Patent · US Active

Printer apparatus

US9010755B2 · kind B2 · utility

0Cited by

1References

20Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Francotyp-Postalia GmbH · DE

Inventors

Axel Ortmann · Berlin, DE
Wolfgang Muhl · Hohen Neuendorf, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 18, 2013
Grant date	Apr 21, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 23, 2033

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB41J11/0035
WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A printer apparatus has a contact pressure device for flat articles on a continuously moving transport belt, in particular letters in a franking and/or addressing machine. In order to increase the usable region and/or of the throughput of the printer apparatus, flat articles of different thicknesses are processed with predetermined speed, without slippage, in succession with arbitrarily small gaps between successive articles. An elastic, bellows-shaped, resiliently supported air bag has a low-friction, wear-resistant cover surface that is in non-positive contact with the transport belt. With its associated retention and air supply devices the bellows serves as a mobile contact pressure module.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.