Neopost Technologies

Printed Products Equipment, Ltd.

Pfe International Limited

Christopher Hugh Williams

A system for capturing an image of an optical code located at a region of interest in a document, the system comprising: a support for supporting the document; a source of light arranged to illuminate the document; a mount for supporting an imaging device at a position spaced from the document; a trigger for activating the imaging device to capture an image of the region of interest; and a moving device for automatically moving the mount and operating the trigger in dependence upon at least one coordinate identifying the region of interest, the coordinate being contained in a label stored in document parameters.

Optical code reader

A method for controlling a servomotor for driving a movable part of a machine, the method comprising: determining the coordinates of an acceleration and of a deceleration curve for each stage of a cycle of operation to move said part; determining the maximum number of stages required to complete said cycle; initiating the acceleration curve for the first stage of the cycle of operation; and dynamically correcting the cycle of operation, at at least one intermediate point in the cycle, to initiate the deceleration curve appropriate to the stage, at a predetermined decision point, if production line parameters require a change to the operation cycle.

Servomotor speed control

A method of attaching a pawl to a region of a surface of a conveyor belt comprising pre-stressing the surface region and fixing the pawl to the surface region while it is in the pre-stressed state.

Conveyor belt

A collating device for sheet material comprises a collating station (,) having a pair of guide members (,) for receiving sheets to be collated through an opening (,) therebetween, first conveyor means (,) for conveying sheets consecutively into the collating station and second conveyor means (,) for conveying a collated stack of sheets out of the collating station, support means (,) biased towards a position for supporting sheets in the collating station away from the second conveyor means, and an actuator member (,) movable to urge a collated stack of sheets towards the second conveyor means against the bias of the support means.

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Essex, United Kingdom

Christopher Hugh Williams