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US 4,358,017 AGranted
Mail direction system
AssigneeBell & Howell Company
InventorRolf B. Erikson
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Abstract
An addressee's internal mail is accompanied by a director card having machine readable indicia placed thereon for identifying the given addressee. A carrier, holding the addressee's mail and director card is passed under an optical character reader which passes a signal to look-up table apparatus for generating a mail stop signal corresponding to the addressee. Mail director apparatus is then operative in response to the mail stop signal to direct each piece of mail to the desired addressee.
Claims11
A mail direction system comprising:
- a director card having indicia-receiving means thereon for receiving machine readable indicia identifying a given addressee;
- carrier means for holding said director card and associated mail for said addressee;
- character recognition means for reading said machine readable indicia and generating indicia signals representing said indicia;
- means including look-up table means for receiving said indicia signals and generating mail stop signals corresponding to said indicia signals;
- and,
- directing means operative in response to said mail stop signals for directing said carrier and the mail therein to the mail stop associated with said addressee.
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