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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 1992
Filed:
May. 29, 1991
Winston A Orsinger, Nazareth, PA (US);
Richard B Hawkes, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Eric A Belec, Kempton, PA (US);
James S Lee, Jr, Phillipsburg, NJ (US);
Harry C Noll, Jr, Whitehall, PA (US);
David P Nyffenegger, Bethlehem, PA (US);
George Fallos, Easton, PA (US);
Bell & Howell Phillipsburg Co., Skokie, IL (US);
Abstract
An inserter with collation tracking comprises a programmable computer, means for tracking handled items including individual tracking and collation tracking, sensing means for sensing individual items in different locations, as well as for sensing defective, multiple or missing items, corrective action means, and, means for updating tracking information in correspondence with corrective action taken. The inserter performs corrective action in the form of the rejection and diversion of defective items. Further, the inserter provides for complementarily associating envelopes with particular inserts intended for insertion thereinto, for collation tracking of such complementarily-associated items, and for the diversion of such associated items if at least one of the associated items has been stigmatized as defective.