Patent ID: 6758027
Filing Date: 2004-07-06
Classification: B43M

Abstract:
An envelope-filling bench for adding onto a push-in station of a mail-processing machine, in which enclosures or sets of enclosures are conveyed into the push-in station by means of a conveyor and are pushed into envelopes by means of a push-in arrangement, said envelopes being conveyed, on the envelope-filling bench, into a position opposite the push-in arrangement, opened, held ready for receiving the enclosures or sets of enclosures and, once filled, being closed and conveyed further, characterized in that the envelope-filling bench has two vertical, mutually parallel transverse partition walls which can be connected to an end wall of the push-in station, run transversely to the envelope-transporting direction and extend in a bottom region of an angled sheet-metal C-profile support, which extends in the envelope-transporting direction and opens towards the push-in station, and are fastened on said support, in that an angled sheet-metal L-profile support is welded to the sheet-metal C-profile support so as to form, in the top part of the sheet-metal C-profile support, a box chamber which has a rectangular cross section and runs in the envelope-conveying direction, and in that mounted on the side walls of the box chamber, in pre-punched openings of the sheet-metal C-profile support and/or the sheet-metal L-profile support, are horizontal shafts or spindles of rollers of envelope-conveying means, which convey envelopes on the top outer surface of the sheet-metal C-profile support.