Postage printing apparatus having a movable print head and a hol

Details Postage printing apparatus having a movable print head and a hol Postage printing apparatus having a movable print head and a hol

1983-03-09

1985-01-08

Coughenour, Clyde I.

Printing

Selective or progressive

Mail-box machines

101 9305, 340365VL, 400489, 400124, B41F 1100, B41F 1336

Patent

active

044921586

ABSTRACT:
A postage meter printing apparatus for applying postage indicia to a mailpiece having a cyclically operating drum for feeding the mailpiece through the postage meter, the periphery of the drum having an aperture therein. The drum means is supported for rotation by a non-rotating shaft. Structure is provided for maintaining the mailpiece against the drum as the mailpiece is fed by the drum, for cycling the drum. A print head located internal to the drum has a printing position and non-printing position. The print head is automatically placed adjacent the mailpiece through the aperture in the drum to its printing position when the aperture is between the print head and mailpiece. Structure is provided to activate the print head hwen it is in its printing position. In one form of the invention the shaft means provides a passageway for electrical wires and cooling air.

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patent: 3869986 (1975-03-01), Hubbard
patent: 4373823 (1983-02-01), Albrile
patent: 4399750 (1983-08-01), O'Brien

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