Jogger system having a mail compression capability therein
AssigneePitney Bowes Inc.
InventorsDenis J. Stemmle, Eric A. Belec, Robert J. Allen, Michael M. Farrell, Jeffrey A. Gateman, Thomas M. Lyga, Edward C. Miller, John F. Zajac
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Abstract
A method for expelling air out of mailpieces includes the steps of creating a stack of the mailpieces; cutting an opening in at least some of the mailpieces; jogging the stack of mailpieces; and subjecting the stack of mailpieces to at least one compression/decompression cycle during the jogging step thereby expelling air out of the at least some of the mailpieces through their corresponding openings. A jogger system incorporates the structure for accomplishing the method.
Claims20
A method for expelling air out of mailpieces comprising the steps of:
- creating a stack of the mailpieces;
- cutting an opening in at least some of the mailpieces;
- jogging the stack of mailpieces;
- and
- subjecting the stack of mailpieces to at least one compression/decompression cycle during the jogging step thereby expelling air out of the at least some of the mailpieces through their corresponding openings.
A jogger system for a stack of mailpieces, the jogger system comprising:
- a jogger tray within which the stack of mailpieces is positioned;
- a jogger device that jogs the jogger tray;
- and
- means for subjecting the stack of mailpieces to a compression/decompression cycle, the subjecting means disposed within the jogger tray.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.