EP2481610A1 - Système d'insertion - Google Patents

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EP2481610A1
EP2481610A1 EP11152804A EP11152804A EP2481610A1 EP 2481610 A1 EP2481610 A1 EP 2481610A1 EP 11152804 A EP11152804 A EP 11152804A EP 11152804 A EP11152804 A EP 11152804A EP 2481610 A1 EP2481610 A1 EP 2481610A1
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Christiaan Antoon Munneke
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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
    • B43M3/02—Devices for inserting documents into envelopes equipped with documents-folding 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
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
    • B65H2301/42—Piling, depiling, handling piles
    • B65H2301/421—Forming a pile
    • B65H2301/4213—Forming a pile of a limited number of articles, e.g. buffering, forming bundles
    • 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
    • B65H2404/20—Belts
    • B65H2404/23—Belts with auxiliary handling means
    • B65H2404/232—Blade, plate, finger

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  • the invention relates to an inserting system for feeding postal items and envelopes from respective stocks to an inserting station where postal items are inserted into envelopes.
  • Such an inserting system is known from US-A1-2004/0035528 .
  • holders of the feeders for holding postal items and envelopes are arranged on opposite sides of a tower portion and the inserting station extends on a side of the tower portion under a holder of one of the feeders.
  • a mailpiece holder is arranged to a side of the inserting station facing away from the tower portion.
  • An advantage of such an arrangement is that the footprint of the system is relatively small and the holders are nevertheless accessible, because holders can be arranged above each other and/or above the inserting station.
  • a small footprint is particularly relevant for inserting systems that are used in organizations that send relatively small numbers of mailpieces and therefore have no mailroom or only a small mailroom.
  • the mailpiece holder Passing the completed mailpieces to a mailpiece holder on a side of the tower portion opposite of the side of the tower portion where the inserting station is located allows the mailpiece holder to be arranged in a vertical array with one or more of the holders of the feeders, while being easily accessible for unloading completed mailpieces. Accordingly, the mailpiece holder adds little or nothing to the overall footprint (the area within the contour of the apparatus in top plan view) of the inserting system.
  • Fig. 1 a schematic side elevation, partly in cross-section, of an inserting system 1 is shown.
  • the inserting system 1 has postal item feeders in the form of three document feeders 2, 3, 4 for feeding documents and an insert feeder 7 for feeding inserts.
  • postal items are understood to constitute the items to be inserted into the envelopes.
  • an envelope feeder 5 for feeding envelopes is provided in a housing 6 of the inserting system.
  • a folding station 8 an inserting station 9 are arranged in a housing 6 of the inserting system.
  • the housing has a tower portion 56 projecting upwardly of the inserting station 9.
  • a mailpiece holder 10 for receiving completed mailpieces 11 is arranged on a side of the tower portion of the housing 6 opposite to the side at which the inserting station 9 projects from the tower portion 56 of the housing 6.
  • Each document feeder 2, 3, 4 has a document holder 12, 13, 14 for holding a stack 15, 16, 17 of documents and a separating system 18, 19, 20 for separating and transporting a document or document set from the stack 15, 16, 17 and transporting it further into the inserting system 1.
  • the feeder 4 may be dedicated or settable for processing daily mail, in which case a plurality of stacked documents loaded into the holder 14 (for instance a document set) is not separated but transported integrally from the feeder to a document transport path.
  • the envelope feeder 5 and the insert feeder 7 may both function as a feeder for sheetlike items, such as envelopes, inserts, or documents. Hence it is possible to have two separate envelope feeders. In an alternative embodiment it is also possible to have e.g. two insert feeders, where the envelope feeder is located elsewhere in the system (not shown in the drawings).
  • the envelope feeder 5 has an envelope holder 21 for holding a stack 22 of envelopes and a separating system 23 for separating and transporting a single envelope from the stack 22 and transporting it further into the inserting system 1.
  • the insert feeder 7 has an insert holder 24 for holding a stack 25 of inserts and a separating system 26 for separating and transporting a single insert from the stack 25 and transporting it further into the inserting system 1.
  • the insert can be any of a wide variety of enclosures, such as a greeting card, a business card, a reply envelope or a sheet to be folded.
  • the holder 24 of the insert feeder 7 projects horizontally from the tower portion 56 on a first side of the tower portion 56 while the holders 12, 13, 14 of the document feeders 2, 3, 4, the holders 21 of the envelope feeder 5 and the inserting station project horizontally from the tower portion 56 on a second side of the tower portion 56 opposite of the first side.
  • the folding station 8 has a first pair of folding rollers 27, 28 forming a first folding nip there between and a second pair of folding rollers 28, 29 forming a second folding nip there between.
  • one of the folding rollers of the first pair of folding rollers and one of the folding rollers of the second pair of folding rollers are formed by one and the same folding roller 28, but it is also possible that in an alternative embodiment the first and second pair of folding rollers do not comprise a common folding roller.
  • the inserting station 9 comprises an envelope holder 30 for holding an envelope 32 in an inserting position 31, and a flap hold-open element 33 for holding open a flap 34 of the envelope 32 held in the envelope holder 30.
  • the envelope holder and the flap hold-open element are not depicted in detail, since these elements are known per se.
  • the flap hold-open element and envelope holder as described in EP-A1-2.123.474 can be used in the inventive inserting system.
  • the inserting station 9 is connected to the folding station 8 in a manner known per se.
  • a first transport arrangement for transporting postal items from document and insert feeders to the inserting position and for transporting envelopes from the envelope feeder to the mailpiece holder is arranged as follows.
  • a document transport path 35 for transporting documents from the stack 16 of documents extends through the folding station 8 to the inserting position 31.
  • a document transport path 36 extends into the document transport path 35 for transporting documents from the stack 15 of documents through the folding station 8 to the inserting position 31.
  • a document transport path 37 extends into the document transport path 36 for transporting documents, from the stack 17 of documents through the folding station 8 to the inserting position 31.
  • an envelope transport path 38 for transporting an envelope from the stack 22 of envelopes extends through the second folding nip formed between the second pair of folding rollers 28, 29 to the inserting position 31.
  • an insert transport path 39 enters into the envelope transport path 38 for transporting an insert from the stack 25 of inserts through the second folding nip formed between the second pair of folding rollers 28, 29 to the inserting position 31.
  • the insert transport path coincides at least for a part with the envelope transport path.
  • the insert transport path may be completely separate from the envelope transport path.
  • the transport paths 35-39 constitute a transport path structure having tower sections descending from the document, insert and envelope feeders 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 through the tower portion 56 of the inserting system, and curved sections under and downstream of the respective tower sections and extending towards the inserting position 31.
  • the insert transport path 38, 39 comprises a diverter 40.
  • This diverter 40 defines a first insert transport path part a between the insert feeder 7 and the diverter 40.
  • a second insert transport path part through which an insert can be transported is formed by a further curved section in the form of a cross-over path 41 which passes to the document transport path 35 and the (final) part of the document transport path 35.
  • the diverted insert passes through the first and the second folding nip, and is finally transported to the inserting position 31.
  • the insert transport path is formed by the first insert transport path part a, the cross-over path 41 and a (final) part of the document transport path 35.
  • a stop 42 may be present to collate inserts.
  • Such a stop or other means for collating inserts is known per se, and by way of non-limiting example reference is made to EP-A-2 107 021 .
  • the diverter 40 is operable to selectively divert inserts to be transported from the insert feeder 7 to the inserting position 31 by the first insert transport path part a and the second insert transport path part (41 and final part of 35) or the first insert transport path part a and the third insert transport path part (portion of envelope transport path 38 between diverter 40 and inserting position 31).
  • the diverter 40' is placed in the position indicated by dotted lines and the insert or BRE will be sent through the third insert transport path part and bypasses the first folding nip.
  • the insert is then inserted into the second fold of the documents, so that the insert or BRE will be nested inside the main documents and will not fall out of the envelope easily when the recipient opens the letter.
  • the diverter 40 can be placed in the position indicated by the solid lines so that the insert or BRE passes through the first folding nip as well as the second folding nip (which folding stations form substations of the inserting system). This is mostly the case when a single fold is applied to the BRE or insert, in order to allow the insert or BRE to be nested inside the main documents.
  • the diverter could be operated manually, it is presently most preferred to automatically operate said diverter to selectively divert inserts either from the insert feeder to the inserting position by the first insert transport path part and the second insert transport path part or from the insert feeder to the inserting position by the first insert transport path part and the third insert transport path part.
  • Such an automatic operation could be obtained based on one or more parameters chosen from the group consisting of fold length, fold type, length of a document, length of an envelope and length, thickness and stiffness of an insert. If e.g. for a specific type of mail pieces to be completed from a number or batch of sheetlike items these parameters are known beforehand these parameters could be inputted in a control unit controlling the operation of the inserting system.
  • control unit Based on the inputted parameters said control unit is then able to place the diverter in the desired position.
  • relevant parameters such as the fold length, the length of a document, the length of an envelope and/or the length, thockness and/or stiffness of an insert could be measured automatically.
  • the inserting system comprises sensors or scanners or other means which are known per se.
  • the control unit could for example control the operation of the inserting system to determine automatically which way the insert should go based on the following algorithm:
  • the diverter is placed in the position in which the inserts are sent to the first folding nip if possible, because if the diverter would be positioned such that the inserts would be sent via the second folding nip the inserts would not be nested inside the folded documents and, depending on the length of the enclosure and the envelope, the enclosure might not fit into the envelope.
  • control unit could be provided with an override input so that an operator can choose to overrule the automatic insert path selection.
  • the envelope transport path 38 can be divided into a first envelope transport path part, which is arranged between the envelope feeder 5 and the diverter 40 and a second envelope transport path part, which is arranged between the diverter 40 and the inserting position 31.
  • the paths are arranged such that a portion of the first envelope transport path part coincides with a portion of the first insert transport path part, and such that the second envelope transport path part and third insert transport path part coincide.
  • the envelope transport path 38 and the document transport path 35 upstream of the second folding nip 28, 29 are separate so that documents and envelopes can be transported independently of each other and for example simultaneously thus increasing the output rate of the inserting system.
  • the inserting system 1 further comprises a plate 43 having a first side 45 and an opposite second side 44.
  • the envelope and insert transport path 38 is partly formed between a first paper item transport guide formed by the first side 45 of the plate 43 and a second paper item transport guide formed by a guide plate 46 and a number of transport rollers of which only two 47 and 47' are indicated in Fig. 1 .
  • the transport rollers 47, 47' in the first paper item transport guide are driven rollers which can be brought into contact with non-driven rollers 56, 56' ( Fig. 3 ) arranged on the plate 43
  • the document transport path 35 is partly formed by the second side 44 of the plate 43 (forming a third paper item transport guide) and a fourth paper item transport guide formed by a guide plate 48 and a number of transport rollers of which only two 49 and 49' are indicated in Fig. 1 .
  • a substation e.g. formed by a collating station, a folding station or an insert station
  • the rollers 49, 49' in the fourth paper item transport guide are driven rollers which can be brought into contact with non-driven rollers and 57, 57' ( Fig. 2 ) respectively, arranged on the plate 43.
  • transport rollers are shown, the invention is not limited to inserting systems with rollers for defining transport paths and driving transport of postal items, envelopes and/or mailpieces, but also encompasses inserting systems with other transport means such as belts, strings, a gripper mechanism or any other known transport mechanism or a combination of any other known transport means.
  • the non-driven transport means in the plate will rotate when they are in contact with the driven transport means.
  • the plate comprises non-driven transport means.
  • the plate can also possible to provide the plate with a smooth guide plate, optionally provided with holes on the position of the driven transport means on the opposite side of the paper path.
  • the fourth paper item transport guide 48 together with amongst other things the document feeders, the envelope feeder and part of the housing 6 are mounted in the inserting system so as to be rotatable around a first rotation axis 50, which is arranged near an upper side of the inserting system 1.
  • this upper part of the inserting machine can be rotated upward around the rotation axis 50 as indicated by the arrow 53.
  • This part of the inserting machine is supported on opposite sides by e.g. hydraulic or pneumatic cylinders 51, 52.
  • the fourth paper item transport guide 48 and the third paper item transport guide 44 are separated so that the document transport path is made accessible e.g. for maintenance or removal of jammed documents.
  • the plate 43 is mounted in the inserting system 1 so as to be rotatable around a second rotation axis 54, which is arranged on a lower machine part near a lower side of the inserting system 1.
  • the plate 43 can thus be rotated around the second rotation axis 54 in a second rotation direction (arrow 55).
  • This causes that the second paper item transport guide 45 is rotated away from the first paper item transport guide 46 so that the envelope transport path is made accessible, e.g. for maintenance or removal of jammed envelopes or inserts.
  • the rotation directions 53, 55 can be opposite.
  • the plate could be mounted so as to be rotatable together with the upper machine part when this upper machine part is rotated upward around the rotation axis as indicated by the arrow 53 in Fig. 2 , so that the separation of the machine parts will take place between the first and second guides.
  • the plate 43 could then be mounted to the upper machine part so as to be rotatable around a rotation axis.
  • the rotation axes could be positioned at approximately the same level of the machine.
  • the plate could be mounted to the upper and lower machine part by other means than a rotation axis, such as a parallelogram construction or other construction forcing a more or less rectilinear movement of the plate relative to the machine part, as long as the plate can be moved away from the relative machine part to allow access to the relevant paper path.
  • the plate could be mounted in the inserting system so as to be completely removable from the upper and lower machine parts.
  • the plate may be divided into two or more parts that may be opened together but also individually.
  • the plate 43 can be equipped with sensors for paper detection and/or scanners for scanning a document transported through a transport path. These sensors and/or scanners can be movably mounted so that the sensors and/or scanners can be directed to either one of the transport paths.
  • the diverter 40 can also be arranged on the plate 43, but can alternatively be arranged in or near the first paper item transport guide.
  • the inserting system has a second transport arrangement for transporting envelopes with postal items inserted therein from the inserting position 31 to the mailpiece holder 10 on the opposite side of the tower portion 56. Because the mailpiece holder 10 projects horizontally relative to the tower portion 56 at the same side of the tower portion 56 as a holder 24 of one of the feeders 7, the footprint of the mailpiece holder 10 coincides for a large part with a portion of the overall footprint that is already occupied by the holder 24. Accordingly, the mailpiece holder adds relatively little to the footprint of the inserting system.
  • the second transport arrangement has an upstream section 57 extending from the inserting position 31 on a side opposite of the curved section of the first transport arrangement and of the mailpiece holder 10.
  • the second transport arrangement further has a downstream section 58 extending downstream of the upstream section 57 to the mailpiece holder 10 and passing underneath the inserting position 31 and the first transport arrangement.
  • a switch 59 is arranged between the upstream and downstream sections 57, 58 of the second transport arrangement.
  • the switch 59 has a pair of rollers 60, 61 defining a nip between circumferential surfaces of these rollers 60, 61.
  • the nip is arranged for receiving mailpieces 62 from the upstream section 57 and for feeding received mailpieces 62' into the downstream section 58.
  • One of the rollers 61 is coupled to a drive structure 63 (schematically shown) for driving the roller 61 and for reversing a sense of rotation of that roller.
  • the orientation of the nip is in an angular range between a first direction of transport of the upstream section 57 where it reaches the nip and a second direction of transport of the downstream section 58 where it departs from the nip.
  • This causes a mailpiece 62 to turn from the orientation shown in dash and dot lines 62' to an orientation shown in full lines 62 when the mailpiece 62 is released by the upstream section 57.
  • the orientation of the nip is closer to the direction of transport of the downstream section 58 where it departs from the nip than to the direction of transport of the upstream section 57 where it reaches the nip.
  • the orientation of the nip may also be (essentially) in-line with the direction of transport of the downstream section 58 where it departs from the nip.
  • reducing the angle between the orientation of the nip and the direction of transport in which the upstream section reaches the nip is advantageous for reliably feeding mailpieces into the nip and reducing the extent to which mailpieces are bent during transport into the nip.
  • a portion of the downstream section adjacent to the nip is bounded by a guide 64 constituting a guide wall 64 converging with an opposite surface for guiding mailpieces 62' into a further, narrower portion of the downstream section 58.
  • the downstream section 58 of the second transport arrangement has a guide surface 65 that is bellied out such that it is curved in a plane in transport direction and a transport belt 66 tensioned in the transport direction against the guide surface 65.
  • a transport path in which mailpieces are clamped between an outwardly curved guide surface and a guide belt tensioned along that surface allows to reliably transport mailpieces of widely varying thicknesses and sizes without requiring adjustments, while constituting a simple, low-cost construction.
  • the absence of rollers on one side of the downstream section 58 allows the guides defining downstream section 58 to be of a particularly slender construction.
  • At least a portion of the guide surface 65 in contact with the transport belt 66 is constituted by a surface of polyethylene material. This reduces friction between the belt and the guide surface as well as between the guide surface and mailpieces transported along the guide surface. Furthermore, the polyethylene guide surface is durable and staining of the mailpieces by material abrased from mailpieces or the belt is avoided or at least reduced to an acceptable minimum.
  • the polyethylene is an ultra high molecular weight polyethylene material.
  • the polyethylene is preferably of an anti-static type, for instance of a blend containing a conductive additive or filling material.
  • At least an outer surface of the belt in contact with the guide surface is preferably a surface of a polyurethane material.
  • a polyurethane material combines sufficient friction to impart traction upon the mailpieces, while being durable generating relatively little friction relative to the polyethylene material.
  • the first transport arrangement may be constituted by a single path for transporting both envelopes and postal items to be inserted therein or by completely separate paths for transporting envelopes and postal items to be inserted therein.
  • the switch between the upstream and downstream sections of the second transport arrangement may for instance be provided in a form as schematically illustrated by Fig. 4 .
  • one of the rollers 161 of the rollers 160, 161 of the switch 159 is pivotably suspended such that the orientation of the nip can alternatingly be switched between a receiving orientation (arrow 167) and a feeding orientation (arrow 168).
  • a first one of the rollers 161 of the rollers 160, 161 of the switch 159 is pivotably suspended such that its axis can pivot about the axis of the other roller 160.
  • the first one of the rollers is suspended via pivotable swing arms 169 that are pivotable about the axis of the other roller 160.
  • a control arm 170 projects from the swing arm 169 and is coupled to a solenoid 171.
  • the solenoid 171 By operating the solenoid 171, the position of the first roller 161 can be changed from the position 161' shown in dash and dot lines to the position 161 shown in full lines.
  • the mailpiece 162 is then fed into the downstream section 158 of the second transport arrangement.
  • changing of the orientation of the nip may also be accomplished by providing that resistance of the entrained roller 160 causes the lower, driven roller to roll over the circumference of the upper, driven roller between a receiving position and a feeding position.
  • the range of the motion of the swing arm is preferably limited by stops. If the sense of rotation of the driven roller is inverted, the orientation of the nip is switched from the receiving orientation to the feeding orientation or vice versa.
  • the upper, driven roller may be suspended via swing arms that are pivotable about the axis of the lower, driven roller so that the arms and the upper, driven roller are entrained in a range limited by stops between the receiving position and a feeding position in response to inverting the sense of rotation of the lower, driven roller.
  • the receiving orientation and the feeding orientation are preferably in line with the upstream section 157 and, respectively, the downstream section 158, it is in principle sufficient if the receiving orientation is closer to a direction of transport of the upstream section, where it reaches the nip, than the feeding orientation.

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US6027107A (en) * 1997-03-06 2000-02-22 Minolta Co., Ltd. Image forming apparatus capable of a plurality of processes on sheet provided with image
EP0983871A1 (fr) * 1998-09-02 2000-03-08 Neopost Industrie Plieuse/inséreuse à chemin d'encarts séparé
US20060151934A1 (en) * 2005-01-12 2006-07-13 Pitney Bowes Limited Jam access system for sheet handling apparatus
EP2107021A1 (fr) 2008-04-03 2009-10-07 Neopost Technologies Rassembler des articles postaux
EP2123474A1 (fr) 2008-05-20 2009-11-25 Neopost Technologies Procédé et appareil pour l'insertion d'un article postal dans une enveloppe

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US5689795A (en) * 1996-09-24 1997-11-18 Xerox Corporation Sheet transfer apparatus with adaptive speed-up delay
US6027107A (en) * 1997-03-06 2000-02-22 Minolta Co., Ltd. Image forming apparatus capable of a plurality of processes on sheet provided with image
EP0983871A1 (fr) * 1998-09-02 2000-03-08 Neopost Industrie Plieuse/inséreuse à chemin d'encarts séparé
US20060151934A1 (en) * 2005-01-12 2006-07-13 Pitney Bowes Limited Jam access system for sheet handling apparatus
EP2107021A1 (fr) 2008-04-03 2009-10-07 Neopost Technologies Rassembler des articles postaux
EP2123474A1 (fr) 2008-05-20 2009-11-25 Neopost Technologies Procédé et appareil pour l'insertion d'un article postal dans une enveloppe

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