EP2620399A1 - Sélecteur de courrier articulé - Google Patents

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EP2620399A1
EP2620399A1 EP12305100.5A EP12305100A EP2620399A1 EP 2620399 A1 EP2620399 A1 EP 2620399A1 EP 12305100 A EP12305100 A EP 12305100A EP 2620399 A1 EP2620399 A1 EP 2620399A1
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Stéphane Le Gallo
Dominique Bernard
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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
    • B65H3/46—Supplementary devices or measures to assist separation or prevent double feed
    • B65H3/56—Elements, e.g. scrapers, fingers, needles, brushes, acting on separated article or on edge of the 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
    • B65H3/02—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
    • B65H2402/00—Constructional details of the handling apparatus
    • B65H2402/50—Machine elements
    • B65H2402/54—Springs, e.g. helical or leaf springs
    • 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
    • B65H2403/50—Driving mechanisms
    • B65H2403/53—Articulated mechanisms
    • B65H2403/531—Planar mechanisms
    • 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 handling and more particularly to an envelope selection device for a high-speed envelope feeder of a franking machine or "postage meter” that manages the selection of thin and thick envelopes in order to avoid paper jam and double feeding.
  • This feeder typically a high-speed envelope feeder, is composed of a magazine, in which a stack of envelopes to frank is placed and of a selection module.
  • the role of the magazine is to bring small packets of envelopes to the selection module which has to extract each envelope one by one while ensuring a predetermined gap between each envelope. This gap is very important.
  • the franking machine located downstream the feeder will not be able to compute the imprint in time which causes the stop of the franking machine, whereas, if the gap is too big, the throughput of the franking machine will be slow down.
  • the applicant has proposed to add some flexible fingers over the path of the selection module to improve the envelope separation. Nevertheless, if a thick envelope arrives in the selection module, those fingers will apply a stronger effort than on a thin envelope. Indeed, at the beginning of a batch of envelopes to be processed the effort necessary to feed one envelope is much more important than the one needed at the end of the batch. Furthermore, the more the friction coefficient between two superimposed envelopes is important, harder it will be to separate the first bottom envelope from the stack.
  • the present invention solves the above problems by providing a different arrangement of the selection module of the feeder able to ensure that a correct selection will be performed whatever are the size of the stack and the friction coefficient between envelopes.
  • a selection module for separating envelopes one-by-one from a stack of envelopes and for transporting them downstream
  • said selection module comprises a plurality of articulated guides co-operating with a plurality of selector rollers to select said envelopes one-by-one and to transport them downstream
  • each of said plurality of articulated guides comprises two parts connected one to the other by a first extremity crossed by a common pivot connection, the respective second extremities of said two parts of said articulated guide being adapted to pivot about first and second pivot axis in opposition to first and second resilient return means as the envelopes pass over the selector rollers, said second pivot axis being offset downstream relative to said first pivot axis and said second resilient return means forms an inclination angle of about 45° regarding horizontally.
  • the lower part of the two parts articulated guide comprises a pad for increasing the friction effort on the envelope and the second extremity of the upper part of the two parts articulated guide pivots about the first pivot axis in opposition to an axial spring and, at a rest position, said upper part of the two parts articulated guide forms an inclination angle of about 50° regarding horizontally.
  • the second extremity of the lower part of the two parts articulated guide pivots about the second pivot axis in opposition to a compression spring and, at a rest position, said lower part of the two parts articulated guide forms an inclination angle of about 20° regarding horizontally.
  • the selection module further comprises a flap located upstream said plurality of articulated guides and said common pivot connection comprises a stop forbidden the lower part of the two parts articulated guide to rotate in a counter clockwise direction from its rest position.
  • the invention also concerns a feeder for a franking machine including a selection module as previously described.
  • a high-speed envelope feeder conventionally has a feed zone formed essentially by a deck designed to receive a stack of envelopes and including first transport rollers for driving the envelopes downstream (and against a referencing wall) at a separation zone having a selection module in which the envelopes are extracted one by one from the stack of envelopes.
  • Second transport rollers are, in general, provided at the outlet of said separation module for the purpose of conveying the envelopes extracted in this way downstream.
  • figures 1 to 3 show a selection module 10 of the invention, which module essentially comprises a plurality of two parts articulated guides (or selection fingers 12) which co-operates with a plurality of selector rollers 14 to select a single envelope only and to transport it downstream.
  • Each selection finger comprises upper and lower parts 120, 122 connected one to the other by a first extremity 120a, 122a crossed by a common pivot connection 16, a second extremity 120b of the upper part 120 of the selection finger being hinged about a first pivot axis 18, and can pivot in opposition to first resilient return means, e.g.
  • the front surface of the lower part 122 of the selection finger comprises a pad 122c to increase the friction effort on the envelope.
  • the second pivot axis is offset downstream relative to the first pivot axis and the first resilient return means is classically in abutment against a stop 20a of the upper part and secondly a portion of framework 26 of the selection module about which they can pivot.
  • the common pivot connection 16 can also be limited by a stop 160 that does not allow (from its rest position) the lower part 122 of the selection finger to rotate in the counter clockwise direction.
  • a flap 28 hinged about an axis 30 is placed before the separation zone upstream the plurality of articulated guides.
  • Each selection finger is not disposed perpendicularly to the transport path of the envelopes, but rather it is inclined downstream as shown, by an inclination angle ⁇ of about 50° for its upper part 120 and an inclination angle p of about 20° for its lower part 122. So, the whole finger is not closely in alignment (at 180°) but presents an inclination angle between its two parts of about 150° defining two zones of selection, one for singling thin envelopes (less than 6 mm corresponding sensibly to the height of the pivot connection 16 vis-à-vis the reference deck) and the other for singling thick envelopes (from 6 to 16 mm corresponding to the maximal height position of figure 3 ) or for retain the rest of the envelope pile to be selected and increase the pressure in the singling zone.
  • the two parts articulated guide is advantageously like a comb-shaped selector, with each of the selection fingers of the comb being disposed between two adjacent selector rollers.
  • the selection module of the invention operates as follows. When a thick (between 6 to 20mm) pile of envelopes approaches, it begins to enter into contact with the upper part 120 of the selection fingers which rotate around the first pivot axis 18 against the axial spring 20 (see for example figure 1 ). When the upper part 120 rotates about the first pivot axis 18 ( ⁇ decreases), the lower part 122 moves to the right and thus increase the vertical component of the effort applied to it. Indeed, three phenomena are combined, the spring force of the compression spring 24 increases, the lever arm of the application of the spring force to the pivot connection 16 is increased and the angle of the said force approaches the verticality.
  • the pressure of the pile of envelopes against the upper part 120 depend on the weight of the pile and of the friction coefficient between envelopes; the displacement of the upper part 120 will be a function of these two parameters and thus the variation of the vertical force on the pad 122c will also be a function of these two said parameters.
  • the envelope arrives in contact with the pad 122c of lower part 122 of the selection fingers if the pressure exerted by the pile of envelope on the upper part 120 of the selection finger is important ( ie. envelopes are difficult to separate), the force exerted by the compression spring 24 via the lower part 122 of the selection fingers is maximal on its bottom (close to the reference deck) which facilitate the separation of envelopes.
  • the general shape of the whole selection fingers has changed such that the orientation of the compression spring 24 is changed to decrease the force of selection on the lower part 122 of the selection fingers. Then the envelope arrives in contact with the lower part 122 of the selection fingers on the top (near the common pivot connection 16) which reduces the pressure exerted by the compression spring 24. Indeed, the force exerted by the compression spring via the lower part 122 of the selection fingers is maximal on its bottom (close to the reference deck).
  • the pile of envelopes must be shingled by the flap 28 when it reaches the separation zone.
  • the common pivot connection 16 comprises the stop 160, it is not only the lower part but the whole fingers (120 + 122) which rotate around the first pivot axis 18.
  • the resulting pressure on the envelope through the lower part 122 of the selection fingers is greater than if only the force of the compression spring 24 had been implemented (even when the shape of the finger as changed in order to increase the effort applied by the pad 122c).
  • the configuration with a stop ensures an almost constant effort of selection regardless of the thickness of the envelope comparing with a configuration without such stop. Indeed, the effort required by a thick envelope to push both part of the finger will be quite important ( ie. proportional to the important compression of the spring 20 required to push the upper part 120 of the selection fingers). So to obtain an equivalent selection effort on a thin envelope (which not require an important compression of the spring 24), the combination of the pressing effort of both spring 20 and 24 is necessary.

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GB1592241A (en) * 1977-02-01 1981-07-01 Licentia Gmbh Conveyor device with a stripper for holding back multiple flat articles
WO2003042081A2 (fr) * 2001-11-13 2003-05-22 Pitney Bowes Inc. Separateur articule
US20100176547A1 (en) * 2007-09-21 2010-07-15 United States Postal Service Double inhibit mechanism
EP2325120A1 (fr) * 2009-10-28 2011-05-25 Neopost Technologies Dispositif de sélection d'articles de courrier à doigts multiples pivotants

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GB1592241A (en) * 1977-02-01 1981-07-01 Licentia Gmbh Conveyor device with a stripper for holding back multiple flat articles
WO2003042081A2 (fr) * 2001-11-13 2003-05-22 Pitney Bowes Inc. Separateur articule
US20100176547A1 (en) * 2007-09-21 2010-07-15 United States Postal Service Double inhibit mechanism
EP2325120A1 (fr) * 2009-10-28 2011-05-25 Neopost Technologies Dispositif de sélection d'articles de courrier à doigts multiples pivotants

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