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US 2014/0206520 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for collecting flat articles
AssigneeFerag AG
InventorWerner Honegger
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AssigneeFerag AG
InventorWerner Honegger
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A method for collecting addressed letters in grippers and for conveying the collected letters further in the grippers, wherein the grippers each have a first and second gripper limb, and these limbs form an accommodating space. The method includes supplying a sheet that is partially folded along a folding line to form two sheet portions that are delimited from one another by the folding line, introducing the folded sheet into the accommodating space between the gripper limbs, wherein the folded sheet is subjected to a restraining force in the direction of a planar position of the sheet by the non-folded sections along the folding line, and pushing the portions of the sheet onto the adjacent gripper limbs by the restoring force, with an accommodating pocket being formed in the accommodating space in the process, and retaining the folded sheet in the accommodating space by the contact-pressure force.
A method for collecting flat articles in receiving units that are moved along a circular path, and for further conveying the collected articles in the receiving units, wherein the receiving units comprise in each case two supporting elements that are located opposite one another and form a receiving space,
A device for collecting flat articles and for further conveying the collected articles as a stack, said device including a plurality of receiving which units that are movable in a conveying direction along a closed conveying path that is defined by a conveying member, and which, for holding and supporting the collected articles, comprises in each case two supporting elements that are situated opposite one another and realize a receiving space, wherein an apparatus for supplying an enclosing unit that is weakened in part along a bending line and for pushing the enclosing unit into the receiving space of the receiving unit that is moved along the conveying path, wherein the apparatus is capable of inserting the enclosing unit in the bent state into the receiving space.
A delivery unit, including at least one flat article as well as a flat, flexible enclosing unit that is weakened in part along a bending line and includes two enclosing portions that are defined from one another along the bending line and form a receiving pocket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.