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Drive apparatus for a mail-processing system

  • US 20060218877A1
  • Filed: 04/01/2005
  • Published: 10/05/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. Drive apparatus for a mail-processing system which has a driven enclosure-collating path and has conveying fingers arranged on endless, circulating conveying loops, and an inserting station, at a downstream end of the enclosure-collating path, and by means of which sets of enclosures formed on the enclosure-collating path are inserted into envelopes, which are conveyed on an envelope-filling table, parallel to the enclosure-collating path, by means of an envelope-gripper chain and are held open opposite the inserting station and, once filled with the sets of enclosures, are conveyed away from the inserting station by means of the envelope-gripper chain, the conveying loops of the enclosure-collating path and the envelope-gripper chain each being driven by intermittently rotating drive shaft wherein an intermittently rotating drive shaft which is coupled to the drive for the enclosure-collating path bears a first pulley of a first drive loop which is guided downwards from a level of the enclosure-collating path and serves for driving a second pulley which is mounted in a substructure of the envelope-filling table and around which is positioned a second drive loop which is guided essentially horizontally in the substructure to a corresponding third pulley which is supported and guided in a region of the substructure in a vicinity of an end of the envelope-gripper chain, and from which a third loop leads to a fourth pulley which serves for driving the envelope-gripper chain, said driving-chain wheel being mounted on the envelope-filling table, in the vicinity of the end thereof.

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