DEVICE FOR FEEDING LALERALLY STOOD STACK OF FLAT ARTICLES FACING TO DE-STACKER HEAD OF AUTOMATIC SORTING MACHINE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THIS DEVICE

摘要

PURPOSE: To reduce variation in a prescribed period and to optimize a flow rate in accordance with a de-stacker head to improve a device performance by providing a second carrying magazine with a conveying surface tilting so as to move up, and providing the edge of the second magazine adjacent to the support surface of the de-stacker head higher than the support surface. ;CONSTITUTION: The upstream edge of a second magazine adjacent to a main magazine 3 is about 30 mm lower, for example, than the operation surface of the magazine 3. An edge adjacent to a preceding de-stacker magazine 11 is higher than the support surface 5 of a de-stacker head 2 for realizing the fall of an object, and is several cm away from the surface of the head 2 to form a preceding magazine 11. This device assures the separation of the stack of letters just upstream of the head 2, and the sufficient preceding separation of postal matters is executed by the fine inclination of letters toward a rear part. Thus, overturning of the letters forward with respect to the head 2, just as a plurality of the sealed letters are caught at the feeding stage of the magazine 11, is avoided.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1994,JPO