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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 1990
Filed:
Dec. 30, 1988
Robert Francisco, New Fairfield, CT (US);
Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A material processing system comprising a plurality of material processing stations, and means for transporting articles to be processed serially through the processing stations in a given order; the improvement wherein each of the processing stations comprises a data and control processing system, and further comprising a communication path interconnecting each the data and control processing system with the data and control processing system of the next preceding and next succeeding material processing station in the given order; each data and control processing system comprising means for controlling material processing at the respective station, means for signaling the data and control processing system of the next previous station that the respective station is ready to receive material to be processed therefrom, and means for directing data to the data control and processing system of the next succeeding station concerning material processing steps that have been taken in the respective station on material to be passed to the next succeeding station as well as data it may have received from the data and control processing system of the next previous station concerning material processing steps that had previously been taken on the material to be passed to the next succeeding station.