Printing – Selective or progressive – Rotary machines
Patent
1994-01-11
1995-02-21
Burr, Edgar S.
Printing
Selective or progressive
Rotary machines
400621, 400613, 101227, 235101, 396136, B41L 4746
Patent
active
053905946
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a tape feeding, cutting and ejecting apparatus for a mailing machine which has a feed deck for feeding envelopes therealong and a postage meter for printing postage indicia on successive envelopes as they are fed along the feed deck. The tape feeding, cutting and ejecting apparatus is mounted in the mailing machine above the feed deck and adjacent to the postage meter on the side thereof opposite to the direction of the feed of envelopes for feeding successive finite lengths of tape to the postage meter for printing of postage indicia on a portion thereof and for cutting and ejecting the printed portion of the finite lengths of tape from the mailing machine. The apparatus includes a tape holding assembly and means for pivotally mounting the tape holding assembly for movement between a normal operating position and an operator accessible position to facilitate loading and threading of a fresh roll of tape. The apparatus also includes a sensing means for sensing when the tape holding assembly is not in the normal operating position and also when the tape supply is exhausted.
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Nobile John R.
Salancy William A.
Bennett Christopher A.
Burr Edgar S.
Pitchenik David E.
Pitney Bowes Inc.
Scolnick Melvin J.
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