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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 1995
Filed:
Jul. 18, 1994
Joseph Guiles, Prospect, CT (US);
Irena Makarchuk, Fairfield, CT (US);
Scott W Martin, Seymour, CT (US);
James Morabito, Bethel, CT (US);
William D Toth, Milford, CT (US);
Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and a method for merging vertically oriented documents with horizontally oriented documents. The apparatus includes: a document assembler for receiving vertically oriented documents, the document assembler having a pair of parallel paper paths, wherein each of the paper paths includes a device for transporting the vertically oriented documents and a device for stopping and a device for aligning the vertically oriented documents; a device located beneath the document assembler for re-orienting the documents from the document assembler in a vertical orientation to a horizontal orientation; and a horizontal transport located beneath the re-orienting device for feeding horizontally oriented documents toward the re-oriented documents emerging from the re-orienting device, whereby the horizontally oriented documents are merged with the re-oriented documents from the document assembler.