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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2006
Alan Hascup, Bloomingdale, NJ (US);
Alan Hascup, Bloomingdale, NJ (US);
Myron Corp., Maywood, NJ (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for personalizing and inserting articles for mass distribution, includes an envelope hopper for holding a plurality of envelopes which each carry a unique machine readable code associated with a unique individual. An article hopper holds a plurality of articles for the individuals. A code scanner reads the codes and an envelope feeder moves one envelope at a time to the scanner. The envelopes are conveyed from the scanner in sequence to an inserting station and a printer reacting to the scanner prints personal information on the articles, each corresponding the an individual for whom a code has been read by the scanner. The printed articles are then feed in the same sequence to the inserting station and are inserted into a corresponding envelope.