Patents by Inventor William C. Monday

William C. Monday has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5244344
    Abstract: A code break mechanism preferably employed in a stacker apparatus. The stacker apparatus has a support housing, a deck fixably mounted to and supported by the housing, a registration wall fixably mounted to the housing and extending generally perpendicular to the deck. A deflector plate is pivotally mounted in an opening in the registration wall. A rotary solenoid in communication with a linkage train causes the deflector plate to be selectively positionable from a first position coplanar with the registration wall to a second position pivotally displaced from the registration wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1993
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: Terrence M. Doeberl, Ralph K. Rand, Larry S. Payne, Kazutoshi Fujimoto, William C. Monday
  • Patent number: 5137415
    Abstract: A power stacker for collecting delivered articles such as envelopes from a mailing machine is comprised of a support housing having a deck fixably mounted along the housing. A registration wall is fixably mounted to the housing and extending generally perpendicular relative to the deck. A stack wall is slidably mounted to the housing at one end of the deck and has a reclined surface extended generally upwardly from the deck, the stack wall being slidably mounted to the housing such that the stack wall can be horizontally displaced relative to the deck. Support rods are provided for providing article support between the deck and displaced stack wall as well as between the registration and displaced stack wall. Threaded hubs are provided for causing the delivered articles to be collected against the stack wall and assume a generally parallel stacked orientation generally parallel to the reclined surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1992
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: Terrence M. Doeberl, Ralph K. Rand, Larry S. Payne, Kazutoshi Fujimoto, William C. Monday
  • Patent number: 4850583
    Abstract: A device (10) for advancing documents (12) from an input location (14) to an output location (16) along a path includes belts (24, 26) for capturing a document (12) and for temporarily imparting a stiffness to the document that is greater than the inherent document stiffness. Structure (34, 60) is provided for driving belts (24, 26) to move the document (12) from the input location (14) to the output location (16) along the path. A guide (90) is disposed adjacent the belts (24, 26) and along the path for contacting the edges of the document (12) to thereby cause lateral aligning shifts of the document (12) transverse to the direction of document (12) advance, while the document (12) is captured by belts (24, 26) and while the document (12) is being advanced along the path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1989
    Assignee: Recognition Equipment Incorporated
    Inventor: William C. Monday