Patent ID: 6996959
Filing Date: 2006-02-14
Classification: B43M

Abstract:
1. An envelope-filling station for mail-processing systems, the envelope-filling station comprising; a feeding device for horizontally feeding enclosures along a conveying path to a push-in arrangement, a push-in direction of which is in the conveying direction of the conveying path; an envelope-separating arrangement for separating envelopes from an envelope stack and for producing a sequence of separated envelopes; an envelope-conveying device which is arranged parallel to the conveying path, alongside the latter, and is intended for receiving the sequence of separated envelopes and for transferring the same to an intermediate envelope-conveying device wherein the intermediate envelope-conveying device transports the envelopes received from the envelope-conveying device, to the push-in arrangement; and wherein, the intermediate envelope-conveying device has a conveying direction running at an angle in the range of from 15° to 75° to a conveying direction of the envelope-conveying device and, in a section which is adjacent to the push-in arrangement, the intermediate envelope-conveying device is designed such that a conveyed envelope can be displaced in its plane relative to the intermediate envelope-conveying device; wherein, provided at the end of the intermediate envelope-conveying device, in the position opposite the push-in arrangement, is an angled stop arrangement, the angled stop arrangement having a first part and a second part, wherein the first part can be switched to an active or inactive state and against which, in its active position, the envelope is positioned for receiving an enclosure from the push-in arrangement, and is restrained from moving perpendicular to the push-in direction; wherein, once the envelope has been filled with the enclosure the angled stop arrangement can then be switched to the inactive state such that the filled envelope can be conveyed away from the envelope-filing station by an envelope-advancing device; and wherein, once the angled stop arrangement has been switched to the active state and before being switched to the inactive state, the second part of the angled stop arrangement is moved into an intermediate stop position in which the second part, against which the envelope edge which is perpendicular to the push-in direction of the push-in arrangement is positioned, is moved back, by a comparatively small distance in relation to the push-in movement, in the push-in direction, and wherein the second part of the angled stop arrangement is movable independently of the first part to achieve the intermediate stop position.