Device for handling objects in sheet form

US6751929B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Pitney Bowes Deutschland GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Martin Sting · Bad Vilbel, DE
• Christian Botschek · Rödermark, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 15, 2000
• Grant date: Jun 22, 2004
• Expiry date: Nov 15, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B43M5/04
• WIPO field: Other consumer goods
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

In an apparatus for handling sheet-like articles, in particular in an envelope-filling station, in which a carrier (9) provided with push-in fingers (11) is moved back and forth by means of an actuating arrangement (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 21, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32) in order for articles which are conveyed up by means of a conveying path (2) to be received from the conveying path and handled in the conveying direction, improved adaptation of the handling speed of the push-in fingers (11) to the conveying speed of the conveying path (2) is achieved in that a drive mechanism (21, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32) of the actuating arrangement contains a crank drive, on the crankshaft (28) of which there is fastened an elliptical two-belt pulley (29) which is coupled, via a toothed belt (31) to a continuously driven, round belt pulley (32).