Envelope-filling station

US6789377B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Pitney Bowes Technologies GmbH · DE

Inventors

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

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 29, 2001
• Grant date: Sep 14, 2004
• Expiry date: Oct 28, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B43M3/045
• WIPO field: Other consumer goods
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

An envelope filling station at which enclosures are pushed into envelopes. Envelopes are provide to the filling station via an envelope conveyor transverse to the push-in direction. A roller bar positioned above the conveyor is lowered while transporting envelopes and raised while documents are pushed into the stopped envelopes, A stop means, stops the envelopes on the conveyor at an appropriated filling location. Upstream of the conveyor an auxiliary conveying arrangement provides envelopes to the conveyor from a direction perpendicular to the conveyor.