Process for interconnecting an actuator and a postage meter
AssigneePitney Bowes Inc.
InventorsKeith E. Schubert, David B. Albright, Charles M. Weimer, Philip Pollak, Jr.
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Abstract
A process for interconnecting a postage meter and apparatus for operating the postage meter; wherein the postage meter includes a lever which is positionable in a plurality of postage value selecting positions, and the apparatus includes a member for positioning the postage meter lever. The process comprises the steps of fixing the spatial relationship between the postage meter and meter operating apparatus, and then fixing the spatial relationship between the postage meter lever and lever positioning member.
Claims17
A process for interconnecting a postage meter and apparatus for operating said postage meter, wherein said postage meter includes a lever which is positionable in a plurality of postage value selecting positions, said apparatus includes means for positioning said postage meter lever, and said lever positioning means includes a member which is positionable in a plurality of predetermined positions respectively corresponding on a one for one basis with one of the lever's predetermined postage value selecting positions, said process comprising the steps of:
- a. fixing the spatial relationship between the postage meter and meter operating apparatus;
- b. fixing the spatial relationship between the postage meter lever and lever positioning means;
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- c. engaging said postage meter lever and lever positioning member.
A process for mounting an actuator in operating relationship with respect to a postage meter, wherein said postage meter includes first reference means and a movable potage value selecting lever, and wherein said actuator includes second reference means and means for positioning said postage value selecting lever, said process comprising:
- a. positioning with respect to each other said first and second reference means;
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- b. relatively positioning with respect to each other said postage meter lever and said means for moving said postage meter lever.
Apparatus for interconnecting a postage meter and means for operating the postage meter, wherein said postage meter includes a lever which is positionable in a plurality of postage value selecting positions, and said meter operating means includes means for positioning said postage meter lever, said apparatus comprising:
- a. means for adjusting the spatial relationship between said postage meter and said meter operating means, and
- b. means for fixing the spatial relationship between said postage meter lever and said lever positioning means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.