Processing station for a mail processing machine

US6810646B1 · 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: Nov 2, 2004
• Expiry date: Nov 15, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65B43/26
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In a processing station for a mail processing machine, a housing is formed by parallel housing side parts, standing opposite each other at a distance corresponding to the width of the conveying track of the mail processing machine, a housing part connecting these across the conveying track and a supporting partition fixed to the connecting housing part, situated in a vertical median plane relative, to the distance between the housing side parts and parallel to the housing side parts, and restricted to a prismatic or cylindrical space above a level at a distance from the surface of the conveying track. The supporting partition serves to support bearings for axles and shafts of an actuating apparatus arranged in the processing station in question, in such a manner that the space immediately above the conveying track surface is kept free of drive members and control members for the actuating apparatus in order to enable large-format inserts or sets of inserts to be passed through the processing station.