Abstract: An improvement in an electrophotocopying machine utilizing a two component developer material and having a reciprocating carriage for carrying an original document across the illuminating means, an endless, reusable photoconductor, the photoconductor rotating through two cycles for each copy produced of an original document and having a seam extending across the width thereof and a total length less than the length of the document to be imaged and the length required for the physical location of all the photocopying process elements other than the transfer apparatus, a corona device for discharging electrical charge that may remain on the photoconductor after the developed image has been transferred from the photoconductor, a magnetic brush developing device for developing the latent image on the photoconductor and removing untransferred developer material from the photoconductor, and a common source of internally generated voltage for both the discharging corona and the magnetic brush developing device bias

Abstract: A postal meter includes a postal meter assembly adapted to be driven from a base, for in turn driving the drum of a settable printing mechanism. The meter has an electronic accounting system with a register, and means setting the register during the printing cycle. A mechanical latch is positioned to stop rotation of the gear assembly at a home position if an electronic accounting has not occurred during the previous printing cycle. The gear assembly further includes a cam surface for driving the mechanical latch to this position following initiation of a printing cycle. A detent has a tooth selectively engageable with a pair of notches on the lever corresponding to the two lever positions, the detent being displaced in one case by a cam surface of the gear assembly and in the second case by a lever system responsive to the operation of the accounting system.