Patent ID: 6196392
Filing Date: 2001-03-06
Classification: B07C,B65H,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
A method of feeding and tabbing intermixed pieces of mail comprising the steps of:positioning a plurality of intermixed pieces of mail having a plurality of different widths, lengths, and thicknesses so that each of the plurality of intermixed pieces of mail has a commonly-oriented edge to be tabbed, the commonly-oriented edge to be tabbed being defined as being generally perpendicular to the address orientation of a piece of mail when reading the address of the piece of mail; andpositioning at least one tab on each of the plurality of intermixed pieces of mail by dispensing the at least one tab onto each of the plurality of intermixed pieces of mail so that a portion of the dispensed tab extends off an outer surface of the piece of mail at the commonly-oriented edge to be tabbed and wrapping the tab around the commonly-oriented edge to be tabbed as each of the plurality of intermixed pieces of mail travels downstream along a predetermined path of travel.