Drive and actuating system for an envelope-filling station

US6763648B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Pitney Bowes Deutschland GmbH · DE

Inventors

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

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 29, 2001
• Grant date: Jul 20, 2004
• Expiry date: Oct 21, 2022

Classification

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

Abstract

A drive and actuating system for an envelope-filling station in which enclosures or sets of enclosures are fed, by a driven conveyor, to a push-in station in which a push-in arrangement, which has a pivot drive, receives the enclosures or sets of enclosures and pushes them into envelopes, which are held ready in an open state. The envelopes are then delivered into a position opposite the push-in station, from oriented transversely to the push-in direction, by an envelope-conveying arrangement. Further, a multiplicity of functions of the individual parts of the envelope-filling station can be forcibly synchronized in an adjustable manner and a comparatively straightforward and clear construction of the overall drive and actuating system is produced.