Optimized drive device for driving items of mail

Details Optimized drive device for driving items of mail Optimized drive device for driving items of mail

1997-01-31

1998-06-09

Skaggs, H. Grant

Sheet feeding or delivering

Feeding

By means to convey sheet

198624, B65H 506

Patent

active

057623325

ABSTRACT:
A drive device for driving items of mail along a conveyor path of a postage meter base, the device being disposed upstream from a print mechanism and including first and second motorized feed rollers cooperating with associated moving backing-rollers mounted on hinged means which can pivot about a common hinge axis against return springs fixed to support means, at least one of the backing-rollers comprising a middle backing-wheel mounted on a lever hinged about the common axis and disposed between twin outer backing-wheels each mounted on a respective lever also hinged about a common axis, such that mail items inserted on the conveyor path come into contact with one only of the outer backing-wheels and the middle backing-wheel, or else with all three backing-wheels, depending respectively on whether or not the items are thinner or thicker than a predetermined thickness.

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