Single-motor setting and printing postage meter

Details Single-motor setting and printing postage meter Single-motor setting and printing postage meter

1995-04-14

1997-08-05

Masih, Karen

Electricity: motive power systems

Motor-reversing

318 10, 318 15, 101 71, 101 84, 101 9317, H02P 100

Patent

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056546149

ABSTRACT:
A self-contained postage meter does not have a base separable from a main body. The single secure housing contains everything that would be in the main body of a prior art postage meter and everything that would be in a prior art meter base. Despite containing all these things, the single secure housing is small enough and light enough in weight to permit the entire meter to be readily transported to the post office for inspection or resetting. Within the single secure housing are the print rotor with value wheels, all the mechanisms for setting the print wheels, the descending and/or ascending register and associated microprocessor, and all the mechanisms for transport of the mail piece through the meter. Only a handful of controlled elements are required, chiefly a single inexpensive DC motor for franking and value wheel setting and a few electromagnets. Two one-way clutches are used so that rotation of the motor in one direction accomplishes a setting cycle for the value wheels and rotation of the motor in the other direction accomplishes a printing (franking) cycle.

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