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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 1979
Filed:
Jan. 05, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:
Dale H Jackson, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Assignee:
Harris Corporation, Cleveland, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
209-33 ; 209551 ; 209900 ; 93 9 / ; 270 58 ; 271213 ;
Abstract
Articles to be mailed under bulk mail rates are stacked in accordance with their zip code. Articles with identical zip codes are bundled in numbers according to postal regulation minimum and maximum limits. When the number of articles in a zip code group is less than the postal minimum for a bundle, the zip code group is diverted for special handling. The system is capable of identifying consecutive zip code groups of articles each of which are under the postal minimum for a stack and bundling these together in the main stream as long as together the consecutive groups are over the minimum.