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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2002
Scott C DiNapoli, Wolcott, CT (US);
Jean S Leandre, Spring Valley, NY (US);
Richard F Stengl, Wolcott, CT (US);
Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
An enclosure feeder system ( ) and corresponding method for use in combining collations in a sequence of collations with a given number of respective corresponding specific enclosures, the enclosures for each successive collation ordinarily being separator by a divider indicator, the enclosure feeder system ( ) including: an enclosure feeder ( ) for feeding the enclosures, and a supervisory controller ( ) for providing to the enclosure feeder ( ) a dynamic over-count number, corresponding to a specific collation, equal to one more than the expected number of enclosures for the collation, with the enclosure feeder ( ) implemented so as to continue feeding enclosures for a collation until either encountering a divider indicator or until the number of enclosures actually fed is equal to the expected number of enclosures for the collation.