Patent ID: 6763648
Filing Date: 2004-07-20
Classification: B43M

Abstract:
A drive and actuating system for an envelope-filling station in which enclosures or sets of enclosures are fed, by means of a continuously driven conveyor, to a push-in station in which a push-in arrangement, which has a pivot drive, receives the enclosures or sets of enclosures and pushes them into envelopes, which are held ready in an open state, in a direction which corresponds to the conveying direction of the conveyor, wherein the envelopes are delivered into a position opposite the push-in station, from a direction oriented transversely to the push-in direction, by means of an envelope-conveying arrangement which contains an envelope-conveying belt, which is oriented transversely to the push-in direction, and an abutment arrangement, which can be lowered thereon, and raised therefrom, in a controlled manner, and position-detector means which are provided along the path of the envelope-conveying belt, wherein the abutment arrangement is fastened at the front ends of the two links which are supported such that they can be pivoted in relation to the side walls of a housing of the push-in station and each bear, in corresponding regions between their pivot bearing and the location at which they are fastened on the abutment arrangement, cam follower rollers which each butt against cams which are seated on a shaft with a driven roller or driven chain wheels of the conveyor, such that the abutment arrangement is moved up and down synchronously with the feed of the enclosures or sets of enclosures by means of the conveyor by way of a common drive motor.