Patents Assigned to Pitney Bowes Limited, The Pinnacles
  • Accumulator for sheet handling apparatus
    Publication number: 20060151933
    Abstract: A sheet feeder for feeding sheets one-at-a-time along a path is disclosed having: means for storing a plurality of sheets; a feeder/separator comprising feeding means for engaging the sheets and feeding them from the means for storing and a separator for engaging sheets fed by the feeding means to thereby feed single ones of the sheets one-at-a-time along the path whilst remaining sheets not being fed along the path are halted by the separator; and a clearance mechanism for engaging said remaining sheets and removing them from the separator region in a sheet clearance process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2005
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Applicant: Pitney Bowes Limited, The Pinnacles
    Inventors: Geoffrey Farmer, Peter Watson
  • Feed of sheet material in a feeder/separator
    Publication number: 20060151936
    Abstract: A sheet feeder for feeding sheets one-at-a-time along a path is disclosed having: means for storing a plurality of sheets; a feeder/separator comprising feeding means for engaging the sheets and feeding them from the means for storing and a separator for engaging sheets fed by the feeding means to thereby feed single ones of the sheets one-at-a-time along the path whilst remaining sheets not being fed along the path are halted by the separator; and a clearance mechanism for engaging said remaining sheets and removing them from the separator region in a sheet clearance process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2005
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Applicant: Pitney Bowes Limited, The Pinnacles
    Inventors: Christopher Brown, Nicholas Clarke, Martyn House, Paul Jeeves