Patent ID: 8596634
Filing Date: 2013-12-03
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. A system for conveying mailpieces along a feed path, comprising: a first conveyance operative to convey mailpieces along the feed path, the first conveyance including a singulating belt and drive belt, the singulating and drive belts defining a throat for singulating a mailpiece from the stack of mailpieces, a second conveyance for accepting mailpieces from the first conveyance and conveying the singulated mailpiece downstream of the first conveyance; a series of sensors extending from the first to the second conveyance, and operative to issue a gap signal indicative of the relative spacing between sequential mailpieces along the feed path; a means, responsive to the gap signal, for developing a variable opposing force between the singulating and drive belts such that mailpieces are singulated along the feed path.