Printing – Rolling contact machines – Rotary
Patent
1989-02-08
1989-11-28
Eickholt, E. H.
Printing
Rolling contact machines
Rotary
271245, 271246, 271265, 271236, B41F 1324
Patent
active
048829897
ABSTRACT:
In a mailing machine including a postage meter, wherein the postge meter includes rotary structure for printing indicia on a sheet fed to the machine, wherein the machine includes apparatus for driving the printing structure, wherein the machine includes apparatus for feeding a sheet fed thereto downstream in a path of travel through the machine, wherein the sheet feeding apparatus includes an impression roller rotatably mounted beneath the rotary printing structure, and wherein the impression roller has an inner end and an outer end, an improvement comprising: apparatus for aligning a sheet fed to the machine with the path of travel, the aligning apparatus including a registration fence aligned with the path of travel, the aligning apparatus including an elongate stop lever and a shaft on which the lever is pivotally mounted outboard of the outer end of the impression roller, the stop lever extending into the path of travel for pivoting a sheet fed thereto toward the registration fence, the aligning apparatus including a cam rotatable with the printing structure, the aligning apparatus including a cam follower secured to the shaft and disposed in engagement with the cam; and apparatus for starting operation of the driving apparatus in response to the sheet being fed to the machine, the driving apparatus rotating the cam when the driving apparatus is started, the stop lever located relative to the starting apparatus for pivoting a sheet fed thereto before the driving apparatus is started, and the cam dimensioned for rotating the cam shaft for lowering the stop lever out of the path of travel after the driving apparatus is started.
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Eickholt E. H.
Pitchenik David E.
Pitney Bowes Inc.
Scolnick Melvin J.
Walker Donald P.
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