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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2014
Filed:
May. 16, 2012
Attilio DE Ambrogio, Cigliano, IT;
Daniele Piana, Quagliuzzo, IT;
Attilio De Ambrogio, Cigliano, IT;
Daniele Piana, Quagliuzzo, IT;
Neopost Technologies, Bagneux, FR;
Abstract
Flat item feeding apparatus () having a delivering section () for receiving a large batch of flat items on a transport surface () and a singulating section () for extracting these items one by one and transferring them downstream. The delivering section includes a transport device () for conveying the stacked on edge flat items towards the singulating section, a pushing device () for jogging the stacked on edge flat items during the conveying. The transport device has an endless belt () protruding a transport deck () within a conveying zone B of length d of the delivering section and located a distance d2 from a downstream pulley () and a distance d1 from an upstream pulley (), the distances d1 and d2 respectively defining determined conveying zone A, C in which the at least one endless belt remains below the transport deck.