Separator having a blade
AssigneeNeopost Technologies
InventorsRomain Pillard, Jean-Pierre Gregoire
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Abstract
A feeder module for feeding envelopes into a mail handling machine, which feeder module has, from upstream to downstream relative to a direction of advance of the mail items, a tray for receiving a stack of envelopes, a device for selecting said envelopes one-by-one, a separator having an active separation zone formed by a sharp cutting portion for separating the envelop flaps from the envelope bodies, and a moistener for moistening the flaps separated in this way.
Claims6
A feeder module for feeding envelopes into a mail handling machine, which feeder module has, from upstream to downstream relative to a direction of advance of the mail items, a tray for receiving a stack of envelopes, a device for selecting said envelopes one-by-one, a separator for separating the envelop flaps from the envelope bodies, and a moistener for moistening the flaps separated in this way, wherein said separator has an active separation zone formed by a sharp cutting portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.