Patent ID: 6957521
Filing Date: 2005-10-25
Classification: B43M

Abstract:
1. An envelope-filling station for mail-processing systems, having an envelope-conveying device comprising: a horizontal envelope-feeding arrangement supplying a stream of separated, open envelopes with a leading closed bottom envelope edge in a direction parallel to an inserting direction of an enclosure-inserting station; an intermediate envelope-conveying arrangement receiving envelopes from the envelope-feeding arrangement and conveying the envelopes with translatory movement, at an angle in the range of from approximately 40° to 60° relative to the conveying direction of the envelope-feeding arrangement, against an angle stop arrangement which contains a stopping straightedge by means of which, with the intermediate envelope-conveying arrangement still being driven, the leading envelope edge is oriented precisely in relation to a direction transverse to the inserting direction of the inserting station; and an envelope-advancing arrangement for conveying the envelopes further once enclosures or sets of enclosures have been inserted, wherein the angle stop arrangement has a conveying nip between a top strand of an intermittently driven conveying belt of the envelope-advancing arrangement and a pressure-exerting roller which is pre-stressed against the top strand of said conveying belt, and in that, following the pressure-exerting roller in an advancing direction, interacting with the intermittently driven top strand of the conveying belt of the envelope-advancing arrangement is a roller bar which is controlled to be moved intermittently up and down and extends above the conveying belt of the envelope-advancing arrangement at least over a region in front of the inserting station, as seen in the conveying direction.