Method for franking packages individually supplied from a stack by a franking machine
AssigneeFrama AG
InventorThomas Peter Haug
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Abstract
A method for franking packages individually supplied from a stack on a conveyor line to a franking machine, such as envelopes, mailing bags, sleeves, cards, labels, printed products, or the like, which are removed at the lower side of the stack for separation and which are supplied on the upstream conveyor line to a printing mechanism of the franking machine and which, after printing of the packages, are discharged from the franking machine. The packages are supplied on the conveyor portion via a switch to the franking machine and after printing are supplied counter to the supply direction from the printing mechanism of the franking machine via the transposed switch of a depositing device which is provided therebelow for printed packages.
Claims15
A method for franking packages individually supplied from a stack on a conveyor line to a franking machine, comprising the steps of:
- removing the packages from a lower side of the stack for separation;
- supplying the separated packages on a conveyor portion of the conveyor line in a supply direction via a switch to a printing mechanism of the franking machine for franking;
- and after printing transposing the switch for discharging the packages from the franking machine counter to the supply direction to a depositing device arranged therebelow for the packages.
A device for franking/printing images on packages that are individually removed at a lower side/front side of a stack, comprising:
- a franking machine;
- a conveyor line for conducting the packages to the franking machine;
- a depositing device into which the printed packages are discharged from the franking machine;
- a feeder that receives the packages and in which the packages are placed on top of one another/next to each other in a stack;
- and a separation device that separates the packages from the stack and supplies the separated packages to the conveyor line one behind the other in a conveying direction, wherein the conveyor line is connected to the franking machine in an actively conveying manner and has a conveyor portion with a switch having a switchable switch tongue that determines the conveying direction of the packages, the switch tongue being constructed to guide the packages on the conveyor line into the franking machine and in an opposite direction out of the franking machine into the depositing device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.