{"id":3930,"date":"2024-07-28T08:55:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T13:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=3930"},"modified":"2024-07-28T08:56:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T13:56:59","slug":"july-28-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=3930","title":{"rendered":"July 28, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Continuing the mail theme from Friday’s post<\/a>, on July 28, 1942, U.S. Patent No. 2,290,920, issued on a Coin Operated Mailing Machine.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This was actually the third patent to issue to inventor Linden Thatcher on this invention in 1942 (U.S. Patent No. 2,358,424 and 2,273,300) and is one of a total of five for this prolific inventor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All these patents were assigned to the Pitney-Bowes Postage Meter Company, which has a long history of inventing and patenting. In 1902, Arthur Pitney patented his first “double-locking” hand-cranked postage-stamping machine (U.S. Patent No. 710,997), and with patent attorney Eugene A. Rummler, founded the Pitney Postal Machine Company, which became the American Postage Meter Company<\/em> in 1912.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In 1920, the company merged with Walter Bowes’ Universal Stamping Machine Company with the invention of the first commercially available postage meter. U.S. Patent No. RE14916, a reissue of the Company’s earlier U.S. Patent No. 1,273,792.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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