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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5143164 | Apparatus and method for improving the accuracy of weighing an object Apparatus and method for improving the accuracy of weighing an object using a scale, when the object to be weighed may not be positioned completely on the scale, by performing a first weighing operation, slightly moving the scale on which the object is we... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5139100 | Point-of-sale scanner/scale system with scale activation of scanner A scanner/scale system in which power to the scanner light source and/or motor is triggered by a weight placed on the scale and in which the scanner is situated between the load assemblies of the scale and the scale platter is situated above the scanner.... | 08/18/1992 |
| 5125465 | Fast retail security weighing system A fast retail security weighing system is disclosed whereby if a second purchased item's product code is entered before the weight corresponding to the first purchased item's product code has been measured and verified, the system will consider the weight... | 06/30/1992 |
| 5124926 | Carrier management system having accounting registers A register system such as a carrier management system has a scale for weighing parcels, and a computer for determining shipping costs of the parcels. The computer has a memory including one or more accounting registers. A user PROM having a unique identif... | 06/23/1992 |
| 5121328 | Fee calculating apparatus for calculating delivery fee of parcel in accordance with its weight, length, and delivery area In a fee calculating apparatus for calculating a delivery fee, when weight data obtained by measurement in a weight measuring section such as an electronic scale, length data obtained by measurement in a length measuring section such as an automatic measu... | 06/09/1992 |
| 5117364 | Carrier management method and system having auto-rate shopping A carrier management system includes a scale for weighing parcels to be shipped, a computer connected to receive data from the scale related to the weight of a parcel thereon, and first input keys enabling the input of information. The computer has a data... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5113955 | Price-calculating electronic scale A price-calculating scale for self-service use equipped with an input keyboard with key fields provided with pictographs of goods, the price per kilogram of which is entered in the scales by means of the appropriate key field. For the purpose of adaptatio... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5097915 | Postal rate device A postal rate device for use in cooperation with a scale for facilitating interchangeability of an insert card bearing indicia representing a weight to rate conversion table. The device includes a cover which is configured with a recessed portion that acc... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5083638 | Automated point-of-sale machine An automated retail point-of-sale machine is disclosed having the ability to allow consumers to check out their purchases with a minimal of direct human assistance. The machine is designed to work with products whether labelled or not with machine readabl... | 01/28/1992 |
| 5082072 | Modular mailing machine A mailing machine comprised of a plurality of modules, each of the modules a particular process function on a delivered envelope. The modules are arranged with in a single process station. The comprising modules include a scale module having means for wei... | 01/21/1992 |
| 5072397 | Carrier management system enabling determination of charges with discounts A carrier management system includes a scale for weighing parcels to be shipped, a computer connected to receive data from the scale related to the weight of a parcel thereon, and a keyboard enabling operator input to the computer. The keyboard has a plur... | 12/10/1991 |
| 5069299 | Letter scale and franking machine incorporating same A letter scale is adapted to be connected to a postal charge calculator unit and a printhead of a franking machine. It includes a horizontal plate adapted to receive a letter to be weighed and to move vertically due to the weight of the letter. A coding a... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5052504 | Sales data transmission system A sales data transmission system includes a sales data processor such as a scale of the type capable of calculating and displaying a sales price from a unit price and a measured weight, a communication device which is made a part of this data processor an... | 10/01/1991 |
| 5046570 | Weighing device for checkout counters and the like An article transporting and weighing device for use at checkout counters and the like includes a series of successively-disposed conveyors operable for transporting articles thereon and therealong to a collection station, and a weighing device located und... | 09/10/1991 |
| 5033562 | Weigh plate quick release mount A quick release weigh plate for a weighing device includes a support member to which is secured a pair of cantilever load beam cells for generating electrical signals representing the weight of an object placed on the load beam cells. The load beam cells ... | 07/23/1991 |
| 5024282 | Electronic postal rating scale operable in metric and avoirdupois weight units An electronic postal scale measures the weight of an item in metric or in avoirdupois units, at the user's election. The scale also calculates a postal or shipping rate for the item, in accordance with a stored rate table defined in either metric or avoir... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5021964 | Franking machine A franking machine includes a printer for impressing postal franks on articles such as letters. The machine further includes a weighing pan coupled to a load cell, a microprocessor operative to respond to the output of the load cell for controlling the op... | 06/04/1991 |
| 5019991 | Certified weigher-short paid mail A system for certifying correctly accounted postage payment, the system includes an input for entering transactional mail run data and a data processor coupled to the input. Documents to be certified are fed along a document feed path, and certain paramet... | 05/28/1991 |
| 5014797 | Modular mailing machine A mailing machine comprised of a plurality of modules, each of the modules a particular process function on a delivered envelope. The modules are arranged with in a single process station. The comprising modules include a scale module having means for wei... | 05/14/1991 |
| 5009276 | Electronic postal scale with multilingual operator prompts and report headings An electronic postal scale displays operator prompt messages and generates reports in more than one language. The language to be used in selectable by the operator of the scale. In a preferred embodiment there are two languages, English and French.... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5001648 | Method and apparatus for a mail processing system Mail handling or processing systems are disclosed wherein the entire lot or batch of mail pieces is loaded into a bin for processing. Each mail piece is individually removed by an operator while the computer monitors the weight of the bin and simultaneous... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4967383 | Operational condition setting device for combination weighing machine A device for setting various operational parameters of combination weighing machine, such as target weight, speed of operation, name of product, allowable range of weight, hopper gate opening time and feed conveyor operation time. In this device, it is on... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4940887 | Automatic mail handling and postage vending machine A computerized handling device automatically processes mail items. The device includes a housing, a coin identifying and changing device, and a microcomputer controller, and has an inlet for mail items. Also included are mechanisms for causing the return ... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4932485 | Electronic scale device with printer for retail stores An electronic scale device which measures weight of an item and calculates a price of the item by multiplying the weight of the item by a unit price of the item, and has printing device for printing out item data including the weight of the item and the p... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4928229 | Label printer The label printer comprises at least two printing units and a control unit. Each printing unit can print a specific label under the control of the control unit. The label is printed with information concerning a commodity, such as a price and a weight of ... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4923022 | Automatic mailing apparatus An automatic mailing apparatus comprises a transfer device, a weighing device, a stamping device, a detecting device and a collecting device. The automatic mailing apparatus is an automatic machine in the shape of a case. The case has a front panel for ma... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4923023 | Modular mailing machine A mailing machine comprised of a plurality of modules, each of the modules a particular process function on a delivered envelope. The modules are arranged within a single process station. The comprising modules include a scale module having means for weig... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4901808 | Device for automatically weighing objects in conveyance A device for weighing slender or piece-like objects being conveyed. This device includes a driving means, a fixed stand, a movable stand, a conveyed onto a supporting portion of the movable stand, the movable stand will be lowered thereby putting the obje... | 02/20/1990 |
| 4901237 | Electronic scale system An electronic scale system having a plurality of electronic scales each having a device for entering and storing merchandise data with respect to many articles of merchandise. The stored merchandise data are automatically transmitted successively to the e... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4892162 | Mailing machine The input station of a mailing machine includes an inclined tray for feeding vertically extending mail pieces. The thickness of the mail pieces is sensed, and a separator is responsive to sensed thickness to control the feed of the lowest mail piece on th... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4886132 | Cutter module for a modular mailing machine A cutter module for a mailing machine having a support wall and base includes a cutter support member slideably mounted to one of the mailing machine support walls such that the cutter support member can be slideably displaced longitudinally traversed to ... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4879650 | POS register system with combined optical scanner and weighing machine A point-of-sale register system includes an electronic cash register connected to a central inventory control unit to serve as a terminal device of a point-of-sale system: an optical scanner, which is electrically connected to the cash register, for optic... | 11/07/1989 |
| 4872521 | Platen module for a modular mailing machine A platen module is fixably mounted to the base of a modular mailing machine. A support wall is fixably mounted to the base. Also fixably mounted to the base of the mailing machine is a drive motor having a output shaft and a plurality of gears fixably mou... | 10/10/1989 |
| 4872119 | Electronic postal scale for computing a postal charge An electronic postal scale for computing a postal charge in correspondence with complicated rates and additional services is disclosed. The electronic postal scale is basically constituted by a scale portion, an operating portion provided with preset keys... | 10/03/1989 |
| 4867257 | Slicing machine with product identifier The slicing machine, primarily for sliced meats, has a code reader, particularly a bar code reader, available in the vicinity of its goods slicing carriage which reliably determines the goods code for the sliced goods during the slicing process and fetche... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4868757 | Computerized integrated electronic mailing/addressing apparatus An apparatus capable of automatically handling envelopes through various stages of processing, including electronic display of the envelope, electronic weighing of the envelope and printing of a stamp, date, time, location and ZIP+4 code in numerical and ... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4864521 | Multiranging scale with blanking of rate display According to the invention, a multiranging scale which operates in two weighing modes, a high range mode and a low range mode, and which displays not only weight but rate and/or charge information associated with mailing or shipping an article, is inhibit... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4852676 | Electronic weighing machine Disclosed is here an electronic weighing machine in which the price is calculated from a unit price set thereto and the weight of the item loaded on a tray so as to display the unit price, weight, and price on the display in a digitalized form and to disp... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4849918 | Weighing instrument having adaptive breakpoints A weighing instrument is provided with two sets of breakpoints; "generic breakpoints" which fall at the midpoint of successive display intervals, and "postal breakpoints" which fall at or near one of the two successive display intervals. Under "normal" ci... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4841280 | Visual display apparatus for information items A visual display apparatus comprises a multisegment bar display (2) having display characters (16) divided into two groups. In the first group individual outer segment bars (17) are each associated with a respective permanent marking which indicates a spe... | 06/20/1989 |
