Modular mailing machine
CA 1330409 C · Owner: Pitney Bowes Inc. · Inventors: Durst, Robert T. Jr.; Dolan, Donald T.; Hubbard, David W.
Overview
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A mailing machine comprised of a plurality of modules each of the modules a particular process function on a delivered envelope. The modules are arranged with in a single process station. The comprising modules include a scale module having means for weighing a envelope a, transport module having means for positioning the envelope in the process station and ejecting the envelope from the process station, a meter module having printing means for imprinting an indicia on the envelope, a platen module having means for causing the envelope to contact the printing means of the meter module, and a inking module having means for causing printing ink to be deposited on the printing means of the …
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- Granted June 28, 1994. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended June 28, 2011.
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