EP 0856484 B1 20011212 - Feeding device for postal items of different sizes
Title (en)
Feeding device for postal items of different sizes
Title (de)
Förder-Vorrichtung für Poststücke mit variablen Abmessungen
Title (fr)
Dispositif d'alimentation en articles de courrier de dimensions variables
Publication
Application
Priority
FR 9701053 A 19970131
Abstract (en)
[origin: EP0856484A1] The system is installed upstream of a franking machine and has a mail transport path with a first feeding zone for differently-sized mail articles (10) comprising a number of transport rollers (16). A second selection zone (18) performs individual selection of the mail articles and has a number of transport rollers (20). A third zone (24) conveys the individually extracted articles from the mail stack one-by-one and directs them to the franking machine and has a third set of rollers (22). A first set of sensors (128,130,132) identify the different sizes of the mail articles in the first zone. A second set of sensors (120,122) detect passage of the articles in the second and third zones. A number of driving clutches engage the rollers and are activated selectively in accordance with a predetermined sequence defined by a microprocessor controller as a function of the states of the sensor sets.
IPC 1-7
IPC 8 full level
B65H 3/06 (2006.01); B65H 5/06 (2006.01); G07B 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP US)
B65H 3/063 (2013.01 - EP US); B65H 5/066 (2013.01 - EP US); G07B 17/00467 (2013.01 - EP US); B65H 2511/10 (2013.01 - EP US); B65H 2511/514 (2013.01 - EP US); B65H 2513/40 (2013.01 - EP US); B65H 2513/50 (2013.01 - EP US); B65H 2701/1916 (2013.01 - EP US); G07B 2017/00338 (2013.01 - EP US); G07B 2017/00475 (2013.01 - EP US); G07B 2017/00685 (2013.01 - EP US); Y10S 209/90 (2013.01 - EP US); Y10S 209/91 (2013.01 - EP US)
Designated contracting state (EPC)
DE FR GB
DOCDB simple family (publication)
EP 0856484 A1 19980805; EP 0856484 B1 20011212; DE 69802847 D1 20020124; DE 69802847 T2 20020620; FR 2759069 A1 19980807; FR 2759069 B1 19990423; US 6005212 A 19991221
DOCDB simple family (application)
EP 98400123 A 19980122; DE 69802847 T 19980122; FR 9701053 A 19970131; US 1552898 A 19980129