Patent ID: 6959526
Filing Date: 2005-11-01
Classification: B43M

Abstract:
1. An envelope-filling station for mail-processing systems comprising: a feeding device for horizontally feeding enclosures or sets of enclosures along a conveying path to a push-in arrangement; an envelope-separating arrangement for separating envelopes from an envelope stack and for producing a sequence of separated envelopes; an envelope-conveying device, having a conveying direction parallel to the conveying path, receiving the sequence of separated envelopes, for conveying the envelopes with envelope flaps trailing relative the conveying direction and having an end section providing a normal frictional force to contain a separated envelope in the end section such that the envelope can be moved with a horizontal movement component transverse to the conveying direction of the envelope-conveying device; an intermediate envelope-conveying device receiving separated envelopes from the envelope conveying device and transporting them from the envelope conveying device to a push-in position proximal to the push-in arrangement and having a conveying direction running at an angle (α) in the range of from 15 degrees to 75 degrees to the conveying direction of the envelope-conveying device, whereby the angled conveying direction is facilitated by the horizontal movement component allowed by the end section of the envelope conveying device, as the separated envelopes are removed from the end section; and an aligning means by which an envelope which is to be filled is positioned adjacent to the push-in arrangement.