Assignee: Bell & Howell Mail and Messaging Technologies Company

Location: Durham, NC
No. of patents: 27

Number	Title	Issue Date
7698151	Electronic document presentment services in the event of a disaster The disaster recovery techniques, for presentment of a company's bills, statements or the like, provide electronic document presentment in the event of a disaster that impacts the company's print mail delivery operation or other existing mailing system(s). Files con...	04/13/2010
6718740	Inserting apparatus and method with controlled, master cycle speed-dependent actuator operations In an inserting apparatus and method such as the continuous motion type, a motion controller electrically communicates with an encoder, a first motor driving an insert conveyor assembly, a second motor driving an envelope conveyor assembly, and an actuator operative...	04/13/2004
6717169	Automated methods and systems for analyzing data associated with an industrial process Automated methods and systems for analyzing data associated with an industrial process parse data entries received from devices in an industrial process, such as a mail or paper processing system. The parsing can include applying state machines to the data to identi...	04/06/2004
6712354	Accumulator apparatus and method having improved sheet registration An accumulator apparatus and method are provided for accumulating sheet articles. The accumulator apparatus includes an upper belt system and lower belt system operative for advancing sheet articles in seriatim manner therebetween. Guide rollers are provided at the ...	03/30/2004
6701315	Systems, methods, and computer program products for delivering information in a preferred medium Methods, systems and computer program products for delivering information to a user in one or more preferred delivery media are provided. Preferred delivery media includes, but is not limited to, e-mail, HTML, fax, printed copy, and mail. A user profile, ...	03/02/2004
6644659	Sheet feeder apparatus and method with throughput control A sheet feeder apparatus and method with throughput control. By varying the speed at which sheets are fed from a supply, the sheet feeder apparatus and method assures that the throughput capacity of a downstream operation is never exceeded. Speed is varie...	11/11/2003
6614916	Machine vision system and triggering method A machine vision system and associated triggering method utilizes images acquired by a video camera to trigger the video camera to acquire an image feature of interest. The video camera continuously acquires images of an object using a portion of the tota...	09/02/2003
6557847	Right angle stager apparatus A right-angle sheet stager apparatus for merging multiple input sheet streams into a single output sheet stream includes one or more input channels and an output channel. Each input channel includes a transport surface and a staging surface. Each transpor...	05/06/2003
6557755	Methods and systems for tracking and controlling mailpiece processing using postal service mailpiece code Methods and systems for tracking and controlling mailpiece processing utilize one or more postal service mailpiece codes. The postal service mailpiece codes can include a United States Postal Service POSTNET code and a PLANET code. Using the same code or ...	05/06/2003
6554274	Right angle stager apparatus and method A right-angle sheet stager apparatus for merging multiple input sheet streams into a single output sheet stream includes one or more input channels and an output channel. Each input channel includes a transport surface and a staging surface. Each transpor...	04/29/2003
6536191	Method and apparatus for high speed envelope traying A method and apparatus for high speed traying of mail pieces includes a tray filling head assembly, a tray fill conveyor assembly, and a tray feed assembly. A continuous stream of mail pieces are fed into the tray fill head assembly, which controllably mo...	03/25/2003
6378861	Right angle stager apparatus and method A right-angle sheet stager apparatus for merging multiple-input sheet streams into a single output sheet stream includes one or more input channels and an output channel. Each input channel includes a transport surface and a staging surface. Each transpor...	04/30/2002
6354583	Sheet feeder apparatus and method with throughput control A sheet feeder apparatus and method with throughput control. By varying the speed at which sheets are fed from a supply, the sheet feeder apparatus and method assures that the throughput capacity of a downstream operation is never exceeded. Speed is varie...	03/12/2002
6283276	Overhead pusher finger guide system The invention is directed to an overhead pusher finger guide system, preferably for use with a sheet handling apparatus. The guide system prevents the lower conveyor run from sagging or otherwise moving out of the proper feed plane. Accordingly, superior ...	09/04/2001
6276621	Cutter module with an integrated trim disposal mechanism A cutter module with an integrated trim disposal mechanism is disclosed. The integrated trim disposal mechanism results in the lack of need for using large expensive external trim disposal devices. The trim disposal mechanism chops the trim into small pie...	08/21/2001
6203006	Sheet-size and stacking direction adjustable accumulator with removable ramps and method A sheet-size and stacking direction adjustable accumulator and method are disclosed. The accumulator is easily adjustable for handling sheets of different widths and for either under or over accumulating. The adjustability is provided by allowing accumula...	03/20/2001
6199348	High speed envelope packing apparatus An apparatus for high speed packing of envelopes is disclosed. The apparatus includes an envelope flap opening assembly which facilitates the opening of each envelope by a finger of an opening element as the envelope passes through packing apparatus. Each...	03/13/2001
6176483	High speed document separator and sequencing apparatus A separator and sequencing apparatus comprising a first selective document transport means for selective movement of documents and a second selective document transport means for selective movement of documents positioned adjacent to the first selective d...	01/23/2001
6131722	High speed envelope packing apparatus An apparatus for high speed packing of envelopes is disclosed. The apparatus includes an envelope flap opening assembly which facilitates the opening of each envelope by a finger of an opening element as the envelope passes through packing apparatus. Each...	10/17/2000
6131053	High speed document processing machine The invention is directed to a high-speed document-processing machine, comprising a diverse-set-compilation section, comprising a burster having a local non-Distributed Control System controller; a reader and an accumulator having a reader/accumulator Dis...	10/10/2000
6119051	Client-server system, method and computer product for managing database driven insertion (DDI) and mail piece tracking (MPT) data A client/server architecture for database driven insertion and mail piece tracking system, method, and computer program product is disclosed. A database is populated with database driven insertion data comprising instructions for handling mailpiece materi...	09/12/2000
6079705	Method and apparatus for verifying the integrity of a mail piece An apparatus and method for verifying the number of articles, preferably intended to be credit, debit, or similar cards, in a carrier is described. Though different embodiments are possible, the preferred embodiment comprises a caliper apparatus and micro...	06/27/2000
6078678	Method and apparatus for object surveillance along a transport path A method and apparatus for document surveillance along a transport path in a mail sorting machine includes using a plurality of sequentially positioned photocells affixed along the transport path to detect document separation and jamming events through th...	06/20/2000
6062556	Method and apparatus for merging sheets Apparatus and method for merging sheet streams conveyed in side-by-side streams in a conveying direction into a single stream. An infeed conveyor conveys at least two sheet streams side-by side in a direction toward a merger. The merger separates and sepa...	05/16/2000
6049775	Systems, methods and computer program products for monitoring and controlling mail processing devices A system, method, device, and/or computer program product for remotely managing a plurality of remote mail processing devices. The system comprises receiving means for receiving operation related information from each of said plurality of remote mail proc...	04/11/2000
6032953	Smudge-free sheet material handling apparatus and method A smudge-free sheet material handling apparatus and method are disclosed. The device moves sheet material by only pushing on the edges of the sheet material. Since there is no toner or ink at these locations, the sheet material can be fed without risk of ...	03/07/2000
6032122	Systems, methods and computer program products for monitoring and controlling mail processing devices Systems, methods, and computer program products for managing a plurality of mail processing devices are provided. A mail insertion device is represented on a computer display as an interactive icon. Visible indicia is associated with each icon for display...	02/29/2000

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Assignee: Bell & Howell Mail and Messaging Technologies Company