Albert L Scribner

45162093, May 7, 1985

Feb 9, 1983

6/465131

Albert W. Scribner - Darien CT

Pitney Bowes Inc. - Stamford CT

G06F 1520
G01G 2338

364466

A postage metering system including a scale and having the capacity to check the weight of items to be mailed and including apparatus for printing postage indicia on items falling outside a preselected range is disclosed. The system includes a postage metering subsystem, having the capability to print indicia corresponding to a particular postage value, a scale for determining if the weight is within the preselected range, apparatus to set the particular postage value to be printed and apparatus for determining the preselected range as a predetermined function of the particular postage value. The determining apparatus may also determine the particular postage value from input data using a conventional weight-to-postage routine and may use such a weight-to-postage routine to determine the preselected weight range. In one embodiment, the printing apparatus is enabled only when the weight of the item to be mailed is within the preselected range. In a second embodiment, the system includes a transportation apparatus for sequentially transporting items to be mailed through the scale and printing apparatus, and including a gate mechanism between the scale and the printing apparatus for diverting items with weights outside the preselected range before they are imprinted.

40957330, Jun 20, 1978

May 25, 1977

5/800284

Albert W. Scribner - Darien CT

B65H 1736

226162

A pneumatic stock feeder for punch presses and the like, said feeder having an improved fluid actuating and control system. The feeder is provided with a stock gripping fluid motor means and a feed slide actuating fluid motor means; which fluid motor means are adapted to be controlled by an improved four-way slide valve arrangement. The slide valve includes a flat plate surface on which is disposed a recesses valve cup or pad that is laterally translatable between two operative valving positions. The recesses valve cup has a flat valving surface formed thereon that slidably engages said flat plate surface and valvingly cooperates with at least three ports formed in said flat plate surface so as to thereby control the operation of said fluid motor means. A control plunger and an associated coupling means are adapted to laterally shift said valve pad between its two operative positions in response to the movement of the ram of said punch press.

52193667, Jun 15, 1993

Apr 2, 1992

7/862299

Albert W. Scribner - Darien CT

A61F 266

623 57

A bi-directionally operable terminal device for an upper limb prosthesis is provided having a frame that includes a rigid finger portion which, to simulate the fingers of a natural hand, is partially curled in a manner generally corresponding in configuration and location to the normal relaxed finger condition of the natural hand; this rigid finger portion of said frame effectively constituting a first gripping jaw means. To said frame is attached a thumb-like unit that is adapted to swing towards and away from said rigid finger portion of the frame; this thumb-like unit including its immediately adjacent frame support structure effectively constituting a second jaw means. Operatively disposed between said thumb-like unit and said rigid finger portion of the frame, for bi-directional gripping movement, is the hooked forward end of a finger slide that is movably carried by said frame; this hooked forward end of said finger slide effectively constituting a third or central jaw means. The said first, second and third jaw means are disposed in substantially linear array. Forward movement of said finger slide (the third jaw means) enables an object to be gripped between said hooked end of the finger slide, (the third jaw means) and the rigid finger portion of said frame (the first jaw means) while rearward movement of said finger slide enables an object to be gripped between said thumb-like unit (the second jaw means) and said hooked end of the finger slide.

42425662, Dec 30, 1980

Mar 21, 1980

6/132458

Albert W. Scribner - Darien CT

Pitney Bowes Inc. - Stamford CT

H05B 100
G03G 1520

219216

A heat-pressure fusing apparatus that exhibits high thermal efficiency is disclosed. The fusing apparatus comprises at least one pair of first and second oppositely driven pressure fixing feed rollers, each of the rollers having an outer layer of a thermal insulating material; first and second idler rollers, a first flexible endless belt disposed about the first idler roller and each of the first pressure feed rollers and a second flexible endless belt disposed about the second idler roller and each of the second pressure feed rollers, at least one of the belts having an outer surface formed of a thermal conductive material, wherein there is defined an area of contact between the outer surfaces of the first and second belts located between the first and second pressure feed rollers for passing the copy sheet between the two belts under pressure; and means spaced relative to the belt whose outer surface comprises the thermal conductive material for heating the outer surface thereof, whereby when an unfused copy sheet is passed through the area of contact between the two belts it is subject to sufficient heat and pressure to fuse developed toner images thereon.

40519872, Oct 4, 1977

Apr 22, 1976

5/679438

Albert W. Scribner - Darien CT

B65H 1736
B65H 1744

226115

A high speed dual-slide type pneumatic feeder for intermittently advancing strip stock into the work station of a punch press or the like characterized by a novel asynchronous type fluid control system which includes a rotary control valve that is intermittently stepped to a plurality of predetermined operative angular positions by means of a ratchet mechanism that is adapted to be operated in response to the ram motion of the punch press. The feeder is also characterized by an improved, compact, flexible and more efficient structural arrangement, and by a novel stock grip releasing system and valving arrangement therefor that automatically causes the stock to be released immediately after completion of each feed stroke of the feeder.

42779979, Jul 14, 1981

Mar 14, 1979

6/020268

Albert W. Scribner - Darien CT

B65H 1736

83225

An improved multi-stroke control system for a pneumatically operated feeder for punch presses and the like; such system including means to charge and discharge a pneumatic capacitance. The pneumatic capacitance is adapted to be charged in response to the initiation of a first operative cycle of the feeder and to be discharged in response to the completion of said first cycle; said discharge being adapted to initiate a second operative cycle of said feeder. Once triggered the feeder may execute a number of successive operative cycles, the particular number being dependent on the effective volume of said pneumatic capacitance.

51163861, May 26, 1992

Feb 15, 1991

7/656284

Albert W. Scribner - Darien CT

A61F 256

623 64

This invention relates to an improved construction and arrangement for a hand prosthesis wherein cooperating finger-like and thumb-like units are adapted to be yieldably biased towards a closed condition and are capable of being opened simply by pressing the prosthesis against an external object for reception of an item to be held. In operation one or both of the finger and/or thumb-like units are adapted to conform to the general profile of the contacted surfaces of the item to be grasped. Further a normally inoperative supplemental gripping force generating means is provided which is capable, when actuated, of applying a large separate additional gripping force over and above that which is normally applied by the said yieldable biasing action. Also one of said units is adapted to be selectively positioned in at least two different fixed positions relative to the other unit in order to make possible the gripping of different ranges of sizes of items to be held.

41605187, Jul 10, 1979

Feb 6, 1978

5/875619

Albert W. Scribner - Darien CT

B65H 1742

226115

An improved control system for a dual slide type stock feeder for punch presses and the like, said control system being adapted to cause the feeder to execute two serial feed strokes in response to each cyclic operation of the punch press. The control system comprises a control plunger which is responsive to the movement of the press ram and which is adapted to actuate a fluid control circuit that causes one of said feed slides to execute a feed stroke and then causes the other feed slide to execute a feed stroke; there being two serial stock feed strokes produced for each cyclic operation of said control plunger. The feed slides may be controlled so as to operate in a substantially 180 degree mutual phase relation, or each may automatically complete an index stroke immediately after completing a feed stroke so that both of said feed slides are normally disposed in indexed positions.