Postage meter drive system
CA 1302157 C · Owner: Pitney Bowes Inc. · Inventors: Miller, Carl A.; Sloan, Richard A. Jr.
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The postage meter includes a gear in driving communication with a print drum and a shutter bar receivable in an aperture of the gear. The shutter bar has a release position enabling the gear to cause driving of the print drum. The gear aperture is sized to permit a predetermined amount of gear rotation prior to encountering the then resident shutter bar. A control means is included for simultaneously actuating the gear drive means and the shutter from the aperture resident position upon initiation of a postage meter print cycle. Should the shutter bar be unable to be fully withdrawn from the gear aperture within the predetermined amount means are, provided for causing reverse rotation of …
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- Granted June 2, 1992. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended June 2, 2009.
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