Mailing machine including a process for selectively moistening envelopes fed thereto
CA 2081501 A1 · Owner: Pitney Bowes Inc. · Inventors: Schoonmaker, Richard P.; Nobile, John R.
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In a mailing machine base including structure for feeding an envelope, having a body and a flap in a, downstream path of travel, and including structure for deflecting the flap, a process for selectively guiding an envelope into and out of engagement with the flap deflecting structure, the process comprising the steps of providing a, baffle upstream from the flap deflecting structure providing electromechanical structure for moving the baffle providing a microprocessor for controlling the baffle moving structure, providing a resettable timer having a predetermined time out time interval, operating the baffle moving structure to move the baffle into the path of travel for guiding an envelope …
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- Filed October 27, 1992. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 27, 2012.
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