Envelope pressure plate for mailing machine

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A mailing machine for conveying envelopes seriatim along a feed path toward a postage meter operatively connected to said mailing machine. The mailing machine includes a housing frame, a deck secured to the frame for supporting the envelopes, the deck having a longitudinal slot therein, a lower, driven, feed roller rotatably mounted on the frame, and an electro-mechanical tripper mounted on the frame for actuating the postage meter the tripper, projecting upwardly through the deck slot adjacent and downstream of the lower feed roller. The mailing machine further includes a first shaft rotatably mounted on the frame perpendicular to the feed path, a second pivotable, shaft flexibly coupled …