Printing – Selective or progressive – Mail-box machines
Patent
1983-03-09
1985-01-08
Coughenour, Clyde I.
Printing
Selective or progressive
Mail-box machines
101332, 400208, 4001961, B41F 1100, B41J 3200
Patent
active
044921578
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 has an aperture therein. Structure is provided to maintain the mailpiece against the drum as the mailpiece is fed by the drum and to cycle 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 means and mailpiece. The inked ribbon is contained in a replaceable cartridge which is mounted into and rotates with the drum. Structure is provided to activate the print head means when it is in its printing position.
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patent: 785709 (1905-03-01), Burridge
patent: 1274831 (1918-08-01), Woodward
patent: 2152204 (1939-03-01), Moore
patent: 2586905 (1952-02-01), Bates
patent: 2982204 (1961-05-01), Roehm
patent: 3869986 (1975-03-01), Hubbard
patent: 4373823 (1983-02-01), Albrile
Coughenour Clyde I.
Pitney Bowes Inc.
Sawyer, Jr. Joseph A.
Scribner Albert W.
Soltow, Jr. William D.
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