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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 1989
Filed:
Aug. 28, 1987
Flavio Manduley, Woodbury, CT (US);
Norman R Lilly, Stratford, CT (US);
Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A mailer for the delivery of the replacement units and the return of replaced units. Preferably the units include electronic components such as PROM's mounted on printed circuit boards. A replacement unit is held within the mailer by a restraint in a position such that an address for a customer to whom the replacement unit is to be delivered affixed to the replacement unit is visible through a window in the mailer. Insertion of a replaced unit into the mailer causes the restraint to release the replacement unit and secure the replaced unit in such a position that no address is visible through the window. Accordingly, the mailer would be returned to the vendor whose address is imprinted on the mailer with no need for further effort on the part of the customer. In one embodiment of the disclosed invention, where the units are PROM modules mounted on printed circuit boards, when the replaced unit is partially inserted into the mailer the mailer may then be used as an extraction tool to remove the replaced unit from an edge connector, and when the replaced unit is fully inserted into the mailer the mailer maybe used as an insertion tool to insert the replacement unit into the edge connector.