US 12,280,593 B2
Device and method for processing documents
Hubert Dabrowski, Chemnitz (DE); and Andy Günther, Steinbach (DE)
Assigned to Mühlbauer GmbH & Co. KG, Roding (DE)
Appl. No. 18/250,108
Filed by Mühlbauer GmbH & Co. KG, Roding (DE)
PCT Filed Sep. 29, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/076879
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 21, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/083994, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 28, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 102020128018.1 (DE), filed on Oct. 23, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0406012 A1, Dec. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 13/00 (2006.01); B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41J 13/12 (2006.01); B41J 29/02 (2006.01); G06K 1/12 (2006.01); B42D 25/405 (2014.01); B42D 25/41 (2014.01); G06K 13/077 (2006.01); G06K 17/00 (2006.01); G06K 19/077 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 13/0009 (2013.01) [B41J 11/0015 (2013.01); B41J 11/0055 (2013.01); B41J 13/12 (2013.01); B41J 29/02 (2013.01); G06K 1/12 (2013.01); B42D 25/405 (2014.10); B42D 25/41 (2014.10); G06K 13/077 (2013.01); G06K 17/0003 (2013.01); G06K 19/07716 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device (100) for processing a document (D), the device comprising:
a processing device (110a; 110b; 110c; 110d) for providing a document (D) to be processed with information when this is in an effective range (110e) of the processing device (110a; 110b; 110c; 110d); and
a traversing device (108a,b) with a document carrier device (105) that can be traversed along a trajectory, wherein the traversing device (108a,b) is configured:
to receive a document (D) to be processed at a transfer position (T) of the device (100) on or at a document-carrying surface of the document carrier device (105);
to move the received document (D) by traversing the document carrier device (105) into the effective range (110e) of the processing device (110a; 110b; 110c; 110d) for its processing and out of the effective range (110e) of the processing device after it has been processed, wherein the traversing of the document carrier device (105) to this end takes place at least in a section (H1) of the trajectory, at least with respect to a movement direction component along a specific movement direction (z) which runs orthogonally to a plane defined by three different points on the document-carrying surface; and
to rotate the document-carrying surface about an axis of rotation (105c) aligned along the specific movement direction (z), so that the document (D), within the effective range (110e) of the processing device (110a; 110b; 110c; 110d) depending on an angle of rotation (φ) of this rotation, can be processed in one of at least two selectable different orientations of the document (D) relative to the processing device (110a; 110b; 110c; 110d).