EP1215631A1 - Spender für bahnförmige Etiketten - Google Patents

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EP1215631A1
EP1215631A1 EP01403215A EP01403215A EP1215631A1 EP 1215631 A1 EP1215631 A1 EP 1215631A1 EP 01403215 A EP01403215 A EP 01403215A EP 01403215 A EP01403215 A EP 01403215A EP 1215631 A1 EP1215631 A1 EP 1215631A1
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Francis Coret
Thierry Le Jaoudour
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Quadient Technologies France SA
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Neopost Technologies SA
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    • 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
    • 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
    • G07B2017/0025—Storage of, e.g. ribbon
    • 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
    • G07B2017/00612—Attaching item on mailpiece
    • G07B2017/0062—Label

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  • the present invention relates to the exclusive field of treatment of mail and it relates to a strip label dispenser intended for equip a franking machine and equipped with a device indicating consumption.
  • Such a rechargeable dispenser (the strip, or ribbon, carrying the labels is a consumable) conventionally includes enclosed in a housing a delivery roller and at least two pairs of rollers drive arranged on either side of a cutting module intended for define a given length for the label.
  • the drive rollers which ensure the unwinding of the label strip are actuated by a drive motor through a kinematics with pinions, pulleys and belts for example and speed and position sensors are provided to allow precise cutting of the strip.
  • the quantity of remaining tape is of importance not negligible to prevent eminence from a change of unwinder or reloading this unwinder by introducing a new strip. This importance is particularly real in franking machines broadband that can print a very large number of labels at high speeds.
  • the present invention therefore relates to a label dispenser for postage meter which can provide an indication of the consumption of the label strip and in particular an indication less approximate to the amount of tape remaining.
  • An object of the invention is also to provide this indication at the lowest cost.
  • a strip label dispenser to franking machine comprising a delivery roller on which is wound a continuous strip of labels, a drive means for conveying this strip along a transport path of this distributor from said roller delivering to a label entrance of the franking machine, characterized in that it further comprises on the one hand mounted on said drive means a first coding means for measuring a angular displacement of said drive means and on the other hand mounted on said roller delivering a second coding means for measuring a angular displacement of said flow roller, and in that means for processing are provided for, from said displacement measurements angular, calculate a remaining length of said continuous strip tags.
  • the processing means include means for calculating and command the display of different thresholds corresponding respectively to 100%, 75%, 50%, 25% and 0% of said remaining strip length.
  • the display is carried out either directly at the label dispenser on a dedicated display or either on a franking machine user interface.
  • the first and second coding means each consist of an optical coder comprising an optical transmitter / receiver cooperating with an encoder disc on which are made at regular intervals slots defining a pitch of unit displacement of the coding means.
  • the coders optics have equal unit displacement steps.
  • Figures 1 and 2 schematically illustrate views top and bottom respectively of a label dispenser in strip intended to equip a franking machine.
  • This distributor has a flow roller 10 on which is rolled up a continuous strip 12 of cutting labels (see pre-cut), at least two pairs 14, 16 of drive rollers for convey this strip along a transport path of this distributor from this flow roller to a label entry of the franking (not shown), and a cutting module 18 placed on this path transport, advantageously between the two pairs of rollers drive, and intended under the control of processing means 20 (advantageously a microprocessor-based calculation module) to define a length given for the label to be cut.
  • the drive rollers which ensure the unwinding of the label strip are actuated by a control motor 22 through kinematics 24 with pinions, pulleys and belts also actuated under the control of the means of treatment. Speed and position sensors (not shown) are also provided to allow precise control of the strip cutting. All these elements are mounted in a body or housing of the distributor 26.
  • At least one of the belt drive rollers of labels is provided with a first coding means 30 intended to measure the angular displacement of this roller and therefore by correspondence the linear movement of the label strip.
  • a first coding means 30 intended to measure the angular displacement of this roller and therefore by correspondence the linear movement of the label strip.
  • ⁇ Y * L2 or L2 is the unit displacement step of the second coding means and Y the number of pulses of this second coding means over this distance d.
  • These two coding means 30, 32 are each connected to the processing means 20.
  • the first and second coding means are advantageously of optical encoder type with an integral optical transmitter / receiver 300, 320 the body or housing of the distributor cooperating with an encoder disc 302, 322 secured to the movable roller or roller and on which, at intervals regular, are made of the slots which define the displacement step unit of the coding means. It's the interaction of each of these slots with the light beam coming from the optical emitter and directed towards the optical receiver facing it which will generate a number of pulses determined (i.e. the number of times the beam is transmitted or interrupted) of the encoder disc during its rotation. It may be noted that the use of inductive type coding means (inductive sensors associated with a toothed encoder disc made of magnetic material) or hall effect is also possible.

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EP01403215A 2000-12-13 2001-12-12 Spender für bahnförmige Etiketten Withdrawn EP1215631A1 (de)

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FR0016201A FR2817837B1 (fr) 2000-12-13 2000-12-13 Distributeur d'etiquettes en bande
FR0016201 2000-12-13

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US5390594A (en) * 1994-01-11 1995-02-21 Pitney Bowes Inc. Tape feeding, cutting and ejecting apparatus for a mailing machine
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