Postal code envelope printer
CA 1234314 A · Owner: Heilig, Lewis A. · Inventors: Heilig, Lewis A.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A machine printer for marking a machine readable code on envelopes and the like allows house holders and small businesses to print the postal precode on envelopes so they can be read by a machine reader rather than a keypunch operator. The printer has an adjustable jig to hold one end of an envelope the jig has two portions which join together in sliding relationship for different sized envelopes. Each portion has a corner slot to position an envelope, and at least one of the portions has a stencil for producing a mark on an envelope the, stencil located a fixed distance from one corner of the envelope.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Granted March 22, 1988. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended March 22, 2005.
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