Apparatus for separating items of mail fed to a franking machine on a processing line, such as envelopes, mailers, cards, printed products, sleeves, labels
US10618756B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 8, 2018 |
| Grant date | Apr 14, 2020 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 8, 2038 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB65H2701/1916
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
An apparatus for separating for franking/printing flat items of mail, which are supplied individually in a feeder or are guided at a front edge lying on one another as a stack and are each gripped at the underside of the stack by a separating device, separated and transported onward in a conveying direction, wherein the separating device is formed to pick up and transport the respectively lowest item of mail at the front end in the conveying direction for onward transport, and includes driven conveying drums, mounted transversely with respect to the conveying direction and arranged one after another underneath the to stack and forming a conveying plane, and forming a passage opening with the lower end of a positioning wall of the feeder and the conveying plane, and a sweeping device acting in a sweeping manner at least on the lowest item of mailafter the passage opening.
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