Patent ID: 7944097
Filing Date: 2011-05-17
Classification: B65H,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A drive mechanism for a sorting gate of a mail sorting machine, used to deflect flat, flexible mail items as they are transported through a mail sorting machine, comprising: a single piece base plate that has a bottom plate; a shaft; a bearing assembly for mounting the shaft on the single piece base plate; a stator, which is permanently fastened to the single piece base plate; a rotor, which is rotatably mounted in the single piece base plate so as to accommodate the shaft and rotate the shaft; a location opening which extends transversely to the extension of the shaft in the bottom of the single piece base plate; and a connection dome on the single piece base plate for mounting the shaft, wherein the connection dome extends to a side of and above a first bearing, which is held in the bottom of the single piece base plate in a first bearing seat, and has a second bearing seat for a second bearing for mounting the shaft, characterized in that wherein the location opening has at least one stop surface, which is arranged as a wall section of the single piece base plate for the purpose of limiting a path of travel of at least one stop, which is formed or non-rotatably arranged on the rotor, during rotation of the rotor in the direction of rotation of the at least one stop.