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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2000
Filed:
May. 05, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard F Stengl, Wolcott, CT (US);
Joseph F Zuzick, Jr, Naugatuck, CT (US);
Edward M Ifkovits, New Fairfield, CT (US);
Assignee:
Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
271187 ; 271189 ; 271225 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides an apparatus and method for receiving at least one sheet from a first upstream direction and feeding the at least one sheet in either a second mainstream direction or a third disposal direction. Conventionally, this invention may be used to reorient a sheet, or an accumulation of sheets, from landscape to portrait or vice versa, and to dispose of an incorrect accumulation of sheets into an out-sort station.