EP3489911A1 - Dispositif d'affranchissement des colis plats transportés individuellement ou sur un empilement sur un tronçon de traitement - Google Patents

Dispositif d'affranchissement des colis plats transportés individuellement ou sur un empilement sur un tronçon de traitement Download PDF

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EP3489911A1
EP3489911A1 EP17405029.4A EP17405029A EP3489911A1 EP 3489911 A1 EP3489911 A1 EP 3489911A1 EP 17405029 A EP17405029 A EP 17405029A EP 3489911 A1 EP3489911 A1 EP 3489911A1
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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
    • B65H3/34—Article-retaining devices controlling the release of the articles to the separators
    • 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
    • B65H5/00—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines
    • B65H5/06—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by rollers or balls, e.g. between rollers
    • B65H5/062—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by rollers or balls, e.g. between rollers between rollers or balls
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H7/00—Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles
    • B65H7/02—Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors
    • B65H7/04—Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to absence of articles, e.g. exhaustion of pile
    • 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
    • B65H2513/00—Dynamic entities; Timing aspects
    • B65H2513/10—Speed
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2553/00—Sensing or detecting means
    • B65H2553/60—Details of intermediate means between the sensing means and the element to be sensed
    • B65H2553/61—Mechanical means, e.g. contact arms
    • 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 franking flat, taken in the transport direction F at one side edge of individually or on the underside of an applied stack packages out, such as envelopes, mailers, cards, printed products, envelopes, labels or the like.
  • a device for franking flat taken in the transport direction F at one side edge of individually or on the underside of an applied stack packages out, such as envelopes, mailers, cards, printed products, envelopes, labels or the like.
  • Cases are closable shipping cases made of (half) cardboard for flat, in particular comparatively thin products, such as a printed product, a CD or format-like products.
  • a device of the type described above is characterized by the EP 1 832 536 A1 known.
  • This franking machine for processing packages has a conveyor device formed from superimposed conveyor rollers, are pulled out with the mail items from a downstream in the conveying direction investor magazine, at the bottom of a stack.
  • the feeder is designed with a front wall for positioning the packages whose lower edge forms a removal gap with the conveying plane through which the packages are transported individually.
  • a conveyor roller of the conveying plane arranged in the conveying direction F for the removal gap is associated with a guide roller which cooperates with the former and which is arranged slightly upstream with respect to the axis of rotation of the conveyor roller downstream of the packages.
  • This guide roller is rotatably mounted with a force acting in the same direction to the conveying direction acting force and stops at the removal gap upcoming supernumerary packages back. It is important that the packages which are stacked in the feeder, but also individual ones, are transported with exact positioning, so that no multiple prints are produced, in particular if the packages differ in their dimensions and handling materials in order to ensure reliable and uninterrupted transport.
  • this object is achieved in that the processing path in the transport area between the feeder and the separating device associated therewith by several, a horizontal transport plane for receiving a resp. consists of the lowest package of a stack forming, driven transport rollers, which are driven transversely and side by side and in the same direction and at the same or different peripheral speed in the transport direction F of the packages.
  • Various packages up to 12 mm thickness are processed without additional adjustment / readjustment.
  • the downstream viewed in the transport direction F transport roller may be driven at a greater peripheral speed.
  • the invented new invention proves to be particularly successful in processing a stack of different thickness and format packages from a feeder.
  • a simple design of the transport rollers can be achieved if they are from laterally spaced individual roles resp. Wheels are formed, which allow for less weight accurate guidance of the unstable and / or made of different materials packages.
  • the transport area between the feeder and the separating device is formed by at least two transport rollers, of which the transport roller of the separating device connected downstream in the transport direction F is assigned and the upstream transport role supports the withdrawal of an overlying package from the investor.
  • a favoring of the deduction process can occur when the ends of the packages in the transport direction F are supported on the circumference of a support roller, raised in front of their plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation above the transport plane, which effects a certain pre-separation or pre-separation of the respectively lowest package.
  • the support roller can be considered to be mounted transversely to the transport direction F of the packages, higher than the transport plane arranged axis, freely rotatable or driven to promote the frame.
  • the support roller can be arranged displaceable / displaceable and lockable in the frame in the transport direction F, in order to be able to compensate for format deviations of the packages.
  • Preparing for a trouble-free deduction of the packages from a stack or the feeder is when the front in the transport direction end of the investor is formed by a rearwardly inclined guide / investor wall whose upstream lower end with the transport plane at least approximately over the Width of the transport plane extending passage resp. Outlet opening for removing the packages from the feeder forms and created by the bent in the transport direction lower edge gentle guidance.
  • the guide / investor wall serving as a stop is designed to be adjustable or height-adjustable for changing the passage height or for adapting to the thickness of the mail pieces.
  • the commissioning of the device or the transport rollers and the separating device can be carried out by a detected by the separating device, resting in the transport plane on an actuator bottom package and triggered by a photocell.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates a device 1 for processing individually laid-out or on the underside 3 of an applied stack 2 (as shown) from a feeder 5 for postage paid flat packages 4, such as envelopes, mailers, cards, printed products, respectively. Magazines and catalogs, covers for inserted / inserted products or the like.
  • the device 1 consists of a separating station 7 formed from feeder 5 and separating device 6, in which the occurring packages 4 are processed individually and on a processing line connecting the separating station 7 and a franking station 8 are transported.
  • the processing section 8 has in the transport region 9 between the feeder 5 and the associated separating device 6 at least two, a horizontal transport plane 10 for the individual packages 4 forming transport rollers 11, 12 in the transport direction F across and at intervals adjacent to each other, preferably the same diameter respectively. have the same peripheral speed and are driven in the same direction.
  • the transport rollers 11, 12 are at their ends in a housing or frame 13 of the device 1, respectively. a postage meter driven by a motor.
  • the device 1 is followed by a franking unit (not shown) downstream of the device 1 for printing, franking or imaging of the packages 4, which is connected to the present device 1 by the driven transport plane 10 or the transport rollers 11, 12 in the same clockwise and conveying manner.
  • the device 1 shows the device 1 with inserted, in the feeder 5 a stack 2 forming packages 4, which stand out by different thickness mass and format sizes.
  • packages 4 can also be the same format with the illustrated device 1 Packages 4 process resp. seperate.
  • the packages 4 created in feeder 5 in a stack 2 are grasped on the transport roller 12 under the action of an adjusting member 15 of the separating device 6 and the packages 4 resting on the lowermost package 4 are restrained or multiple withdrawals from the feeder 5 are prevented.
  • the transport roller 12 and the adjusting member 15 As soon as the lowermost package 4 of the stack 2 is detected by the transport roller 12 and the adjusting member 15, it is transported further by the transport rollers 11, 12 in the transport plane 10 in the transport direction F and guided between the conveying roller pair 16 connected downstream of the transport plane 10, of which at least a conveyor roller 17 is driven, whereas an upper, preferably resiliently supported conveyor roller 18 via a friction connection with the transport rollers 11, 12 corresponding conveyor roller 17, forming a conveying gap, may be driven.
  • the feeder 5 has a front, preferably against the locomotion F inclined guide / investor wall 20, the lower end of the transport plane 10 forms a passage / removal opening 21 for the packages to be separated 4.
  • the guide / investor wall 20 is preferably inclined rearwardly and extends at least partially across the width of the transport plane 10; it can be adjusted / adjusted to change the height of the passage opening.
  • the guide / investor wall 20 side guides (not shown) are provided, on which the guide wall 20 is displaced in height.
  • the lower end of the guide wall 20 is formed bent in the transport direction F, thereby to ensure a trouble-free passage of the packages 4 at the passage opening 21 can.
  • For optimum support or support of the packages 4 in the transport plane 10 is the first transport roller 11 a the transport plane 10 below the stacked in the feeder 5 items 4 extending, freely rotatable support roller 22 in the housing / frame 13 of the device 1 stored.
  • Fig. 1 arranged at the rear end of the feeder 5 in the transport direction F, the packages 4 in the transport direction F at the rear end over the transport plane 10, freely rotatable or independently driven support roller 23, the delivery of the packages 4 is supported for the separation by the friction-effective peripheral surface.
  • This support roller 23 can be replaced by a larger diameter and adjusted their position, adjusted to the transport length of the packages 4 in the transport direction F in the housing 13 of the device 1, so that viewed in the transport direction F rear end of the stacked in the feeder 5 packages. 4 on the circumference of the support roller 23, are supported behind the vertically extending through the axis plane 26 above the transport plane 10.
  • a pivotable about a transversely directed axis actuator 24 is mounted in the housing / frame 13 of the device 1. This illustrated in the operating position of the device 1 and with broken lines in the inoperative position mechanical actuator 24 sets the operation of the device 1, respectively.
  • the franking machine in progress as soon as a package 4 comes to rest on the actuator 24 or a package 4 on a support roller / n 22 and the transport rollers 11, respectively. 12 or in the transport plane 10 rests.
  • the operation of the device 1 is triggered by means of a light barrier 25, which is associated with the actuating element 24.

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EP17405029.4A 2017-11-22 2017-11-22 Dispositif d'affranchissement des colis plats transportés individuellement ou sur un empilement sur un tronçon de traitement Active EP3489911B1 (fr)

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EP17405029.4A EP3489911B1 (fr) 2017-11-22 2017-11-22 Dispositif d'affranchissement des colis plats transportés individuellement ou sur un empilement sur un tronçon de traitement
US16/058,201 US10589947B2 (en) 2017-11-22 2018-08-08 Apparatus for franking flat items of mail transported individually or from a supplied stack, such as envelopes, mailers, cards, printed products, sleeves, labels or the like, on a processing line
CN201810959698.8A CN109809214A (zh) 2017-11-22 2018-08-22 用于在加工路段上给单个地或以经靠放的堆叠运输的、扁平的寄送件进行盖印的机构

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