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 α 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, said feeder comprising:
- 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 drive mechanism for controlling said at least one row of drive rollers, said first and second drive rollers being inclined at an angle α 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 second drive roller in the same row of said at least one row of drive rollers is driven 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.
A feeder for a machine for handling mailpieces, said feeder comprising:
- 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 drive mechanism for controlling said at least one row of drive rollers, said first and second drive rollers being inclined at an angle α 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 second drive roller in the same row of said at least one row of drive rollers is driven 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, and
- wherein said at least one row of drive rollers further comprises a third drive roller in the same row and said third drive roller is driven in rotation with a second predetermined delay relative to said second drive roller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.