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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1999
Michael Shea, Litchfield, CT (US);
Eugene Pritchard, Brookfield, CT (US);
William G. Hart, Jr., Sandy Hook, CT (US);
Paul Mayer, Middlebury, CT (US);
Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A method for controlling an inserter system having a chassis for assembling mailpieces, the chassis operating cyclically with successive accumulations advancing at the end of each cycle. The inserter system further includes a document feeder for feeding accumulations of documents to the chassis, the accumulations containing varying numbers of documents whereby the document feeder is operated at a first speed such that accumulations are available for input to the chassis at varying intervals substantially depending upon the number of documents in corresponding accumulations. And the chassis is operated at a selected speed, which speed is periodically updated in dependence upon the number of documents in the corresponding accumulations in the document feeder.