Patent ID: 6221159
Filing Date: 2001-04-24
Classification: B43M

Abstract:
Moistening system comprising:a moistening member, segmented into a plurality of segments;a flat holder for mounting said moistening member; anda water reservoir, said moistening member being mounted by said flat holder on said reservoir and having a projecting part for moistening envelope flaps of postal articles as said articles move along a path and said flaps are applied against said projecting part, said reservoir being mounted with said moistening member carried thereby transversely below the path and extending over substantially the entire width of the path,said reservoir including a series of partitions dividing said reservoir across the width of the path into independent compartments, equal in number to said segments, with said compartments individually supplying water to said segments of moistening member,wherein said reservoir is in the form of an elongate narrow parallelepiped-shape reservoir having a length substantially equal to the length of said path and in which said partitions defining said compartments extend over the full height of said compartments and said moistening member extends over the length of the reservoir and is disposed vertically in the reservoir and dips into the individual compartments,said reservoir having an upper surface closed by a lid incorporating a base matched to the dimension of the upper surface, said moistening member passing through said lid and being received in part in the individual compartments, wherein said lid comprises a longitudinal feed trough on an exterior side of said base which communicates with said compartments through holes in the bottom of said trough.