Package making – With means responsive to a sensed condition – Of individual contents or group feed or delivery
Patent
1988-02-29
1989-04-18
Coan, James F.
Package making
With means responsive to a sensed condition
Of individual contents or group feed or delivery
53 77, 53154, 53168, 364466, G01G 2328, B65B 3550
Patent
active
048214930
ABSTRACT:
In an inserting machine for collating inserts and placing a collation of said inserts into an envelope, a method is disclosed of determining the amount of postage to be applied to said envelope into which said collation of inserts have been inserted. The inserting machine includes a feed deck and a plurality of feed station adapted to selectively feed said inserts onto said feed deck. The method includes (A) feeding along said feed deck a control document having code thereon, (B) reading said code on said control document, (C) storing in data processing memory means a set of predetermined threshold values of a measurable cumulative attribute of said inserts, said threshold values corresponding to the amounts of postage for different postage categories, (D) repeatedly calculating a current attribute value difference (CAVD) between a first threshold value and the attribute values of the inserts being fed onto said feed deck pursuant to said code or other means governing the feeding of inserts onto said feed deck as long as the CAVD remains non-negative until the last desired insert is fed onto said feed deck, and (E) if the CAVD becomes negative, superseding said negative CAVD with a replacement CAVD which is equal to the next higher threshold value less the absolute value of said negative CAVD and repeating step (D), whereby the last desired insert is fed onto said feed deck without exceeding the amount of postage for one of said different postage categories, said amount of postage being the postage required for said envelope and said collation.
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Coan James F.
Pitchenik David E.
Pitney Bowes Inc.
Scolnick Melvin J.
Sklar Lawrence E.
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