Mailing machine
CA 1319902 C · Owner: Dolan, Donald T. · Inventors: Dolan, Donald T.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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The input station of a mailing machine includes an inclined tray for feeding vertically extending mail pieces. The thickness of the mail pieces is sensed, and a separator is responsive to sensed thickness to control the feed of the lowest mail piece on the tray to a weighing device. The mail pieces are transported vertically upwardly from the weighing device to an upper roll, with the bottoms of the mail pieces being carried over the roll to start their descent to an output stacker. A postage meter may be provided at the weighing station, or adjacent the top roll. A flap moistener may be provided upstream of the top roll and the, flaps may be sealed adjacent the top roll.
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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 July 6, 1993. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended July 6, 2010.
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