Postal finishing kiosk

US5457636A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Pitney Bowes Inc. · US

Inventors

• Ronald P. Sansone · Weston, US
• Michael D. O'Hare · Fairfield, US
• Steven M. Kaye · Weston, US
• John C. Hamma · Milford, US
• John T. Balga, Jr. · Stratford, US
• Fran E. Blackman · Weston, US
• David W. Hubbard · Stamford, US
• Kevin D. Hunter · Stratford, US
• Wendy F. Jai · San Diego, US
• Scott Korowotny · Oxford, US
• Jeffrey D. Pierce · Sandy Hook, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 29, 1993
• Grant date: Oct 10, 1995
• Expiry date: Jul 29, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07B2017/00225
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A postal finishing kiosk in which a user is provided with a mail piece, such as a postcard. The user supplies the name and address to which the mail piece is to be sent and the kiosk dispenses a finished mail piece to the user with the address printer thereon. A feature of the kiosk is that it stores the mail piece forms on a roll, but delivers a linear mail piece to the user. In an alternative to the invention, the kiosk dispenses a ticket to the user that can be used in activities of the environment in which the kiosk is found.