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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 1985
Filed:
Jul. 01, 1982
John M Gomes, Bridgeport, CT (US);
Peter N Piotroski, New Canaan, CT (US);
Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A method and associate apparatus for providing a universal feeder interface circuit for a multi-station document inserter having a plurality of document feeder stations or modules and a central processor which stores a supervisory program is provided. Each interface circuit has a unique address and a distributed processor which stores feeder programs containing instructions for operating a variety of different types of feeders. The interface circuit, in response to address and command signals received from the central processor provides operating instructions from the programs stored in the distributed processor to its feeder station to operate the feeders in a manner pre-selected by the user.