Charging apparatus

US6461102B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Pitney Bowes Technologies GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Martin Sting · Bad Vilbel, DE
• Stefan Will · Tangerhütte, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 21, 1999
• Grant date: Oct 8, 2002
• Expiry date: Sep 21, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S414/13
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A charging apparatus for handling stations for sheet-like, flexible articles, in particular envelopes, particularly for mail-processing machines, the drive in a feed-channel for stacks of articles standing on edge being controlled in dependence on a detector output signal produced by a light barrier, which responds to the formation of a gap and runs transversely to the conveying direction with the gap forming in the region of a transition between the feed channel and a discharge channel.