  • the invention also relates to a mail item feeder for a franking machine comprising a device for selecting mail items supra.
  • An automatic mail item supply module conventionally comprises a feed area essentially formed by a receiving tray defining a horizontal plane and intended to receive a stack of mail items and comprising first transport rollers for driving these items.
  • mail items downstream (and against a referencing wall) at a separation zone comprising a separation device in which these mail items are extracted one by one from the stack of articles.
  • Second transport rollers are generally provided at the outlet of this separation zone for conveying the mail items thus extracted downstream.
  • Such an automatic feeder is for example illustrated in the European patent cited in the preamble to this application.
  • the Figures 1 and 2 show more precisely a device according to the invention for separating mail items which essentially comprises a die 10 cooperating with several opposite selection rollers (not shown) passing through the reception plate (also not shown) to select a mail item and only one and transport it downstream.
  • this first path may or may not be followed by a second disengageable path, as is known, by means of a manual operating lever.
  • the single die is formed in two parts with on the one hand a body 12, of plastic material, articulated around an axis of rotation 14 and capable of pivoting against a means of elastic return, for example a compression spring 16A, 16B, during the passage of the mail items on the selection rollers and on the other hand a front, metallic part, forming a comb 18 fixed to the body of the die by fixing means , for example screws 20, and at the end of the teeth of which a selection finger 18A, 18B is fixed coated with a wear-resistant material such as a ceramic or a carbide.
  • a means of elastic return for example a compression spring 16A, 16B
  • the die in its active part, is not arranged perpendicular to the transport path of the mail items but inclined downstream (along the X axis), in a plane perpendicular to the setting wall reference, of an angle ⁇ of approximately 45 ° relative to this transport path.
  • the elastic return means is also supported on a frame part 22 of the selection device.
  • each finger 18A of the comb 18 of the die 10 is given by a titanium oxide, such as Ti-Cord from the French company Saint-Gobain, deposited by thermal transfer. This results in a very high hardness of the selection finger which can be held in place throughout the life of the feeder and the roughness of the material is sufficient to properly hang the mail items while preventing possible tearing during their passage.
  • the inclination of the die, by an angle ⁇ is obtained by an asymmetrical adjustment of the distance from the plate to the die and more particularly, in the example illustrated, by asymmetric adjustment means constituted by two sets of screws / nuts 24A, 24B each acting against a fixed stop 26A, 26B secured to the frame 22 of the device.
  • Each of the two screw / nut assemblies is mounted in a part 12A, 12B extending for example above and on either side of the die body, that is to say respectively on the referencing wall side and on the opposite side , in practice the operator side of the franking machine.
  • This body part receives a fixed nut 28A, 28B into which an adjustment screw 30A, 30B will be screwed, moreover held without play in this body part by an elastic element such as a spring 32A, 32B.
  • the operation of the selection device according to the invention is as follows.
  • the mail items to be treated being placed on the receiving tray of the feeder, they will be introduced into the selection device and extracted one by one by the die.
  • the first contact of the mail item at the finger closest to the operator will tend to press the rear part of the mail item against the referencing wall 34, which will keep good referencing especially if the receiving plate 36 is equipped with drive rollers 38A, 38B inclined by report to the direction of transport.
  • the inclination of the die from the angle ⁇ is obtained for example by acting on the first adjustment screw 30B, preferably that arranged on the operator side, to adjust the distance from the plate to the die at a first predetermined height and thus ensure horizontal positioning. of the die with respect to the receiving plate, then by acting on the second adjustment screw 30A placed on the side of the referencing wall, in order to adjust the distance from the plate to the die at a second predetermined height deform the plastic body of the die and thus ensure an inclination of the die with respect to this receiving plate 36.
  • the biasing of end-of-stack mail items resulting from the excess thickness of the flap is avoided because by allowing these mail items to engage under the die where the height is most important , a jogging or compensating effect may be produced on this cross.

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Claims (8)

  1. Vorrichtung zum Selektieren von Postsendungen, umfassend wenigstens eine Düse (10), die mit einer Vielzahl von gegenüberliegenden, eine Platte (36) zur Aufnahme eines Stapels von Postsendungen durchgreifenden Selektionsrollen zusammenwirkt, um die Postsendungen eine nach der anderen zu selektieren und sie stromabwärts zu befördern, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass zum Beheben eines Schrägstellens der Postsendungen, das aus der Überdicke ihrer Klappen resultiert, sowie zum Ermöglichen eines Aufrichtens der unter der Düse durchlaufenden Postsendungen die Düse eine vorbestimmte Neigung unter einem Winkel Θ gegenüber einer durch die Aufnahmeplatte definierten horizontalen Ebene aufweist, mit einem Abstand zwischen einem unteren Endteil der Düse und der Aufnahmeplatte, der im Bereich des einer Bezugswand (34) am nächsten befindlichen Teils der Düse größer als in dem des von der Bezugswand am weitesten entfernten Teils ist.
  2. Vorrichtung zum Selektieren von Postsendungen nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Düse einen Körper (12), der um eine Rotationsachse (14) angelenkt ist und während des Durchlaufs der Postsendungen an der Vielzahl von Selektionsrollen entgegen einem elastischen Rückstellmittel (16A, 16B) verschwenken kann, sowie einen vorderen, einen Kamm (18) bildenden Teil umfasst, der an dem Körper befestigt ist und an dem Ende seiner Zinken einen hieran befestigen, mit einem verschleißfesten Material überzogenen Selektionsfinger (18A, 18B) aufweist.
  3. Vorrichtung zum Selektieren von Postsendungen nach Anspruch 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Material des Selektionsfingers eine Keramik oder ein Carbid ist.
  4. Vorrichtung zum Selektieren von Postsendungen nach Anspruch 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Düsenkörper aus Kunststoff besteht.
  5. Vorrichtung zum Selektieren von Postsendungen nach Anspruch 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Neigung unter dem genannten Winkel Θ mit Hilfe von Mitteln zum asymmetrischen Einstellen (24A, 24B ; 26A, 26B, 28A, 28B, 30A, 30B, 32A, 32B), die durch Verformung des Düsenkörpers wirken, erhalten wird.
  6. Vorrichtung zum Selektieren von Postsendungen nach Anspruch 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Mittel zum asymmetrischen Einstellen zwei Schraube/Mutter-Anordnungen (24A, 24B) umfassen, die jeweils entgegen einem festen Anschlag (26A, 26B) wirken, der mit einem Rahmen (22) der Vorrichtung fest verbunden ist, wobei jede der beiden Schraube/Mutter-Anordnungen in zwei auf beiden Seiten des Körpers angeordneten Teilen (12A, 12B) angebracht ist.
  7. Vorrichtung zum Selektieren von Postsendungen nach Anspruch 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Körperteil eine feste Mutter (28A, 28B) aufnimmt, in die eine Stellschraube (30A, 30B) geschraubt ist, die in diesem Körperteil durch ein Federelement (32A, 32B) spielfrei gehalten ist.
  8. Vorrichtung zum Zuführen von Postsendungen für eine Frankiermaschine, die eine Vorrichtung zum Selektieren von Postsendungen nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 7 umfasst.
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