Neopost Technologies

Neopost Industrie

Didier Painault

Christian Nicolas

Olivier Galtier

This mail-handling apparatus includes a feed module for feeding in mail items, a weigh module and a franking module. The weigh module includes regulator means for regulating the speed of advance of the conveyor means of the weigh module, which regulator means are adapted to take account of the weighing times taken to weigh the mail items.

Apparatus for handling mail on the fly

A method of checking the height of a mail item relative to at least one dimensional threshold SH defining a change in postage. The mail items are advanced at a constant speed V along a reference surface. The presence of a mail item is detected relative to a given point of the reference surface. First and second times t, tfor which the same mail item is present at the first and second distances d, drelative to the reference surface is detected. The ratio t/tis compared with a value equal to (1&#x2212;&#x3b5;), where &#x3b5; represents a correction coefficient of less than 1 that depends on the tolerances for detection of the presence of a mail item. The height of a mail item is considered greater than the dimensional threshold SH if, and only if, the relationship t/t&#x3e;1&#x2212;&#x3b5; is true.

Method and apparatus for checking the height of a mail item on the fly for franking purposes

A weighing module comprising a weighing platform incorporating a weighing cell and a motorized drive belt for transporting a mail item from one side to the other of the weighing platform, means for sensing the format of said mail item and processing means for calculating the weight of said mail item within a particular range of weights obtained beforehand from said format.

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Bagnolet, France

Didier Painault