Patent ID: 7896227

Claim:
An apparatus for recognizing user identifying data, stored in a support, and for joining the support to a corresponding document to be sent to the user, with said document being moved along a feeding line (A), which is controlled by a control unit (C), and which contains personal pieces of information to be sent to the user, characterized in that the apparatus includes: at least one magazine ( 10 ) for storing a series of supports ( 11 ), with each of said supports ( 11 ) containing identifying data of a relevant user and being joined to a corresponding document of a plurality of documents (D); a plurality of reading devices ( 12 ) for reading and recognizing the data stored in said supports ( 11 ); a work unit (L), situated near said feeding line (A) and having a work surface ( 13 ), on which said reading devices ( 12 ) are placed, with said work unit (L) operating said work surface ( 13 ) into rotation in a rotating direction ({acute over (ω)}), to convey angularly the reading devices ( 12 ), so that each reading device is placed, for each complete rotation of said work surface ( 13 ), subsequently in positions corresponding to a first section (S 1 ) and to a second section (S 2 ) of said work unit (L); first conveying means (T 1 ), which are situated between said magazine ( 10 ) and said first section (S 1 ) of the work unit (L), and which convey said supports ( 11 ), one after another, from the magazine ( 10 ) to a respective reading device ( 12 ) and which subsequently introduce said supports into said reading device ( 12 ), which reading device ( 12 ) has been concurrently placed by the work unit (L) in a position corresponding to the first section (S 1 ), to recognize the data stored in the supports ( 11 ); second conveying means (T 2 ), which are situated between the second section (S 2 ) of the work unit (L) and a third section ( 20 ) of said feeding line (A), and which convey said supports ( 11 ), one after another, from a relative reading device ( 12 ) to said third section ( 20 ), after the recognition of the data stored in the supports by the reading device ( 12 ), performed during the support passage, one after another, from the first section (S 1 ) to the second section (S 2 ), by the work unit (L), and as a consequence of the removal of the each support from the reading device ( 12 ), each said support ( 11 ) being joined to a corresponding document (D), fed by said feeding line (A) to the third section ( 20 ).