Patent ID: 7500554
Filing Date: 2009-03-10
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for conveying mail flats in an upright position with at least one conveying module comprising a circulating, horizontally oriented floor belt guided via return rollers, and two endless lateral guide belts guided via deflection rollers, wherein: the distance of the lateral guide belts from one another at ends of the conveying modules is greater than a thickest mail item to be conveyed, the height of a first lateral guide belt is implemented less than that of the second lateral guide belt, below the first lateral guide belt there is disposed an elastic, narrow, endless pressure belt which is resiliently pressed against the lower part of the second lateral guide belt by means of pressure deflection rollers and pressed away from the second lateral guide belt by the mail items according to their thickness, and guide rails with a low coefficient of friction with respect to the mail items and which absorb impacts of the mail items at the pressure deflection rollers are mounted obliquely to the conveying direction and tangentially to the pressure deflection rollers and which.