Front end feeder for mail handling machine
CA 2004504 C · Owner: Pitney Bowes Inc. · Inventors: Holbrook Russell W.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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The front feeder for a high speed machine for handling mixed mail, including a nudger drive assembly far advancing the mail pieces while maintaining registration and for fluffing a stack of mail contributing to preshingling of the mail as it is advanced downstream, angled decks and a back prop for a guideless hopper region, a tamper subsystem for maintaining registration of flapped envelopes and structure, configured to guide one envelope flaps along a slot for downstream sealing purposes.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed December 4, 1989 and granted February 15, 2000. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 4, 2009.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by December 4, 2011.
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