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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 1992
Filed:
Dec. 30, 1988
Robert Francisco, New Fairfield, CT (US);
Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
In a material processing system comprising a plurality of material processing stations, a base material processing station, and structure directing material to be processed serially through the plurality of stations in a given order to the base station; the improvement wherein each of the plurality of stations and the base station comprises a separate data and control processor, and further comprising a communication loop interconnecting the processors of the plurality of stations in the given order to the processor of the base station and interconnecting the processor of the base station to the processor of the first of the plurality of stations. Each of the processors of the plurality of stations comprises structure for generating an error message concerning a respective station, and structure for passing the error message generated therein to the next succeeding station in the communication loop, wherein each of the processors generates the error message by selecting an appropriate one of a plurality of messages stored in memory locations associated with each the processor. Each of the plurality of messages exists simultaneously in a plurality of spoken languages in the memory locations. The processors include structure for selecting the error messages in one of the languages. The base station includes a display, and the processor of the base station comprises means for displaying the error message received thereby on the display.