Mail singulation system
AssigneeRCA Corporation
InventorRoss M. Carrell
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Abstract
A singulation system for receiving unsingulated mail at a singulation station and for passing to an output station singulated mail. The singulation system includes a camera for viewing the unsingulated mail at the output edge of the singulation station for determining a profile of the top piece of unsingulated mail and a positionable lip at the output edge of the singulation station responsive to the signal indicating the profile for becoming shaped to the profile so that the upper piece of unsingulated mail can be passed over the lip to an output station.
Claims9
A mail singulation system including a singulation station having an output edge, means for inputting unsingulated mail into said singulation station and means for carrying singulated mail from said output edge of said singulation station, comprising in combination:
- first means for viewing said unsingulated mail in said singulation station at said output edge for producing a signal indicative of the profile of a single piece of said unsingulated mail as viewed from said output edge;
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- an adjustable lip positioned at said output edge of said singulation station;
- said lip including second means responsive to said signal from said first means for moving said lip to a shape corresponding to the shape of said single piece of mail.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.