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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2011
Filed:
May. 27, 1999
Martin Sting, Bad Vilbel, DE;
Axel Brauneis, Munzenberg, DE;
Martin Sting, Bad Vilbel, DE;
Axel Brauneis, Munzenberg, DE;
Pitney Bowes Deutschland GmbH, Heppenheim, DE;
Abstract
In the case of a mail-processing machine having a conveying path () which contains a circulating conveying chain and conveys onto a handling station (), easy changeover to a variety of processing tasks and good adaptability to constricted space conditions are achieved in that, by a switchable actuating arrangement, manipulator fingers () articulated on a manipulator hand (), in the handling station (), can be switched both into the operating position both for the forward stroke of the manipulator hand and for the return stroke of the manipulator hand and into the return position both for the return stroke of the manipulator hand and for the forward stroke of the manipulator hand. Free through-passage-channel areas () for sheet like article and sets thereof which are to be processed further or are to be inserted into envelopes are provided in the handling station, not only with regard to the direction (F) from the feeding conveying chain and to a laterally adjacent first processing arrangement but also in the opposite direction perpendicular to the feed direction of the first conveying chain.