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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 1987
Filed:
Jan. 18, 1985
Edilberto I Salazar, Brookfield, CT (US);
Wallace Kirschner, Trumbull, CT (US);
Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
Sheet handling apparatus is provided which includes structure for feeding a sheet in a predetermined path of travel, for sensing the sheet in the path of travel and providing at least one sensing signal indicative thereof, for printing postage indicia on the sheet, and for controlling the printing structure. The sensing structure is coupled to the controlling structure, which includes a microcomputer adapted to be energized from a local source of supply of power. The microcomputer is responsive to the at least one sensing signal for providing a time delay before commencement of operation of the printing structure to cause the postage indicia to be printed on the sheet a predetermined marginal distance from a reference edge of the sheet. The controlling structure includes a keyboard coupled to the microcomputer. The keyboard includes at least one key selectively operable for generating at least one key signal representative of a desired change in the marginal distance. The microcomputer is responsive to the key signal for providing an adjusted time delay before commencement of operation of the printing structure to cause the postage indicia to be printed on the sheet a changed marginal distance from the reference edge of the sheet, the changed marginal distance being the predetermined distance by the desired change in marginal distance. And the microcomputer includes a nonvolatile memory for storing therein an amount representative of the desired change in marginal distance.