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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2000
Linda A. Howard, Brookfield, CT (US);
Edward M. Ifkovits, New Fairfield, CT (US);
Eric J. Janatka, Danbury, CT (US);
Shahzad H. Malick, Fairfield, CT (US);
Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A system and corresponding method for accumulating sheets as part of the operation of a mailing system and for conveying the sheets along a normal feed path, and including a mis-scan diverter for diverting sheets that have been mis-scanned from a normal feed path to a first alternate path, and a selective diverter for diverting selective document sets from the normal feed path to a second alternate path. In some applications, the selective diverter includes a pivot table by-pass guide positioned according to commands received from a selective controller so as to selectively divert a sheet. Such a selective diverter uses a nip formed at the distal end of the pivot table by-pass guide by a continuously running cooperating roller and a surface of the pivot table by-pass guide, so that a sheet entering the nip so formed is diverted to the second alternate path. In some applications, the mis-scan diverter includes a diverting chute assembly that is made to rise up into the feed path so that a sheet enters the diverting chute assembly and is thereby provided to the first alternate path, the diverting chute assembly being raised and lowered under the command of a mis-scan controller.