Assembly for automatically securing a mail item

US9802733B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Deutsche Post AG · DE

Inventors

• Peter Wendt · Redondo Beach, US
• Mark Veasey · Bonn, DE
• Frank Steinert · Rosenheim, DE
• Mike Renoth · Merseburg, DE
• Ingo Kleilein · Bassum, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 24, 2016
• Grant date: Oct 31, 2017
• Expiry date: Aug 24, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65D2571/00055
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Disclosed is an assembly for automatically securing at least one mail item on a transport tray, the assembly including the mail item and the transport tray, on which the mail item can be placed, and a fixing arrangement designed to secure the mail item on the transport tray, wherein the assembly for lowering and raising the transport tray in a height-adjusting manner is designed in such a way that, by lowering the transport tray into a loading position, the distance between the fixing arrangement and the transport tray is increased in such a way that, in the loading position, the mail item can be placed on the transport tray between said transport tray and the fixing arrangement, and is designed in such a way that, by raising the transport tray from the loading position, the distance between the fixing arrangement and the transport tray is reduced in such a way that the fixing arrangement comes to rest on the mail item in order to secure the mail item against falling off from the transport tray. Due to the proposed assembly, it is ensured that, during transport, for example over a distance of several hundred meters, the mail item cannot fall off from the transport tray and thus be …