Envelope-filling station for mail processing systems

US6957521B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Pitney Bowes Deutschland GmbH · DE

Inventors

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

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 25, 2004
• Grant date: Oct 25, 2005
• Expiry date: Aug 25, 2024

Classification

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

Abstract

In an envelope-filling station for mail processing systems having an envelope-feeding arrangement for single, open envelopes, an intermediate envelope-conveying arrangement extending at an angle thereto in the direction of an angle stop arrangement provided for the purpose of aligning the envelope, and an envelope-advancing arrangement from which the envelopes are accepted from the angle stop arrangement, a simplification of the design, and effort needed to control the component parts is achieved when the angle stop arrangement, with the exception of a stopping straightedge that is to be provided to achieve extremely precise alignment of an envelope that is supplied at an angle, contains as a further part of the angle stop arrangement a conveying nip between the upper strand of an intermittently driven conveying belt of the envelope-advancing arrangement and a pressure-exerting roller that is pre-tensioned near the beginning of the upper strand of this conveying belt. The envelope-advancing arrangement has coupling means following the pressure-exerting roller that interact with the intermittently driven upper strand of the conveying belt of this envelope-advancing arrangement, in p…