High-rate franking machine
AssigneeNeopost Industrie
InventorsXavier Deshayes, Claude Tetard
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Abstract
This invention relates to a high-rate franking machine comprising means for printing postal indicia on a mailpiece and means for transporting this mailpiece along a mailpiece-conveying path, said printing means comprising, arranged side by side transversely to a direction D of advance of the mailpieces along said mailpiece-conveying path, a first printing module arranged in a first position (position of printing) above said mailpiece-conveying path and a second printing module arranged in a second position (position of maintenance/standby) set back with respect to said mailpiece-conveying path. The first printing module is associated with a first maintenance station and the second printing module is associated with a second maintenance station.
Claims8
High-rate franking machine comprising:
- means for transporting a mailpiece along a mailpiece-conveying path;
- means for printing postal indicia on the mailpiece, said printing means comprising first and second printing modules alternately moveable from a printing position along the conveying path at which printing of the postal indicia occurs and an off-set position displaced from the conveying path to permit cleaning of the print module, wherein when positioned in the printing position, the respective print module prints the entire postal indicia.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.