Mailpiece feed device having an angular delay
AssigneeNeopost Technologies
InventorYannick CLARIS
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Abstract
A feeder for a mail-handling machine is provided with a conveyor device having at least one row of drive rollers comprising at least first and second drive rollers standing proud through a mailpiece-receiving deck of the feeder and controlled by a suitable drive mechanism, said first and second drive rollers being inclined at an angle a relative to a perpendicular to a longitudinal referencing wall, and the second drive roller being driven in rotation with a first predetermined delay relative to the first drive roller, which is the closer to the referencing wall.
Claims13
A feeder for a machine for handling mailpieces, which feeder has a mailpiece-receiving deck, a longitudinal referencing wall, at least one row of drive rollers comprising at least first and second drive rollers standing proud through said mailpiece-receiving deck, and a suitable drive mechanism for controlling said at least one row of drive rollers, said first and second drive rollers being inclined at an angle a relative to a perpendicular to said longitudinal referencing wall for shifting said mailpieces towards said longitudinal referencing wall while also conveying them downstream, wherein said at least one row of drive rollers has means for driving said second drive roller in rotation with a first predetermined delay relative to said first drive roller which is the closer to said longitudinal referencing wall, so as to cause said mailpieces to pivot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.