EP0961236A2 - Dispositif d'impression de courrier - Google Patents

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EP0961236A2
EP0961236A2 EP99250147A EP99250147A EP0961236A2 EP 0961236 A2 EP0961236 A2 EP 0961236A2 EP 99250147 A EP99250147 A EP 99250147A EP 99250147 A EP99250147 A EP 99250147A EP 0961236 A2 EP0961236 A2 EP 0961236A2
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
    • G07B17/00508—Printing or attaching on mailpieces
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J13/00—Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, specially adapted for supporting or handling copy material in short lengths, e.g. sheets
    • B41J13/10—Sheet holders, retainers, movable guides, or stationary guides
    • B41J13/12—Sheet holders, retainers, movable guides, or stationary guides specially adapted for small cards, envelopes, or the like, e.g. credit cards, cut visiting cards
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41L—APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR MANIFOLDING, DUPLICATING OR PRINTING FOR OFFICE OR OTHER COMMERCIAL PURPOSES; ADDRESSING MACHINES OR LIKE SERIES-PRINTING MACHINES
    • B41L45/00—Kinds or types of addressing machines or of like series-printing machines
    • B41L45/02—Kinds or types of addressing machines or of like series-printing machines using printing plates
    • B41L45/06—Kinds or types of addressing machines or of like series-printing machines using printing plates for addressing combined with other operations, e.g. franking, collating documents
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
    • G07B17/00467—Transporting mailpieces
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
    • G07B17/00193—Constructional details of apparatus in a franking system
    • G07B2017/00233—Housing, e.g. lock or hardened casing
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
    • G07B17/00508—Printing or attaching on mailpieces
    • G07B2017/00516—Details of printing apparatus
    • G07B2017/00524—Printheads
    • G07B2017/00532—Inkjet
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
    • G07B17/00508—Printing or attaching on mailpieces
    • G07B2017/00572—Details of printed item
    • G07B2017/00596—Printing of address

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  • the invention relates to a device for printing mail, in particular a franking and / or addressing machine, which is provided with an ink printing device.
  • Letter post processing systems usually consist of a letter separating device, a franking and / or addressing machine with optional scales and a storage device, see DE-M 96 09 167.3 in the design patent sheet of the German Patent Office dated May 24, 1997, part la, goods class 18/02.
  • the letters are stacked, separated and, if necessary, sealed.
  • the letters are either printed continuously and continuously with a rigidly arranged printing device, see DE 196 05 014 C1 and DE 196 45 303 C1, or intermittently with an adjustable printing device, see US Pat. No. 5,025,386.
  • the latter also applies to slow-working franking machines in which the letters are created individually by hand, compare EP 0 782 096 A2 and WO 90/04824.
  • All known franking machines see for example DE 40 20 578 A1, DE 195 08 180 A1, DE 196 05 015 C1 and US 5,025,386 common that the printing medium individually serial of the printing device be fed.
  • the guide means - transport shaft, pressure rollers - In the area of the printing device are designed so that Print media up to a certain thickness can be processed. Most machines only allow letter thicknesses up to 5mm.
  • the envelope flap of the envelope may be arranged upright.
  • the purpose of the invention is to enlarge the area of application.
  • the invention has for its object a device of the beginning mentioned type with which it is possible, on the one hand Letters of any thickness up to parcels and small packages Manual system to be printed immediately and on the other hand in stacks automatically create mixed mail of small thickness.
  • the invention takes advantage of the previously completely neglected fact that the foremost letter of a stack, due to the flush contact with a lateral guide means and the parallel contact with another guide means, is already arranged as a single letter in relation to a printing device present in this so that this can be printed.
  • the letters of a stack are first printed and then separated or transported away.
  • the device can be used as a franking and / or addressing machine or as a label printer. The latter use applies if the mail is only provided with a label for the carrier.
  • the franking machine is functionally divided into a system area I and a transport area II, both of which partially overlap in the transition area.
  • the contact area is designed as an open corner, which is delimited by a rear, common guide wall 1, a lower guide wall 2 and a right, lateral guide wall 31.
  • the mail item A is placed either in stacks or individually flush with the right guide wall 31 and with the front facing the rear guide wall 1, see also FIGS. 3 and 4.
  • the lower guide wall 2 slopes slightly towards the rear guide wall 1, preferably by 18 degrees.
  • the rear guide wall 1 is arranged orthogonally to the lower guide wall 2 and consequently inclined to the rear by the same angular amount. As a result of the inclination, letters assume a defined stable position without further support.
  • the lower guide wall 2 has a groove 22 in which a pressure bracket 21 is slidably mounted on the rear guide wall 1 and away from it.
  • the pressure bracket 21 is tensioned towards the rear guide wall 1 by means of a spring 23, see FIG. 2. In this way, a stack of letters is pressed against the rear guide wall 1 with approximately the same force.
  • the raised pressure bracket 21 closes with the front wall 8 in its pulled-out end position. It is also conceivable to resiliently guide the pressure bracket 21 in two parallel grooves.
  • spring design from a tension spring to a compression spring.
  • the right guide wall 31 is - except for a negligible draft slope - essentially vertical and also orthogonal to the lower guide wall 2.
  • the right guide wall 31 is also the left side wall of a housing part 3, which contains an operating keyboard 32 and a display 33.
  • the operating mode "manual system” or “automatic letter processing” can also be set using the operating keyboard 32.
  • the housing part 3 can be both firmly integrated into the overall device housing and also be a closed, attachable structural unit. The latter variant would offer favorable options for security measures for a meter section.
  • a transport slot 7 is provided with a trigger device 6, which extends into the contact area I.
  • the rear guide wall 1 has an opening 11 for a pressure device 4 and an opening 13 for a drive element 61 of the trigger device 6.
  • the printing device 4 contains an ink print head 41 which is arranged adjustably within the opening 11.
  • the opening 11 is such that the letters A standing on the edge of their envelope flap are provided with the franking imprint in the prescribed area. The same happens with parcels.
  • the area is arranged in accordance with the applicable postal regulations. According to the currently applicable regulations of Deutsche Post, the lower edge of the franking imprint must maintain a predetermined distance of approximately 40 mm from the neighboring letter edge. With a permissible franking imprint width of one inch or 25.4 mm, the upper edge of the franking imprint therefore has a distance of around 14 mm from the adjacent letter edge. Accordingly, the lower edge of the opening 11 is a maximum of 14 mm above the level of the lower guide wall 2.
  • Postage A is first created accordingly, then by the adjustable ink print head 41 printed and after the printing process either automatically by means of the trigger device 6 transported to the right and ejected or taken away by hand.
  • the adjustable ink print head 41 printed and after the printing process either automatically by means of the trigger device 6 transported to the right and ejected or taken away by hand.
  • the resulting nozzle row length of the ink printhead used 41 becomes the same during printing along the length the opening 11 only once or several times with different heights adjusted.
  • FIG. 2 shows a franking and addressing machine with the pressure bracket 21 folded down and locked in this position.
  • the pressure bracket 21 By folding down the pressure bracket 21 into the plane of the lower guide wall 2, the contact area for larger mail items A, such as parcels or small parcels, is released and the storage area is enlarged beyond the front wall 8, see also FIG. 4.
  • a further opening 12 and a second adjustable ink print head 42 are provided in the rear guide wall for address printing.
  • the processing speed would then be correspondingly lower. The execution is possible according to the wishes of the user.
  • a single mail item A is created in the form of a package, this corresponds to the "manual system" mode. In this mode the trigger device 6 is switched off.
  • mail item A is inserted in the form of a stack of letters between the pressure bracket 21 and the rear guide wall 1.
  • This corresponds to the "automatic letter processing" operating mode, in which the withdrawal device 6 is activated.
  • the franking machine can expediently be followed by a suitable depositing device.
  • the desired operating mode is set using the control keyboard 32.
  • FIG. 5 shows a franking machine for the optional processing of individual mail items A in the form of flat packages or small packages, see also FIG. 6, or in the form of letters stacked one above the other, see also FIG. 7.
  • the franking machine is divided into a system area I and a transport area II, both of which partially overlap in the transition area.
  • the contact area is designed as a compartment which is open on two sides and is delimited by a rear guide wall 1, a lower guide wall 2, an upper guide wall 9 and a right lateral guide wall 31, the guide walls 1, 2, 31 being approximately orthogonal to one another.
  • the lower guide wall 2 is designed in the form of a height-adjustable plate.
  • the rear guide wall 1 is provided with a vertical groove 14, in which the lower guide wall 2 is guided during the adjustment.
  • An adjustment mechanism for guide wall 2 is provided behind the guide wall 1 in a manner that is not visible.
  • the mail item A is placed either in stacks or individually flush on the right guide wall 31 and on the rear guide wall 1 and is directed with the front to the upper guide wall 9.
  • the inner surfaces of the lower guide wall 2 and the upper guide wall 9 are arranged parallel to one another.
  • the control keyboard 32 and the display 33 are housed in the top of the upper guide wall 9.
  • the right guide wall 31 is the left side wall of a housing part 3, between the top wall 30 and the upper guide wall 9 parallel thereto, a transport slot 7 with a trigger device 6 is provided, which extends into the contact area I.
  • the upper guide wall 9 has an opening 91 on the inside for a pressure device 4 and an opening 93 for a drive element 61 of the trigger device 6, which also includes retaining fingers 62 on the top of the top wall 30.
  • the printing device 4 contains at least one ink print head 41 which is arranged to be adjustable within the opening 91.
  • a sensor 43 is present in the upper guide wall 9, which is electrically coupled to the printing device 4.
  • the mail item A is first created accordingly, then the lower guide wall 2 is raised in the direction of the upper guide wall 9 until the upper side of the mail item A lying over it positively touches the sensor 43 and triggers the printing device 4 via this and switches off the adjustment mechanism. After the printing process, the mail item A is either automatically drawn horizontally into the transport slot 7 by means of the take-off device 6, transported away in the latter and then ejected or removed by hand.
  • the retention fingers 62 are intended to prevent two letters from being drawn off at the same time. This version can also be supplemented for address printing.
  • FIG. 6 is a single mail item A in the form of a flat package created, corresponds to the operating mode "manual system". In this operating mode the trigger device is switched off via the control keyboard 32.
  • Postgut A is in the form of a stack of letters between the lower guide plate 2 and the upper guide plate 9 inserted. This corresponds to the "automatic letter processing" mode in which the trigger device is switched on.

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