EP2072267A2 - Dispositif de transport pour des produits plats à imprimer - Google Patents

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EP2072267A2
EP2072267A2 EP08019317A EP08019317A EP2072267A2 EP 2072267 A2 EP2072267 A2 EP 2072267A2 EP 08019317 A EP08019317 A EP 08019317A EP 08019317 A EP08019317 A EP 08019317A EP 2072267 A2 EP2072267 A2 EP 2072267A2
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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
    • G07B17/00467—Transporting 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
    • B41J11/00—Devices or arrangements  of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
    • B41J11/007—Conveyor belts or like feeding devices
    • 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
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J3/00—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed
    • B41J3/407—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
    • 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
    • G07B17/00459—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

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  • the invention relates to a transport device for flat goods to be printed according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • the invention is used in microprocessor-controlled printing devices and is suitable for franking machines and other mail processing devices.
  • the invention makes it possible to achieve a small offset of the dots in the printing, which in particular improves the machine readability of an impression of a franked mailpiece.
  • a transport principle with an overhead belt and a bottom-mounted sprung counter-pressure device, between which a mailpiece is clamped, is known from the patent DD 233 101 B5
  • a thermal transfer ribbon is not suitable as a conveyor belt.
  • the thermal transfer ribbon is disposed above a feed table over which the mail pieces are transported horizontally post-downstream.
  • the feed table has openings through which a driven counter-pressure roller passes through the mail item.
  • a second printing position for printing franking strips is provided, which are rolled up on rolls and which are unrolled for printing.
  • This second printing path causes higher production costs.
  • a printing device for an ink-jet franking machine has already been proposed, wherein a franking print is printed by means of an ink-jet print head on a mail piece in the case of an approximately horizontal letter transport.
  • the ink jet printhead is arranged to be stationary behind a guide plate in a recess for printing.
  • As a transport device is a revolving conveyor belt, which is also arranged on the side of the guide plate.
  • a supporting and pressing device is arranged with a plurality of rollers, so that a fed mail piece between the rollers of the support and pressure device and the circulating conveyor belt is clamped.
  • the device can not avoid skewing the print carrier. Even an insufficiently tensioned conveyor belt or not exactly parallel alignment of the axes of those rollers on which the conveyor belt rotates, carries the aforementioned danger in itself. Due to the large number of roles of support and pressure device latter is very expensive.
  • JetMail ® In the DE 196 05 015 C1 ( US 5,949,444 ) an embodiment for a printing device of an ink-jet franking machine JetMail ® has been proposed by the applicant Francotyp-Postalia AG & Co., at a non-horizontal approximately vertical letter transport performs a franking pressure by means of an ink jet printhead, which is arranged behind a guide plate in a recess stationary.
  • a transport device is a revolving conveyor belt with pressure elements for the mail pieces (letters to 20 mm thickness, DIN B4 format) or for franking strips, which are formed aufklebbar on packets of any thickness.
  • the print carrier (letter, packet, franking strip) is clamped between the pressure elements and the guide plate.
  • An apparatus for character printing on a predetermined place on one side of a flat recording medium and a correspondingly equipped franking machine are known.
  • a transport belt is arranged on the one hand on the inkjet printhead side and on the other hand forms a non-suspended support means for the print side of a flat recording medium (object, mail, envelope).
  • a counter-pressure device supports the flat object from below, in which a belt rolls around at least two other rollers, at least one of which is not suspended.
  • One from the EP 1 170 141 B1 Known device for printing a print carrier in the printing area uses in the power transmission area a driven transport drum and non-driven counter-pressure rollers or alternatively a non-driven counter-pressure conveyor belt.
  • a stationary ink jet printhead prints in the print area the downstream moving print carrier, wherein the ink jet print head is arranged axially to the transport drum.
  • the printing area is preferably about 1 inch and is spaced from the power transmission area, wherein the distance of the farthest pixel from the edge of the transport drum is smaller than the radius of the circumference of the transport drum.
  • the disadvantage is the low approximately linear contact of the mail piece surface to be printed with the transport drum and a spaced feed wheel for mailpieces.
  • the feed wheel is driven by a toothed belt from the transport drum. This causes a ⁇ x offset of the dots in the print image. Othogonal this results in a ⁇ y offset of the dots in the printed image, especially in very large mailpieces.
  • the structure also causes high manufacturing costs. In the market segment of franking machines with small to medium Mailgut pensatz a compact transport device for mail pieces with the lowest possible production costs is required.
  • the invention has for its object to develop a transport device of a printing device for flat goods, which ensures a high print quality at a mean throughput of flat goods in cooperation with a microprocessor-controlled printing device.
  • the reliability of the printing device should be as high as possible and the printing offset in the x-direction and y-direction should be low.
  • postcards and on the other hand C4 and B4 letters with a mail piece thickness up to 10 mm are to be processed.
  • a printing position is achieved.
  • the printing module is held in the printing position and a transport device is arranged to horizontally transport flat goods or a mail piece past the print head.
  • the transport device is stationarily arranged in the printing device with respect to a pressure device which presses the mail piece to the conveyor belt.
  • the conveyor belt acts in the transport area with a predetermined stiction on a part of the surface of the mail piece, which is not printed, but is located near the area to be printed.
  • a printing module is arranged counter to the direction of gravity over a printing window in the z direction of a Cartesian coordinate system.
  • a print image is generated by at least one print head.
  • at least one print head of an ink cartridge ejects ink droplets opposite to the z direction in the direction of gravity through the print window.
  • the printing window is arranged on the edge of a conveyor belt in a housing part, wherein the conveyor belt transports a flat good to be printed on the edge during printing in the transport direction x past the at least one print head.
  • the flat goods are pressed against the force of gravity to the conveyor belt in a support area.
  • a support region is advantageous, which is located on both sides of a line, which is centered through the printing window transversely to the transport direction x in the y-direction of the Cartesian coordinate system runs, stretched.
  • the conveyor belt is supported on a support plate, which is arranged above the transport region between a molding plate and a bearing plate of a roller carrier, wherein the support surface of the support plate is larger than the surface of the pressure window, which is adjacent to the support plate.
  • the printing device is arranged in a box-shaped chassis.
  • the box-shaped construction ensures a high stability with a very simple structure.
  • the transport device for flat goods to be printed has a printing module in the printing position, from which the printing module can be moved in a conventional manner into a cleaning and sealing position by transverse movement means known per se transversely to the mailpiece transport direction.
  • the cleaning and sealing position can advantageously be arranged closer to the conveyor belt. This also reduced the size of the chassis and housing across the mailpiece transport direction.
  • the conveyor belt is preferably a driven wide tensioned flat belt.
  • the latter is guided by means of deflection rollers both over the printing module and under the printing module along, while the printing module is in a printing position. In the printing position, the printing module protrudes at least partially into the intermediate space between the two deflection rollers, but the heads of the two ink cartridges continue to be outside the transport area.
  • FIG. 1 Figure 3 is a perspective view of a flat goods transport device with a print module in a printing position.
  • the transport device 1 is an essential part of a franking machine and is arranged above a feed table 13.
  • a - not shown - from below resiliently pressing device is arranged below the feed table and acts through an opening 130 through the feed through in the z-direction.
  • a franking machine is known, inter alia, from a - not shown - electronic part (meters) and the mail piece transport device with a - not shown - electronic control.
  • a keyboard and a display unit of the meter are connected to the electronic part, not shown.
  • the electronic controller is electrically connected to a drive 19 of the mail piece transport device for driving them.
  • the transport device 1 has a conveyor belt 2, which is designed as a flat belt.
  • the flat belt operates in the transport area with a predetermined stiction on a part of the surface of the flat goods or mailpieces, which is not printed, but is close to the printing area.
  • the flat belt of the mailpiece transport device has a large transverse rigidity and is guided over two pulleys 5 and 6.
  • the flat belt on the one hand passes under the pressure module and is on the other hand returned via the printing module.
  • the printing module is known to consist of a print carriage 24, a - not shown - contacting and control electronics on the back of the print carriage 24, and at least one print head, for example, an ink cartridge with integrated inkjet printhead.
  • the print carriage 24 contributes in the example shown Fig. 1 preferably two ink cartridges 11, 12, which are offset from one another in the x and y directions. Alternatively, several ink cartridges are possible.
  • the print carriage 24 each has an opening 2410, 2420 for inserting the ink cartridges 11, 12, which is bounded laterally by a right and left side plate 244 and 243 and the bottom side by a carrier molding and the back by a contact field of contacting and control electronics.
  • the carrier molding consists of two halves, wherein a first half 241 is provided with a first opening 2410 for insertion of the first ink cartridge 11 and a second half 242 with a second opening 2420 for insertion of the second ink cartridge 12 and offset in the x direction to the first half ,
  • the first carrier molding half 241 is offset in the y-direction to the second half.
  • Each opening is closed at the top by a closing lever 247, 248 per cartridge.
  • the printing module protrudes in the printing position in the space between the guide rollers 5 and 6, wherein the ink jet print heads of the two ink cartridges 11, 12 are located outside the transport area and arranged above a - not shown - pressure window against the direction of gravity in the z direction of a Cartesian coordinate system are.
  • the bellies 11.1, 12.1 of the two ink cartridges 11, 12 are located within the space between the guide rollers 5 and 6 above a support plate.
  • FIG. 2 a perspective view of the transport device is shown in exploded view. It is envisaged that the conveyor belt 2 is supported on the support plate, which is arranged above the transport region between a molding plate 21 and a bearing plate 22 of a roller carrier 20B.
  • the support surface of the support plate is here greater than the area of a (non-visible) printing window, which is opposite to the at least one ink jet print head.
  • the pressure window is arranged adjacent to the support plate in a table top of the feed table 13 in the y-direction offset from the opening 130, through which a resiliently pressing from below pressure device (not shown) protrudes, which is arranged below the feed table.
  • the printing carriage 24 of the printing module is accordingly adapted to slide on two slide bars 271, 272, which are fixed on the rear side to a rear wall 25 of a box-shaped chassis 20A and the front side to a bearing plate 22 of a roller carrier 20B for the pulleys the roller carrier 20B with the deflection rollers 5 and 6 and with the conveyor belt 2 is a removable from the chassis 20A and replaceable part of the transport device 1.
  • the drive 19 for example, an electric motor with gear, fixed and acts drivingly directly on the shaft of the guide roller 5 a.
  • the driver 19 may be attached to the box-shaped chassis 20A (not shown).
  • the shaft of the drive 19 and the shaft of the guide roller 5 are then coupled to each other via coupling means.

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EP1079975B1 (fr) 1999-03-16 2006-11-29 SECAP (Groupe Pitney Bowes) Dispositif pour imprimer un signe et machine a affranchir le comportant
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