Item individualization station

US10668504B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Francotyp-Postalia GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Axel Ortmann · Berlin, DE
• Wolfgang Muhl · Hohen Neuendorf, DE
• Dieter Woelm · Ludwigsfelde, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 27, 2017
• Grant date: Jun 2, 2020
• Expiry date: May 25, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07B2017/00491
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An individualization station has a supply deck for supplying flat goods to a goods processing apparatus following in the transport path in the transport direction x of a Cartesian coordinate system, with openings in the supply deck for a drum in an individualization region, and with individualization assembly as well as with a contact pressure box. The contact pressure box is movable in the z-direction, and has a linkage that is pivotable at a downstream end. An individualization assembly carrier forms an L-shape at an upstream end of the linkage that is pivotable in the contact pressure box. A stop side of the undeflected individualization assembly carrier is aligned parallel to the y/z-plane and extends counter to a y-direction. The individualization assembly carrier can be deflected above the supply deck at a variable distance corresponding to the thickness of the flat good to be individualized, and is adjustable in the y-direction and counter thereto by an adjustment assembly.