Solystic

Jean-Marc Teluob

Hicham El Bernoussi

Bernard Constant

Jean-Michel Reboul

Stephane Ambroise

Karim Kara

Alain Danjaume

Fabrice Eyraud

Fabrice Darrou

Francois Chaume

Stephane Marisy

Patrick Hours

Stéphane Ambroise

Steve Breysse

Patrick Tetaz

Anthony La Paglia

Jean-Raoul Dian

Stèphane Ambroise

Fran&ccedil;ois Chaume

A feeder device for feeding mailpieces to a postal sorting conveyor has an unstacker head designed to put the mailpieces in series and on edge on the sorting conveyor, an unstacker plate designed to unstack the mailpieces one-by-one towards the unstacker head, and a mailpiece feed conveyor designed to convey the mailpieces in a stack and on edge against the unstacker plate. The unstacker plate has a stationary portion that extends from the unstacker head, and a moving portion that extends the stationary portion, said moving portion being mounted to pivot from the stationary portion between a first position in which the stationary portion and the moving portion are aligned with each other, and a second position in which the stationary portion and the moving portion are angularly offset relative to each other.

Feeder device for feeding mailpieces to a postal sorting conveyor

Apparatus for measuring the stiffness of mail articles on the principle of measuring deflection of a beam in bending comprises a rectilinear conveying portion for conveying the mail articles, a deflection roller disposed in a staggered offset manner between two wheels having deformable rims in such a manner as to form a substantially triangular peak on the rectilinear conveying portion, and an inlet ramp that is disposed upstream from the peak and that follows the upward slope of the peak.

Apparatus for measuring the stiffness of mailpieces

An unstacker device comprises a floor and a retaining paddle that are designed to move a stack of mailpieces from a feed magazine towards an unstacker head under the action of a monitoring and control unit as the mailpieces are being unstacked from the front of the stack. The device further comprises a vision system suitable for forming a profile digital image of said stack of mailpieces in the magazine, and said unit is arranged to evaluate a certain inclination of the mailpieces in the stack on the basis of said profile image and to cause the floor and the paddle to move so as to present the mailpiece at the front of the stack in a satisfactory position on edge so that it can be unstacked by the unstacker head.

Unstacker device with a vision system

The method of detecting a mailpiece of the open mailpiece type such as a non-wrapped magazine consists in causing the mailpiece () to pass on edge through a first conveyor (A) arranged to move the mailpiece () by nipping it while holding it tightly over substantially the entire height of the mailpiece, then to pass on edge through a second conveyor (B) arranged to move the mailpiece () by nipping it while leaving a top end (B) of the mailpiece free to fan out. Two measurements are taken of the thickness of the mailpiece () respectively when the mailpiece is in the first conveyor (A) and when it is in the second conveyor (B), for the purpose of determining, by differentially comparing the two measurements, whether the mailpiece is an open mailpiece.

Method of detecting open mailpieces such as non-wrapped magazines

Apparatus designed to cancel at least one postage or franking mark on a surface of a mailpiece moving on edge in a belt conveyor, said apparatus comprising: a conveyor portion with a plurality of small superposed belts and a plurality of superposed print heads; and control means for controlling the print heads in such a manner as to cause a print head to print one or more cancellation marks over the franking mark(s) detected on the mailpiece. Each print head is suitable for operating selectively with a plurality of superposed inkjets so as to print only a portion (&#xbe;, &#xbd;, &#xbc;) of said cancellation mark or a scaled-down version thereof over the franking mark when said franking mark is positioned in such a manner as to be off-center between two belts.

Cancellation apparatus

A method of using reflection of a laser ray (LZ) for measuring the thickness (e) of a flat mail item () consists in nipping the mail item by means of an elastically deformable member () that has a first surface () in contact with one face of said mail item, and a reflective second surface () substantially parallel to said first surface, and in directing the laser ray onto said reflective second surface () for the purpose of measuring the thickness of the mail item.

Method for measuring the thickness of a mail item

In a machine for processing mail articles, the method of distinguishing between mail articles (P , P , P ) contained in envelopes made out of paper and mail articles contained in envelopes made out of plastics material, consists in displacing each mail article in front of a pressure member ( ) so as to produce an acoustic signal that results from a suction effect of the pressure member on one face of said article while it moves in front of said pressure member, and in comparing said acoustic signal with a reference signal in order to detect whether the envelope of said article is made out of paper or out of plastics material.

Acoustic method for discriminating paper and plastic envelopes

A device ( ) for removing flat objects from a stack includes a magazine ( ), in which flat objects are stacked on edge to be serialized, and a vertical destacking plate ( ) disposed directly in front of the magazine ( ) and against which the first object (O ) of the stack is pressed. The first object (O ) of the stack is ejected in a direction (E) perpendicular to the direction of advance (D) of the stack of flat objects in the magazine ( ). The device ( ) also includes means ( ) for measuring the thickness of each flat object pressed against the destacking plate ( ). This thickness measurement serves as a feedback control for the movement of the stack of flat objects in the magazine ( ). The device ( ) may be used in a postal sorting machine.

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Jean-Marc Teluob