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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2009
Applicants:
Fabien Chatte, Nogent sur Marne, FR;
Romain Pillard, Avon, FR;
Inventors:
Fabien Chatte, Nogent sur Marne, FR;
Romain Pillard, Avon, FR;
Assignee:
Neopost Technologies, Bagneux, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 5/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a mailpiece feed device comprising a mailpiece-receiving deck through which motor-driven conveyor members pass and on which a stack of mailpieces stands, and a monitoring and control circuit for actuating said motor-driven members at a determined drive speed in order to enable said mailpieces to be extracted one-by-one downstream, there is provided a method of controlling said motor-driven conveyor members wherein the drive speed of said motor-driven conveyor members varies as a function of the weight of said stack of mailpieces standing on said mailpiece-receiving deck.