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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2009
Method and apparatus for processing envelopes containing documents to obtain images of the documents
Michael Sullivan, Florence, NJ (US);
Erick Grasmueck, Voorhees, NJ (US);
David Helmlinger, Mount Laurel, NJ (US);
Robert R Dewitt, Marlton, NJ (US);
George L Hayduchok, Mount Holly, NJ (US);
Michael Sullivan, Florence, NJ (US);
Erick Grasmueck, Voorhees, NJ (US);
David Helmlinger, Mount Laurel, NJ (US);
Robert R DeWitt, Marlton, NJ (US);
George L Hayduchok, Mount Holly, NJ (US);
Opex Corporation, Moorestown, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for processing mail is provided. Mail is placed into an input been having a conveyor that conveys the mail towards a feeder. The feeder serially feeds the envelopes to a cutter that severs the top edge of the envelopes. A transport conveys the envelopes from the top cutter to an extractor. The extractor opens the edge-severed mail and presents the contents of the envelopes to an operator who manually extracts the contents. From the extractor, the operator manually feeds the extracted documents to a document input. From the document input, the documents are fed to a document transport that conveys the documents past an imaging module to obtain image data for the documents before sorting the documents to output bins.