Printing – Selective or progressive – Rotary machines
Patent
1975-10-06
1977-07-12
Rader, Ralph T.
Printing
Selective or progressive
Rotary machines
101 45, 235 58P, 235101, B41L 4746
Patent
active
040346692
ABSTRACT:
A setting mechanism for a postage meter for use in a continuous mail sorting and postage imprinting system which automatically weighs and meters each piece of mail. The system is designed to rapidly handle a large quantity of mixed mail. Mixed mail is continuously and synchronously fed in seriatim along a continuous feed path. Unsealed envelopes have their flaps wetted and sealed. All the envelopes are stopped at a weighing station where they are weighed, and the postage corresponding to their particular weight is computed. The determined postage value is used to continuously reset a postage meter which imprints the required postage upon each envelope as it arrives at a metering station. The actuator banks of the meter are controlled by stepper motors. The metering and weighing functions of the system are synchronized such that the postage meter will imprint the proper postage upon each piece of mail, despite the fact that several envelopes may be simultaneously in transit along the feed path. Overweight pieces of mail are rejected from the feed path prior to their reaching the postage meter station. Metered and overweight pieces of mail are separately stacked.
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Pitney-Bowes Inc.
Rader Ralph T.
Salzman Robert S.
Scribner Albert W.
Soltow, Jr. William D.
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