Document transporter for use in forwarding system
First Claim
1. A transporter system including means for handling documents, each having indicia means thereon, and more particularly envelopes of various sizes, said document handling means including a combination viewing and transport module, said module including means for accepting a plurality of documents from a feeding means, means for moving said documents in a sequential fashion through a plurality of stations wherein said documents are substantially simultaneously visible to an operator controlling the system, means for retaining a document at a particular station for a time interval adequate for the operator to react to the indicia means on the document, and means for activating the release of said retaining means, said plurality of stations including a previewing station, a viewing station, a reviewing station, and a buffering station, said document handling means further including electronic storage means, and means for inputing at least a portion of the indicia means visible on said document from the viewing station into said electronic storage means, whereby said document is released to said reviewing station where said storage means compares the portion of the indicia means with other information available in said storage means and provides a retrieval of at least one piece of information for use in correction of the indicia means on said document, and if there is more than one piece of information which fits the parameters of the portion of the indicia means input, then the operator is supplied with said multiple information for choosing the correct information, the operator thereby releasing said document from said reviewing station and moving same to said buffering station.
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Abstract
This invention relates in general to the handling of mail and, in particular, to an improved document transporter for use in a forwarding address system for mail sorting machines.
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- 1. A transporter system including means for handling documents, each having indicia means thereon, and more particularly envelopes of various sizes, said document handling means including a combination viewing and transport module, said module including means for accepting a plurality of documents from a feeding means, means for moving said documents in a sequential fashion through a plurality of stations wherein said documents are substantially simultaneously visible to an operator controlling the system, means for retaining a document at a particular station for a time interval adequate for the operator to react to the indicia means on the document, and means for activating the release of said retaining means, said plurality of stations including a previewing station, a viewing station, a reviewing station, and a buffering station, said document handling means further including electronic storage means, and means for inputing at least a portion of the indicia means visible on said document from the viewing station into said electronic storage means, whereby said document is released to said reviewing station where said storage means compares the portion of the indicia means with other information available in said storage means and provides a retrieval of at least one piece of information for use in correction of the indicia means on said document, and if there is more than one piece of information which fits the parameters of the portion of the indicia means input, then the operator is supplied with said multiple information for choosing the correct information, the operator thereby releasing said document from said reviewing station and moving same to said buffering station.
- 12. A document transporter system for accepting serially disposed end to end individual documents one at a time from a document feed system and sequentially moving each document to a plurality of stations for substantially simultaneous observation by an operator, each document having indicia means thereon, said transporter system comprising means for accepting a document from a document feed system, means for moving a plurality of documents in a sequential fashion through said plurality of stations, wherein said plurality of stations includes means for previewing a first document, means for substantially simultaneously viewing a second document, and means for substantially simultaneously reviewing a third document, said transporter system further comprising means for retaining a document at a particular station for a time interval adequate for the operator to react to the indicia means on the document, and means for activating the release of said retaining means to advance said document to a further station.
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