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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 1993
Filed:
Dec. 21, 1993
Robert J Edwards, Ridgefield, CT (US);
Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
In a document collating and stuffing apparatus wherein documents are collated along a longitudinally extending transport deck having an upstream end and a downstream end, the documents being fed from a plurality of feeding stations serially positioned above the transport deck, and at least one of the feeding stations including a platform mounted thereto, an improvement to the feeding station comprising structure for adjustably positioning the platform at one of a raised position and a lowered position, the raised position causing the feed station to feed the documents directly to the transport deck before a next upstream collation is transported on top of the fed document by pusher structure, and the lowered position causing the platform to support documents fed thereto until the next upstream collation is transported along the transport deck under the platform by the pusher structure at which time the document is transported on top of the collation by the pusher structure.