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EP2361864A1
EP2361864A1 EP10305173A EP10305173A EP2361864A1 EP 2361864 A1 EP2361864 A1 EP 2361864A1 EP 10305173 A EP10305173 A EP 10305173A EP 10305173 A EP10305173 A EP 10305173A EP 2361864 A1 EP2361864 A1 EP 2361864A1
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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
    • B65H31/00—Pile receivers
    • B65H31/02—Pile receivers with stationary end support against which pile accumulates
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
    • G07B17/00193—Constructional details of apparatus in a franking system
    • 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
    • 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
    • B65H2405/112—Rear, i.e. portion opposite to the feeding / delivering side
    • 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
    • B65H2405/114—Side, i.e. portion parallel to the feeding / delivering direction
    • 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
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
    • G07B17/00193—Constructional details of apparatus in a franking system
    • G07B2017/00209—Mailbox, i.e. container for outgoing mail

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  • the present invention relates to the field of mail processing and more particularly relates to a storage device (drop stacker) for franking machine.
  • said longitudinal referencing wall is inclined with respect to the vertical and towards said receiving plate by an angle ⁇ , said angle ⁇ being between 0.3 ° and 2.5 °, typically 1.31 ° .
  • said angle ⁇ is between 3 ° and 43 °, typically 23 ° and said angle ⁇ is between 1.30 ° and 5.30 °, typically 3.30 °.
  • the storage device further comprises a vertical front wall on which is secured a clip intended to be fixed on a rim of a support table of said franking machine and said receiving plate has a groove formed along said vertical back wall to allow gripping of franked mail items.
  • the figure 1 illustrates a franking line of mail items as commonly present in a courier service of a company or an administration, with a franking machine 10 preceded by a device 12 for supplying articles of mail. mail and followed by a device 14 for storing the franked mail items.
  • the feeding device and the franking machine are conventionally arranged on a support table 16, to be at the operator of the machine, the storage device being placed below to allow an accumulation of mail items franked.
  • the storage device comprises a substantially rectangular receiving plate 20, a longitudinal referencing wall 22 disposed on a longitudinal edge of this plate and a vertical rear wall or bottom 24 disposed on a lateral edge of this plate.
  • the receiving plate is inclined relative to the horizontal and towards the longitudinal reference wall by an angle ⁇ of between 3 ° and 43 °, typically 23 °.
  • the longitudinal referencing wall is itself inclined with respect to the vertical and towards the receiving plate by an angle ⁇ of between 0.3 ° and 2.5 °, typically 1.31 °, so that the The angle ⁇ between the longitudinal referencing wall and the receiving plate forms an acute angle of less than 90 ° and typically of the order of 65 °.
  • the vertical bottom wall meanwhile, is made with a perpendicular to the longitudinal referencing wall an angle ⁇ between 1.30 ° and 5.30 °, typically 3.30 °.
  • the inclination of the receiving plate 20 towards the longitudinal referencing wall 22 is necessary to compensate for the natural inclination due to the thickness of the flaps which during the accumulation of the mail items in the device would tend to cause the falling of these mail items on the opposite side to the longitudinal reference wall.
  • the inventor has thus been able to determine that an inclination of 23 ° is perfectly suitable for a storage device allowing the accumulation of a stack of 60 mail items while a tilt of 43 ° was more suitable for a stack able to receive up to 600 of these overlapping items.
  • the inclination of the rear vertical wall 24 improves the alignment of the mail items because in the absence of such inclination (that is to say with a wall perfectly perpendicular to the longitudinal wall referencing), it is not possible to predict the rebound of mail items, the ejection of the franking machine is never perfectly parallel, which can then as well bounce against the longitudinal wall of implementation reference that, on the opposite side, towards the outside of the device.
  • the small inclination of only a few degrees by providing a first almost systematic point contact with the right front corner of each article of mail, makes it possible to guarantee a sudden rebound towards the longitudinal referencing wall 22.
  • this one-time contact (and not with the entire edge of the mail item), promotes a slower and a lesser rebound of the mail item.
  • the storage device To align the storage device with the franking machine, specifically with its output slot by which are ejected one by one the mail items, the storage device also has on its side edge before a vertical wall 26 on which is secured by fasteners 28A a clip 28 which can be fixed on a flange 16A of the support table by a screw 30 therethrough, in the image of a clamp vise fixed on a workbench.
  • the receiving tray has a level difference forming a groove 20A along the rear vertical wall 24 of the device.

Abstract

The device (14) has a receptacle for receiving mailpieces ejected one-by-one via an outlet slot of a franking machine (10). A longitudinal referencing wall extends over a longitudinal edge of the receptacle perpendicularly to the outlet slot. The mailpieces rebound against the referencing wall before accumulating on the receptacle. A vertical back wall forms an angle alpha perpendicular to the referencing wall. The receptacle is inclined toward the referencing wall at an angle such that the angle alpha between the receptacle and the referencing wall forms an acute angle.

Description

Domaine de l'inventionField of the invention

La présente invention se rapporte au domaine du traitement de courrier et elle concerne plus particulièrement un dispositif de stockage (drop stacker) pour machine à affranchir.The present invention relates to the field of mail processing and more particularly relates to a storage device (drop stacker) for franking machine.

Art AntérieurPrevious Art

Les machines à affranchir actuelles sont de plus en plus rapides et pour répondre à ces cadences d'affranchissement élevées, il est nécessaire d'accroire leurs capacités d'alimentation et de stockage pour éviter à l'opérateur d'avoir à charger et décharger constamment la machine. Toutefois, cette augmentation de la capacité d'alimentation et de stockage ne doit pas ce faire au détriment de l'espace dévolu à la machine à affranchir ou de la gestion par l'opérateur.Current franking machines are becoming faster and to meet these high postage rates, it is necessary to increase their power supply and storage capacity to avoid the operator having to constantly load and unload the machine. However, this increase in the capacity of supply and storage must not do this to the detriment of the space devolved to the franking machine or management by the operator.

Si ce problème peut être résolu simplement pour les dispositifs d'alimentation dans lesquels les articles de courrier sont disposés en une pile verticale et où l'augmentation de la hauteur de la pile n'entraîne pas une modification de l'emprise au sol du module, il en va tout autrement dans les dispositifs de stockage où ces mêmes articles de courrier sont, de façon classique, stockés horizontalement et où une augmentation des articles ainsi stockés implique nécessairement une augmentation de la surface utile pour le stockage.If this problem can be solved simply for power devices in which the mail items are arranged in a vertical pile and where increasing the height of the stack does not cause a change in the footprint of the module , it is quite different in the storage devices where these same mail items are, in a conventional manner, stored horizontally and where an increase of the items thus stored necessarily implies an increase in the useful area for storage.

Dans la demande EP1443008 , la demanderesse a proposé un dispositif de stockage de structure particulièrement simple permettant une accumulation des articles de courrier à plat et dont la capacité de stockage est relativement importante du fait de sa disposition en contrebas de la machine à affranchir. Toutefois, cette solution de stockage par accumulation à plat n'est pas pleinement satisfaisante car elle ne permet pas d'assurer un fonctionnement correct pour des articles de courrier de différents formats dont le maintien en place est délicat. De plus, la vitesse d'éjection des courriers (de format identiques) dans une machine à haute cadence, entraîne des rebonds non maitrisés qui conduisent dans le meilleur des cas à la formation d'une pile non uniforme.In the request EP1443008 , the Applicant has proposed a particularly simple structure storage device allowing an accumulation of flat mail items and whose storage capacity is relatively large because of its arrangement below the franking machine. However, this flat storage storage solution is not fully satisfactory because it does not allow to ensure proper operation for mail items of different sizes whose maintenance in place is difficult. In addition, the ejection speed of the letters (identical format) in a high-speed machine, leads to unmaintained rebounds that lead in the best case to the formation of a non-uniform stack.

But et objet de l'inventionPurpose and object of the invention

La présente invention se propose de pallier les inconvénients précités avec un dispositif de stockage pour machine à affranchir comportant :

  • · un plateau de réception pour recevoir des articles de courrier éjectés un à un par ladite machine à affranchir,
  • · une paroi longitudinale de mise en référence s'étendant sur un bord longitudinal dudit plateau de réception et contre laquelle lesdits articles de courrier vont venir rebondir avant de s'accumuler sur ledit plateau de réception, et
  • · une paroi arrière verticale s'étendant sur un bord latéral dudit plateau de réception et contre laquelle lesdits articles de courrier vont venir frapper avant de rebondir contre ladite paroi longitudinale de mise en référence, ladite paroi arrière verticale faisant avec une perpendiculaire à ladite paroi longitudinale de mise en référence un angle β, et
ledit plateau de réception est incliné par rapport à l'horizontale et vers ladite paroi longitudinale de mise en référence d'un angle ϕ de sorte que l'angle a entre ledit plateau de réception et ladite paroi longitudinale de mise en référence forme un angle aigu.The present invention proposes to overcome the aforementioned drawbacks with a storage device for a franking machine comprising:
  • A receiving tray for receiving mail items ejected one by one by said franking machine,
  • A longitudinal referencing wall extending over a longitudinal edge of said receiving tray and against which said mailpieces will come to bounce before accumulating on said receiving tray, and
  • A vertical rear wall extending on a lateral edge of said receiving plate and against which said mailpieces will strike before bouncing against said longitudinal referencing wall, said vertical rear wall forming with a perpendicular to said longitudinal wall; referencing an angle β, and
said receiving plate is inclined with respect to the horizontal and toward said longitudinal referencing wall by an angle φ so that the angle α between said receiving plate and said longitudinal referencing wall forms an acute angle .

Ainsi, par cette double inclinaison et l'angle aigu formé entre le plateau de réception et la paroi longitudinale de mise en référence, il est possible de d'accumuler avec une cadence rapide un nombre important d'articles de courrier en formant une pile taquée uniformément.Thus, by this double inclination and the acute angle formed between the receiving plate and the longitudinal reference wall, it is possible to accumulate with a fast rate a large number of mail items forming a torn pile uniformly.

De préférence, ladite paroi longitudinale de mise en référence est inclinée par rapport à la verticale et vers ledit plateau de réception d'un angle Δ, ledit angle Δ étant compris entre 0,3° et 2,5°, typiquement 1,31°.Preferably, said longitudinal referencing wall is inclined with respect to the vertical and towards said receiving plate by an angle Δ, said angle Δ being between 0.3 ° and 2.5 °, typically 1.31 ° .

Avantageusement, ledit angle ϕ est compris entre 3° et 43°, typiquement 23° et ledit angle β est compris entre 1,30° et 5,30°, typiquement 3,30°.Advantageously, said angle φ is between 3 ° and 43 °, typically 23 ° and said angle β is between 1.30 ° and 5.30 °, typically 3.30 °.

De préférence, le dispositif de stockage comporte en outre une paroi avant verticale sur laquelle est solidarisée une agrafe destinée à être fixée sur un rebord d'une table support de ladite machine à affranchir et ledit plateau de réception comporte une rainure formée le long de ladite paroi arrière verticale pour permettre la préhension des articles de courrier affranchis.Preferably, the storage device further comprises a vertical front wall on which is secured a clip intended to be fixed on a rim of a support table of said franking machine and said receiving plate has a groove formed along said vertical back wall to allow gripping of franked mail items.

Brève description des dessinsBrief description of the drawings

D'autres caractéristiques et avantages de la présente invention ressortiront mieux de la description suivante, faite à titre indicatif et non limitatif, en regard des dessins annexés, sur lesquels :

  • la figure 1 illustre une vue d'une ligne d'affranchissement comportant un dispositif de stockage selon l'invention, et
  • les figures 2A, 2B et 2C sont des vues respectivement de face, de coté et de dessus du dispositif de stockage de la figure 1.
Other characteristics and advantages of the present invention will emerge more clearly from the following description, given by way of non-limiting indication, with reference to the appended drawings, in which:
  • the figure 1 illustrates a view of a franking line comprising a storage device according to the invention, and
  • the FIGS. 2A, 2B and 2C are respectively front, side and top views of the storage device of the figure 1 .

Description de mode(s) de réalisationDescription of mode (s) of realization

La figure 1 illustre une ligne d'affranchissement d'articles de courrier telle qu'elle se présente couramment dans un service courrier d'une entreprise ou d'une administration, avec une machine d'affranchissement 10 précédée par un dispositif 12 d'alimentation en articles de courrier et suivie d'un dispositif 14 de stockage des articles de courrier affranchis. Le dispositif d'alimentation et la machine à affranchir sont classiquement disposés sur une table support 16, pour être au niveau de l'opérateur de la machine, le dispositif de stockage étant placé en contrebas pour permettre une accumulation des articles de courriers affranchis.The figure 1 illustrates a franking line of mail items as commonly present in a courier service of a company or an administration, with a franking machine 10 preceded by a device 12 for supplying articles of mail. mail and followed by a device 14 for storing the franked mail items. The feeding device and the franking machine are conventionally arranged on a support table 16, to be at the operator of the machine, the storage device being placed below to allow an accumulation of mail items franked.

Conformément à l'invention et comme l'illustrent les figures 2A à 2C, le dispositif de stockage comporte un plateau de réception 20 sensiblement rectangulaire, une paroi longitudinale de mise en référence 22 disposée sur un bord longitudinal de ce plateau et une paroi verticale arrière ou de fond 24 disposée sur un bord latéral de ce plateau. Le plateau de réception est incliné par rapport à l'horizontale et vers la paroi longitudinale de mise en référence d'un angle ϕ compris entre 3° et 43°, typiquement 23°. La paroi longitudinale de mise en référence est elle-même inclinée par rapport à la verticale et vers le plateau de réception d'un angle Δ compris entre 0,3° et 2,5°, typiquement 1,31°, de sorte que l'angle a entre la paroi longitudinale de mise en référence et le plateau de réception forme un angle aigu inférieur à 90° et typiquement de l'ordre de 65°. La paroi verticale de fond, quant à elle, fait avec une perpendiculaire à la paroi longitudinale de mise en référence un angle β compris entre 1,30° et 5,30°, typiquement 3,30°.In accordance with the invention and as illustrated by FIGS. 2A to 2C , the storage device comprises a substantially rectangular receiving plate 20, a longitudinal referencing wall 22 disposed on a longitudinal edge of this plate and a vertical rear wall or bottom 24 disposed on a lateral edge of this plate. The receiving plate is inclined relative to the horizontal and towards the longitudinal reference wall by an angle φ of between 3 ° and 43 °, typically 23 °. The longitudinal referencing wall is itself inclined with respect to the vertical and towards the receiving plate by an angle Δ of between 0.3 ° and 2.5 °, typically 1.31 °, so that the The angle α between the longitudinal referencing wall and the receiving plate forms an acute angle of less than 90 ° and typically of the order of 65 °. The vertical bottom wall, meanwhile, is made with a perpendicular to the longitudinal referencing wall an angle β between 1.30 ° and 5.30 °, typically 3.30 °.

L'inclinaison du plateau de réception 20 vers la paroi longitudinale de mise en référence 22 est nécessaire pour compenser l'inclinaison naturelle due à l'épaisseur des rabats qui lors de l'accumulation des articles de courrier dans le dispositif aurait tendance à provoquer le chute de ces articles de courrier du coté opposé à la paroi longitudinale de mise en référence. L'inventeur a ainsi pu déterminer qu'une inclinaison de 23° convenait parfaitement pour un dispositif de stockage permettant l'accumulation d'une pile de 60 articles de courrier alors qu'une inclinaison de 43° était plus adaptée à une pile pouvant recevoir jusqu'à 600 de ces articles superposés.The inclination of the receiving plate 20 towards the longitudinal referencing wall 22 is necessary to compensate for the natural inclination due to the thickness of the flaps which during the accumulation of the mail items in the device would tend to cause the falling of these mail items on the opposite side to the longitudinal reference wall. The inventor has thus been able to determine that an inclination of 23 ° is perfectly suitable for a storage device allowing the accumulation of a stack of 60 mail items while a tilt of 43 ° was more suitable for a stack able to receive up to 600 of these overlapping items.

De même, l'inclinaison de la paroi verticale arrière 24 permet d'améliorer l'alignement des articles de courrier car en l'absence d'une telle inclinaison (c'est-à-dire avec une paroi parfaitement perpendiculaire à la paroi longitudinale de mise en référence), il n'est pas possible de prévoir le rebond des articles de courrier, dont l'éjection de la machine à affranchir n'est jamais parfaitement parallèle, qui peuvent alors aussi bien rebondir contre la paroi longitudinale de mise en référence que, à l'opposée, vers l'extérieur du dispositif. Au contraire, la faible inclinaison de seulement quelques degrés, en assurant un premier contact ponctuel quasi systématique avec l'angle avant droit de chaque article de courrier, permet de garantir à tout coup un rebond vers la paroi longitudinale de mise en référence 22. De plus, ce contact ponctuel (et non avec le bord entier de l'article de courrier), favorise un ralentissement et un rebond moindre de l'article de courrier.Similarly, the inclination of the rear vertical wall 24 improves the alignment of the mail items because in the absence of such inclination (that is to say with a wall perfectly perpendicular to the longitudinal wall referencing), it is not possible to predict the rebound of mail items, the ejection of the franking machine is never perfectly parallel, which can then as well bounce against the longitudinal wall of implementation reference that, on the opposite side, towards the outside of the device. On the contrary, the small inclination of only a few degrees, by providing a first almost systematic point contact with the right front corner of each article of mail, makes it possible to guarantee a sudden rebound towards the longitudinal referencing wall 22. Moreover, this one-time contact (and not with the entire edge of the mail item), promotes a slower and a lesser rebound of the mail item.

Cette double inclinaison du plateau de réception et de la paroi verticale de fond effective, l'inventeur a pu constater que le ralentissement obtenu pouvait encore être amélioré à l'issue du rebond de l'article de courrier contre la paroi longitudinale de mise en référence en inclinant cette dernière vers le plateau de réception d'un très faible angle d'inclinaison. Ainsi, cette triple inclinaison permet d'obtenir un dispositif de stockage particulièrement performant acceptant tous les formats d'articles de courrier.This double inclination of the receiving plate and the effective vertical bottom wall, the inventor has found that the resulting slowing could be further improved after the rebound of the mail article against the longitudinal wall reference by tilting the latter towards the receiving tray with a very low angle of inclination. Thus, this triple inclination provides a particularly efficient storage device accepting all formats of mail items.

Pour aligner le dispositif de stockage avec la machine à affranchir, plus précisément avec sa fente de sortie par laquelle sont éjectés un à un les articles de courrier, le dispositif de stockage comporte également sur son bord latéral avant une paroi verticale 26 sur laquelle est solidarisée par des fixations 28A une agrafe 28 qui peut être fixée sur un rebord 16A de la table support par une vis de pression 30 la traversant, à l'image d'un étau à agrafe fixé sur un établi.To align the storage device with the franking machine, specifically with its output slot by which are ejected one by one the mail items, the storage device also has on its side edge before a vertical wall 26 on which is secured by fasteners 28A a clip 28 which can be fixed on a flange 16A of the support table by a screw 30 therethrough, in the image of a clamp vise fixed on a workbench.

En outre, pour faciliter la préhension des articles de courrier affranchis, le plateau de réception comporte une différence de niveau formant une rainure 20A le long de la paroi verticale arrière 24 du dispositif.In addition, to facilitate the gripping of franked mail items, the receiving tray has a level difference forming a groove 20A along the rear vertical wall 24 of the device.

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Dispositif de stockage (14) pour machine à affranchir (10) comportant : . un plateau de réception (20) pour recevoir des articles de courrier éjectés un à un par ladite machine à affranchir, . une paroi longitudinale de mise en référence (22) s'étendant sur un bord longitudinal dudit plateau de réception et contre laquelle lesdits articles de courrier vont venir rebondir avant de s'accumuler sur ledit plateau de réception, et . une paroi arrière verticale (24) s'étendant sur un bord latéral dudit plateau de réception et contre laquelle lesdits articles de courrier vont venir frapper avant de rebondir contre ladite paroi longitudinale de mise en référence, ladite paroi arrière verticale faisant avec une perpendiculaire à ladite paroi longitudinale de mise en référence un angle β, et
ledit plateau de réception est incliné par rapport à l'horizontale et vers ladite paroi longitudinale de mise en référence d'un angle ϕ de sorte que l'angle a entre ledit plateau de réception et ladite paroi longitudinale de mise en référence forme un angle aigu.A storage device (14) for a franking machine (10) comprising: . a receiving tray (20) for receiving mail items ejected one by one by said postage meter, . a longitudinal referencing wall (22) extending over a longitudinal edge of said receiving tray and against which said mail items will bounce before accumulating on said receiving tray, and . a vertical rear wall (24) extending on a side edge of said receiving tray and against which said mail items will strike before bouncing against said longitudinal referencing wall, said vertical rear wall forming with a perpendicular to said longitudinal reference wall an angle β, and
said receiving plate is inclined with respect to the horizontal and toward said longitudinal referencing wall by an angle φ so that the angle α between said receiving plate and said longitudinal referencing wall forms an acute angle . Dispositif de stockage selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que ladite paroi longitudinale de mise en référence est inclinée par rapport à la verticale et vers ledit plateau de réception d'un angle Δ.Storage device according to claim 1, characterized in that said longitudinal referencing wall is inclined with respect to the vertical and towards said receiving plate by an angle Δ. Dispositif de stockage selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que ledit angle Δ est compris entre 0,3° et 2,5°, typiquement 1,31°.Storage device according to claim 2, characterized in that said angle Δ is between 0.3 ° and 2.5 °, typically 1.31 °. Dispositif de stockage selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que ledit angle ϕ est compris entre 3° et 43°, typiquement 23°.Storage device according to claim 1, characterized in that said angle φ is between 3 ° and 43 °, typically 23 °. Dispositif de stockage selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que ledit angle β est compris entre 1,30° et 5,30°, typiquement 3,30°.Storage device according to claim 1, characterized in that said angle β is between 1.30 ° and 5.30 °, typically 3.30 °. Dispositif de stockage selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce qu'il comporte en outre une paroi avant verticale (26) sur laquelle est solidarisée une agrafe (28) destinée à être fixée sur un rebord (16A) d'une table support de ladite machine à affranchir.Storage device according to claim 1, characterized in that it further comprises a vertical front wall (26) on which is secured a clip (28) intended to be fixed on a flange (16A) of a support table of said stamp machine. Dispositif de stockage selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que ledit plateau de réception comporte une rainure (20A) formée le long de ladite paroi verticale arrière pour permettre la préhension des articles de courrier affranchis.A storage device according to claim 1, characterized in that said receiving tray has a groove (20A) formed along said rear vertical wall for gripping the franked mail items.
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