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Insertion machine with postage categorization and selective merchandising
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Inventors: Baggarly, Brad A.; Scullion, Christopher K.;
Assignee: Bell & Howell Phillipsburg Co. (Skokie, IL)
Primary Examiner: Lall; Parshotam S.
Assistant Examiner: Cosimano; Edward R.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Griffin Branigan & Butler
In an insertion machine a track 20 moves groups of items past feed station 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, during respective machine cycles. The feed stations selectively feed items onto the tracks 20 for inclusion with a group of items and eventual stuffing into an envelope. A master control item 46 fed from station 31 for each group has indicia 50 thereon which provides an indication from which of the feed stations items can be fed. In order for data processor 102 to calculate the amount of postage appropriate for the stuffed envelope, an operator uses a keyboard and display 110 to input predetermined per item weight values for items held at select stations. A data processor 102 uses the predetermined values indicative of the per item weight of items held in the stations to obtain a calculated total weight for each group of items. Some the feed stations contain optional items which are to be selectively included with a group of items if the data processor 102 determines that the inclusion does not increase the postage amount for the group. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG.
1 shows two parallel feed tracks or conveyors 20 and 22 which run parallel to one another in the direction of respective arrows 24 and 26.
The first conveyor 20 travels past nine consecutive insertion stations 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, and 39.
In the embodiment shown, conveyors 20 and 22 are intermittently driven by a chain and sprocket arrangement so that the conveyors travel generally in the direction shown by the respective arrows 24 and 26.
That is, during successive machine cycles a document on conveyor 20 travels in a leftward direction so that during the machine cycle MC2 the document is proximate the station 32; in the machine cycle MC3 the document is proximate the station 33, and so forth.
An envelope station 42 is positioned above and alongside conveyor 22 for discharging envelopes from a hopper of station 42 onto the conveyor 22.
The conveyor 22 is indexed and station 42 is operated in timed relationship with the conveyor 20 so that, if a given customer's master control document is deposited onto conveyor 20 at MC0, that customer's envelope will be deposited onto conveyor 22 at about MC8.
At MC9 the customer's envelope is opened at an envelope flap opening station generally pointed to by arrow 43.
At MC10 the customer's documents, which have been cumulatively piled on top of one another as the documents travel down the conveyor 20, are stuffed into the opened envelope at a stuffing station (generally pointed to by arrow 44).
While the structural and operational details of the envelope flap opening station and the envelope stuffing station are not specifically discussed herein, the same are understandable by the man skilled in the art, especially in view of the aforementioned Williams patent.
The first station (station 31) comprises a fast feeder for feeding one or more documents (also referred to as "sheets") per machine cycle onto the conveyor 20.
A counter photocell 47 positioned proximate the first station 31 counts the number of documents fed from the fast feeder for each machine cycle
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