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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2001
François Agier, Bourg-les-Valence, FR;
Vincent Grasswill, Montelier, FR;
Christian Laumond, Chabeuil, FR;
Mannesmann Dematic Postal Automation S.A., Gentilly, FR;
Abstract
A routing device that allows two incoming streams of flat objects on two upstream conveyors to converge symmetrically at a small angle toward a downstream conveyor and be grouped into a single stream of flat objects, such that the two upstream conveyors paths form a Y-shaped structure with the conveying path defined by the downstream conveyor. The upstream conveyors each have a press belt ( ) stretched over elastically deformable wheels ( ) with fixed axles and a backing belt ( ) against which the press belt presses to convey the flat objects. The press belts ( ) of the upstream conveyors meet at a gripping point constituting the entry to the downstream conveyor and are pressed against one another downstream of the gripping point by two elastically deformable wheels ( ′) with fixed axles for defining the path of the downstream conveyor.