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US 2009/0212492 A1Published application
Device for the transport of flat objects
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorKlaus Konig
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Abstract
A device for transporting flat objects, such as mail items, has two transport tracks and an acceleration device arranged between the transport tracks. The acceleration device includes a clamping pair for holding the objects in a clamped manner on their opposing flat sides while the objects are moving. To be able to carefully accelerate objects of different thicknesses, it is proposed that at least one clamp of the clamping pair includes a segment unit with several segments of different configuration for clamping objects of different thicknesses.
Claims12
A device for transporting flat objects, comprising:
- two transport tracks;
- an acceleration device arranged between said transport tracks, said acceleration device including a clamping pair for clampingly holding the flat objects on opposing flat sides thereof during a movement of the objects;
- said clamping pair including at least one clamp with a segment unit having a plurality of segments of different design for clamping objects of different thicknesses.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.