Printing – Rolling contact machines – Rotary
Patent
1987-08-19
1988-11-29
Eickholt, Eugene H.
Printing
Rolling contact machines
Rotary
271 4, 271 10, 271111, 271182, 271258, 271270, 198461, 198575, B41F 504
Patent
active
047873116
ABSTRACT:
A postage meter is mounted to a mailing machine at a location along the feed deck of the mailing machine such that a portion of the postage meter is in spaced relation to the feed deck to define a printing station. An inserter or other type of mailpiece inserter delivers a plurality of mailpieces to the feed deck of the mailing machine in a seriatim manner for the printing of an indicia on each of the mailpieces as it traverses the print station by the postage meter. The mailing machine is provided with a transport system comprising means for capturing each of the mailpieces as it is received from the inserter and controllably transporting the mailpiece along the feed deck and maintaining control during indicia printing by the postage meter and thereafter ejecting the mailpiece from the mailing machine. Also, a control means is provided for controlling the transport speed such that the initial velocity of the transport is generally equal to or greater than the velocity of the fed mailpiece. Subsequent to establishing control of the mailpiece and prior to indicia printing, the control means adjust the speed of the transport to a predetermined velocity if the initial velocity of the mailpiece is not equal to the predetermined velocity.
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Eickholt Eugene H.
Parks, Jr. Charles G.
Pitchenik David E.
Pitney Bowes Inc.
Scolnick Melvin J.
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