Addressograph

A mailing is an office machine that recurring forms or addresses automatically reproduces them constantly for example for mail delivery or payment of wages which are present as matrices. Matrices are either zinc plates that are embossed on a machine with adjustable letter and number device, or typewritten or machine set labeled fiberboard.

The templates are fed through the slide and, pressed paper, which is on the ribbon by the pressure arm. For other types, the plates are colored with pillows or printed by Transkritdruck. Paper or Matrizenvorschub can be controlled by riders on the matrix so that certain matrices are several times or not printed. By changing the pressure pad can bring only certain parts of the template for printing. The drive is electric, hand- made ​​only the insertion and removal of the Matrizenstapels and the paper ( envelopes and so on ). The best known brands are: Adrema and Addressograph. Fully automatic machines perform a hundred times the handwritten addressing.

Julius Goldschmidt ( born September 26, 1884 in Eldagsen, † February 11, 1936 in exile in Zurich ) was a German - Jewish inventor of the mechanical ADREMA system for addressing mass - mailing letters and ADREMA. On April 22, 1913, he founded in Berlin Adrema engineering company GmbH. Then he was the Adressiermaschinenfabrikant the Adrema Werke GmbH in Berlin. In 1935, he was forced as a Jew in Germany, to sell the company and to emigrate. The name was an acronym for Adrema Adressiere machine.

Since the production of the individual matrices is expensive, designed their correction in address change quite expensive and the storage of 10,000 addresses consumes a larger specialist cabinet, they were now practically everywhere replaced by information technology.