Abstract: A driver for positioning the postage amount handles of a postage meter, the driver including motors which, in response to control signals from a postage computer, axially displace shafts along paths generally parallel to the paths of the postage meter handles. The shafts support actuator fingers which couple the shaft movement to the respective handles. An optical interruptor for each shaft senses various shaft positions and provides signals to the postage computer which are used in part to develop the control signals.

Abstract: An electronic digital display scale with a label printer adapted to weigh an article, to print a measured weight of said article on a label and to adhere said label onto said article weighed, wherein the printed label is held by a label transfer device by means of adhering or suction and transferred to an applying position outside a frame, thereby said label is applied to the weighted article by depressing said weighed article against the label retained by said label transfer device.

Abstract: A recording scale, for the recovery of used materials such as waste paper. It is provided with weighing means for determining the weight of materials presented and for recording weight which are associated with the weighing means. The means aforesaid are contained in a closed casing having an opening which is accessible from the exterior for the introduction of materials to be recovered, this opening being located opposite to the weighing means for bringing the materials to be weighed onto the means, provision being made for ejecting means operable from the exterior by means of an operating member for releasing the weighing means and transferring the weighed materials into a storage chamber, the operation of the weight-recording means being made dependent on the operation of the ejecting means.