Package making – Wrapping machines – Packet or envelope type
Patent
1997-05-06
1998-11-17
Coan, James F.
Package making
Wrapping machines
Packet or envelope type
53 55, 53550, 53569, B65B 1120, B65B 3524
Patent
active
058361383
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for assembling and packaging mail items, comprising a transport track which includes an endless conveyor with mail item forwarding projections and a conveyor drive, as well as at least one feeding device with a feeding device drive, which feeding device is arranged above and in-line with the transport track for the purpose of feeding documents, such as for instance supplements, the feeding device comprising a feeding device delivery gap located some distance above a transport surface formed by the transport track, characterized by a document guiding device arranged downstream of the feeding device delivery gap, which document guiding device comprises a first endless conveyor and a second endless conveyor each having a portion of a transport part in mutual abutment and thus forming a document guiding path bounded by a document guiding path infeed gap and a document guiding path delivery gap, with a drive of the first and the second endless conveyor being independent of the feeding device drive, and in operation the transport speeds of the first and the second conveyor are equal to each other.
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Buhrs Zaanhdam B.V.
Coan James F.
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