Appeal 2007-1799
Application 10/036,991
INTRODUCTION
The claims are directed to a system of sanitizing mailpieces (claims 1-
12) or sorting and sanitizing mailpieces (claims 13-15). Claims 1, 4, and 13
illustrative:
1. A system for sanitizing mailpieces comprising:
a component for singulating and feeding a mailpiece along a
feed path of the system;
a sanitizer module positioned downstream of the component for
singulating and feeding the mailpiece, the sanitizer module for
sanitizing the mailpiece;
a filtered transition area downstream of the sanitizer module;
and
an output bin module for receiving a mailpiece after the
mailpiece has been sanitized.
4. The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the sanitizer module
comprises:
a first set of guide walls, each guide wall in the first set of guide
walls positioned parallel to the feed path and facing the other guide
wall forming an alley along the feed path;
a second set of guide walls positioned down stream of the first
set of guide walls along the feed path and forming a gap along the
feed path between the first set of guide walls and the second set of
guide walls, each guide wall in the second set of guide walls
positioned parallel to the feed path and facing the other guide wall
forming an alley along the feed path; and
a sanitization apparatus positioned along the feed path in the
area of the gap along the feed path between the first set of guide walls
and the second set of guide walls, wherein the sanitizer module is
adjacent to the filtered transition area.
13. A system for sorting and sanitizing incoming mailpieces
comprising:
a component for singulating and feeding a mailpiece along a
feed path of the system;
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