Package making – With cover-adjunct application or formation – By printing
Patent
1992-10-29
1994-10-18
Johnson, Linda B.
Package making
With cover-adjunct application or formation
By printing
531312, 53553, B65B 1150, B65B 6100
Patent
active
053556550
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a system which comprises apparatus for transmitting messages to receiving apparatus. More specifically, the invention relates to such a system in which the receiving apparatus have a closed casing for collecting printed sheets into a bundle and in which casing enveloping material is available for automatically enveloping the collected bundle of printed sheets containing a printed message.
BACKGROUND ART
It is known to transmit messages from one location to another with the aid of teletechnical auxiliaries, by passing a printed sheet and/or a picture through an apparatus in the first mentioned location and transmitting the information content of the sheet (text, picture) teletechnically to a corresponding, synchronously operating apparatus in the latter location, where the information content is reproduced (printed) on similar sheets. Systems of this kind are referred to as telefacsimile systems in present-day parlance.
In principle, telefacsimile systems can be in operation day and night with on one in continuous attendance, and consequently larger or smaller number of message-containing sheets may collect in the receiving apparatus, it being necessary at a later stage to sort these sheets and deliver them to respective addressees.
In order to avoid uncontrolled distribution of the aforesaid transmitted, printed messages, the receiving apparatus may be provided with a closed casing in which the printed sheets collected in the casing are bundled and in which enveloping material is available for automatically enveloping the thus bundled sheets. By bundling and enveloping each message received by the receiving apparatus, there is obtained in the casing a number of mutually separate dispatches which are immediately ready for dispatch to respective addressees (without needing to be sorted or addressed).
A further development of the aforedescribed system enables persons who have no personal telefacsimile machine to transmit and receive messages, simply and quickly, through central telefacsimile systems, normally a telefacsimile service offered by the general post office or telegraph office. Naturally, persons who have their own telefacsimile system may also be connected to these newer telefacsimile systems and benefit from the higher degree of security (secrecy) that these systems automatically provide.
The characteristic features of one such further development telefacsimile systems are set forth in the following claims.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
The inventive system includes a plurality of receiving apparatus, each including a closed casing in which enveloping material is available. These apparatus are intended to be installed at locations or stations intended for the central collection of enveloped dispatches addressed to addressees in the neighbourhoods of respective collecting stations.
The system also includes a plurality of transmitting apparatus, of which at least some are equipped with payment means which enable payment to be made for the service provided on each transmission occasion, said service including transmission of a message to a selected receiving apparatus, enveloping the message received and printed by the selected apparatus and also the delivery of the printed and enveloped message to the receiving addressee located in the neighbourhood of the selected receiving apparatus.
In order to enable the system to be used by persons who have their own (private) telefacsimile system but who, however, lack payment means of the aforesaid kind, the receiving apparatus are equipped with recording means which record register information concerning the telefacsimile system in questions and the messages transmitted to selected receiving apparatus. This information is later used as the basis on which the transmitted and distributed messages are paid for.
The invention will now be described with reference to an inventive system which comprises a plurality of transmitting and receiving apparatus installed at a plurality of central collecting stations.
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