Patent ID: 9656511
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: B43M

Claim:
1. A filling station for filling an envelope, the filling station being configured to receive a filling material and an envelope, the filling station comprising: a filling area comprising at least one filling aid; an envelope feeding plane configured to receive an envelope and to arrange the envelope at least partly at a position outside the filling area; and a transport device configured to move an envelope, which is arranged in the envelope feeding plane, into the filling area; the envelope feeding plane being configured to receive a subsequent envelope during a movement of the preceding envelope from the envelope feeding plane into the filling area and/or during filling of the preceding envelope, and to keep same outside the filling area, and the envelope feeding plane being configured to receive the subsequent envelope below a position where an envelope is filled so that, in operation, at least the envelope and the subsequent envelope are located one above the other simultaneously, the envelope within the filling area and the subsequent envelope are within the envelope feeding plane, the envelope and the subsequent envelope are arranged in an at least partially overlapping manner when viewed from above, wherein the filling area is the area in which the envelope and the subsequent envelope are arranged to completely or partly overlap, and wherein the transport device is configured to move the subsequent envelope out of the envelope feeding plane and into the filling area once filling of the preceding envelope has been completed and before discharge of the filled envelope from the filling area has been completed.