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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 1993
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Mark A Scribe, Southbury, CT (US);
Assignee:
Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364478 ; 355308 ; 271-81 ; 271265 ;
Abstract
A document feeding system and method, such as an inserting apparatus and method, wherein marks read from control document or other documents are employed to control the operation of the system. The data read from the documents is stored in a buffer, and the direction of read-out of the buffer may be changed, for example under operator control, in order to adapt the system to control by a plurality of formats of the control marks.