Transfer device for mail and the like

US5782338A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Rudolf Schuster · Heimstetten, DE
• Josef Raschke · Pliening, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 21, 1996
• Grant date: Jul 21, 1998
• Expiry date: Aug 21, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B07C1/025
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A transfer device is provided which includes a rotating paddle wheel (FR) whose preferably fixedly arranged paddles (F) form pockets (Z) which receive the items (S) arriving on a first conveying device (FE1) and discharge the items onto circulating item carriers (ST) of a second conveying device (FE2), the speed (v1) and the spacing (t1) of the incoming items (S), the circumferential speed (u) and the circumferential spacing (t2) of the paddle wheel (FR) and the speed (v3) and the spacing (t3) of the circulating item carriers (ST) being matched to one another. Direct transportation of the items (S) into the pockets (Z) of the paddle wheel (FR) is made possible by segmenting each of the paddles (F) by a plurality of gaps arranged one behind the other in the axial direction, and by interleaving guided segments of the first conveying device (FE1) into the paddle wheel (FR) in the region of the gaps. The transfer of the items (S) to the pockets (Z) can thus be reliably controlled since an ejection operation which is dependent on shape and mass of the items (S) may be eliminated.