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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2000
Martin Sting, Bad Vilbel, DE;
Christian Botschek, Rodermark, DE;
Abstract
In an apparatus for handling sheet-like articles, in particular in an envelope-filling station, in which a carrier ( ) provided with push-in fingers ( ) is moved back and forth by means of an actuating arrangement ( ) in order for articles which are conveyed up by means of a conveying path ( ) to be received from the conveying path and handled in the conveying direction, improved adaptation of the handling speed of the push-in fingers ( ) to the conveying speed of the conveying path ( ) is achieved in that a drive mechanism ( ) of the actuating arrangement contains a crank drive, on the crankshaft ( ) of which there is fastened an elliptical two-belt pulley ( ) which is coupled, via a toothed belt ( ) to a continuously driven, round belt pulley ( ).