Method and apparatus for processing envelopes containing documents to obtain images of the documents

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8893456
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12863711

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A method and apparatus for processing mail is provided. Mail is placed into an input been having a conveyor that conveys the mail towards a feeder. The feeder serially feeds the envelopes to a cutter that severs the top edge of the envelopes. A transport conveys the envelopes from the top cutter to an extractor. The extractor opens the edge-severed mail and presents the contents of the envelopes to an operator who manually extracts the contents. From the extractor, the operator manually feeds the extracted documents to a document input. From the document input, the documents are fed to a document transport that conveys the documents past an imaging module to obtain image data for the documents before sorting the documents to output bins.

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OPEX CORPORATION305 COMMERCE DRIVE MOORESTOWN NJ 08057

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
DeWitt, Robert R Marlton, US 90 2111
Grasmueck, Erick Voorhees, US 2 4
Hayduchok, George L Mount Holly, US 36 1000
Helmlinger, David Mount Laurel, US 15 40
Sullivan, Michael Florence, US 92 1287

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