US 12,280,593 B2Granted

Device and method for processing documents

AssigneeMuhlbauer AG

InventorsHubert Dabrowski, Andy Günther

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Abstract

A device for processing a document includes a processing device for providing a document to be processed with information when this is in an effective range of the processing device with information; and a traversing device with a document carrier device that can be traversed along a trajectory. The traversing device is configured to receive a document to be processed at a transfer position of the device on or at a document-carrying surface of the document carrier device; to move the received document into the effective range of the processing device for its processing and out of the effective range of the processing device after its processing. The document carrier device is traversed at least in sections, at least with respect to a direction of movement component along a specific (first) direction of movement, which runs orthogonally to a plane defined by three different points on the document-carrying surface.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A device (100) for processing a document (D), the device comprising:

a processing device (110a;
110b;
110c;
110d) for providing a document (D) to be processed with information when this is in an effective range (110e) of the processing device (110a;
110b;
110c;
110d);
and
a traversing device (108a,b) with a document carrier device (105) that can be traversed along a trajectory, wherein the traversing device (108a,b) is configured:
to receive a document (D) to be processed at a transfer position (T) of the device (100) on or at a document-carrying surface of the document carrier device (105);
to move the received document (D) by traversing the document carrier device (105) into the effective range (110e) of the processing device (110a;
110b;
110c;
110d) for its processing and out of the effective range (110e) of the processing device after it has been processed, wherein the traversing of the document carrier device (105) to this end takes place at least in a section (H1) of the trajectory, at least with respect to a movement direction component along a specific movement direction (z) which runs orthogonally to a plane defined by three different points on the document-carrying surface;
and
to rotate the document-carrying surface about an axis of rotation (105c) aligned along the specific movement direction (z), so that the document (D), within the effective range (110e) of the processing device (110a;
110b;
110c;
110d) depending on an angle of rotation (φ) of this rotation, can be processed in one of at least two selectable different orientations of the document (D) relative to the processing device (110a;
110b;
110c;
110d).

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/250,108Filed 29 Sep 2021
Priority: DE 102020128018.123 Oct 2020
Published: US 2023/0406012 A121 Dec 2023
Granted: 22 Apr 2025
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

B41J 13/0009
Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, specially adapted for supporting or…
B41J 11/0015
Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in…:…
B41J 11/0055
Guides for printing material: lateral guides, e.g. guides for preventing skewed conveyance of printing material
B41J 13/12
Sheet holders, retainers , movable guides, or stationary guides: specially adapted for small cards, envelopes, or the like , e.g. credit cards,…