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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 21, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Martin Sting, Frankfurt, DE;
Stefan Will, Biebertal, DE;
Assignee:
Pitney Bowes Technologies GmbH, Friedberg, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 5/900 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 5/900 ;
Abstract
A charging apparatus for handling stations for sheet-like, flexible articles, in particular envelopes, particularly for mail-processing machines, the drive in a feed-channel for stacks of articles standing on edge being controlled in dependence on a detector output signal produced by a light barrier, which responds to the formation of a gap and runs transversely to the conveying direction with the gap forming in the region of a transition between the feed channel and a discharge channel.