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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2010
Anthony E. Yap, Danbury, CT (US);
Richard F. Stengl, Watertown, CT (US);
Boris Rozenfeld, New Milford, CT (US);
Steven J. Dacunha, West Hartford, CT (US);
Anthony E. Yap, Danbury, CT (US);
Richard F. Stengl, Watertown, CT (US);
Boris Rozenfeld, New Milford, CT (US);
Steven J. DaCunha, West Hartford, CT (US);
Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A system for conveying mailpieces along a conveyance path and singulating a mailpiece from a stack of mailpieces along the conveyance path. The system includes a first conveyance for conveying mailpieces at a variable velocity and a second conveyance, downstream of the first conveyance, for conveying mailpieces at a constant velocity along the conveyance path. A series of optical sensors extends from the first to the second conveyance and is operative to issue a gap signal indicative of the relative spacing between sequential mailpieces along the conveyance path. A processor is responsive to the gap signal and is operative to control the first conveyance to decrease the relative spacing between sequential mailpieces when the gap signal exceeds a threshold value.