Envelope flap sealing device
AssigneePitney Bowes Inc.
InventorGerman Gavronsky
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Abstract
An envelope flap sealing device in a mailing machine, including a moistener separator blade, a moistening brush attached to and located downstream of the separator blade, at least one pair of feed rollers for transporting envelopes past the moistening brush, a pivotable, deflecting baffle situated intermediate the feed rollers and the separator blade, and a cam operatively connected to the deflecting baffle for pivoting the baffle about its downstream end whereby the upstream end of the baffle is translatable between a raised position and a flat position, wherein the raised position guides an envelope flap under the moistening brush to thereby seal the flap and the flat position causes the envelope flap to pass over the moistening brush and not be sealed.
Claims6
In a mailing machine, an envelope flap sealing device, comprising:
- a moistener separator blade;
- a moistening brush attached to and located downstream of said separator blade;
- at least one pair of feed rollers for transporting envelopes past said moistening brush;
- a pivotable, deflecting baffle situated intermediate said feed rollers and said separator blade;
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- a selector knob having a camming surface, said knob being operatively connected to said deflecting baffle for pivoting said baffle about its downstream end whereby the upstream end of said baffle is translatable between a raised position and a flat position, wherein the raised position guides an envelope flap under said moistening brush to thereby seal said flap and the flat position causes said envelope flap to pass over said moistening brush and not be sealed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.