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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7758483 | Method and device for producing folded printed products In a method for producing folded printed products a paper web is printed by at least one digital printing machine and the paper web is then processed by a sequence of processing steps, wherein full size sheets or web sections having at least four printed pages for a... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7192028 | Device for processing printed products supplied to a stacking device In a device for processing printed products supplied to a stacking device, the printed products are picked up at a delivery of a printing machine or a printed product processing machine by a transport device and are transported in a suspended position on a transport... | 03/20/2007 |
| 6796209 | Cutting machine for automatic trimming of printed products A cutting machine for automatically trimming edges of folded printed products has a first cutting station with a cutting element for performing a front cut at a front cut location on an open side of the printed products. A feeding device transports the printed produ... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6793211 | Pocket wheel feeding device A feeder for collecting printed sheets in an astride position includes a pulling-off drum which has at the circumference thereof gripping members for pulling off printed sheets stacked in a magazine. The feeder further includes a unit for conveying the printed sheet... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6758469 | Gripping conveyor with pneumatic separator A feeding device for feeding a processing line with printed products, including folded or non-folded printed sheets, from a stack of printed products. The printed sheets are held in a magazine. A conveyor defines a circulating path and moves in a conveying direction... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6698749 | Device for feeding folded or unfolded signatures to a production line A feeder device for removing folded or unfolded signatures from a stack of signatures in an adjacent signature magazine and feeding a production line with the signatures. The device includes a conveying rotor having an approximately circular circumference... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6655674 | Arrangement for stitching the spine of printed products, compiled of folded printed sheets, by means of staples An arrangement for stitching the spine of printed products, complied of folded printed sheets, by staples has a stitching device with a stitching head/bending arrangement. A conveying device for conveying the printed products to the stitching device at a ... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6619650 | Device for feeding printed products to a conveying channel A device is used to insert and/or deposit printed products into a conveying channel. The printed products are conveyed in the conveying channel with of carriers of a conveying element. An acceleration apparatus pre-accelerates the printed products in conv... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6616139 | Device for removing printed products transported uniformly spaced on a transport device A device for removing printed products, having a fold and being transported uniformly spaced and astraddle by a transport device, has a rotatingly driven gripping device with controlled gripping elements for gripping one of the printed products by the fol... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6609605 | Arrangement for intermediate storage of packages In an arrangement and a method for intermediate storage of packages, a first transport path is provided to transport packages from a loading station to a transfer station. A second transport path and at least one storage surface arranged along the second ... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6568672 | Device for forming a stack of successively arranged printed sheets A device for forming a stack of successively arranged printed sheets has a stack support with support elements and a conveying device supplying printed sheets, arranged in an imbricated arrangement, in a vertical direction to the stack support. The printe... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6547240 | Gripper drum for gripping printed products A gripper drum for gripping printed products includes a drum shaft; at least one gripper disk coupled to the drum shaft; a gripper shaft disposed on the at least one gripper disk and having a shaft body rotatable about its longitudinal axis; an apparatus ... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6540066 | Conveyor for gathering and processing printed sheets Signatures are transported straddling on a saddle-shaped support of a conveying device by circulating drivers and are removed by means of a blade of the conveying device and are transferred to a lift-off device. The conveying device is lowered in the regi... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6533207 | Method and arrangement for producing a roll from printed products A method for producing a roll from printed products in a winding operation includes winding the printed products with winding tape onto a winding core; driving a winding rug with a first drive, wherein the winding rug is arranged on the underside of the w... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6520446 | Device for winding and unwinding flat printed sheets onto or from a rotary winding drum A winding device for flat printed sheets has a rotatably supported winding drum for receiving and dispensing printed sheets. At least one winding mandrel having a winding belt wound thereon and configured to unwind the winding belt and feed undershot the ... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6517064 | Device for gathering and conveying printed sheets straddling a gathering segment A device is provided for gathering and conveying printed sheets over a conveying path. The device includes a gathering segment, with the legs of the printed sheets straddling the gathering segment. The gathering segment includes a conveyor device having a... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6508881 | Device for maintaining constant a certain viscosity of an adhesive for pasting the spine of an inner book or a book cover A device for maintaining constant a certain viscosity of an adhesive, that is used for pasting a spine of an inner book or a book cover, by adding a diluent has an adhesive container filled with an adhesive. A rotating conveyor roll is immersed in the adh... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6505730 | Distribution arrangement for packages A distribution arrangement for packages has a first conveying device and one or more producing groups transferring packages onto the first conveying device. Target groups receive the packages from the first conveying device for further transport. The firs... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6502782 | Winding stand for a reel hub employed for winding and unwinding flat printed products For a space-saving and cost-effective device for winding or unwinding printed products onto or off of a reel hub (3), which can be supported on a winding stand and to which at least one winding tape (10) is supplied undershot to the reel hub (3) and which... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6484639 | Device for delivering a printing plate to a plate cylinder of a printing press A device for delivering a printing plate having at least one edge to a plate cylinder of a printing press in a position for exchange is provided. The device includes at least one selectable exchangeable format slide-in unit insertable into the printing pr... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6390748 | Device for threading a binding thread along a transfer path between a thread spool and a sewing needle A device for threading a binding thread along a transfer path between a thread spool and a sewing needle of a stitching unit of a thread stitching machine configured for binding a book in sheets at a groove side of the book in sheets has manipulation devi... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6375179 | Device for opening a folded signature and depositing it onto a running conveyor A device for opening and depositing a folded signature onto a moving conveyor for conveying the folded signatures in a conveying direction includes two opening rollers each having a rotational axis that extends essentially parallel to the conveying direct... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6357479 | Rotary disc valve A rotary disc valve with a stationary valve plate provided with a vacuum connection, a rotary slide member mounted so as to be movable between first and second valve positions, wherein the slide member has a breakthrough connecting the vacuum connection t... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6328519 | Method and device for producing printed products A method is disclosed for fabricating printed products, such as newsprint, brochures and the like, from folded signatures by partially joining the signatures together at the folded edges with an adhesive to form a bound spine. The signatures are moved ast... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6315107 | Conveyor plant for gathering and processing printed sheets A conveyor plant for gathering and processing printed sheets includes a saddle-shaped collecting chain, a double chain with a gap between the individual chains of the double chain, a transfer area in which the collecting chain travels into the gap of the ... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314881 | Printing group for a printing press A printing group for a printing press includes a plate cylinder, a blanket cylinder operatively coupled to the plate cylinder, and a further cylinder operatively coupled to the blanket cylinder. The blanket cylinder includes two end faces, each of which h... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6311968 | Method of producing printed products by inserting partial products and/or enclosures into a primary product, and device for executing the method A method and device for producing printed products wherein first primary products are supplied, respectively, fold first to successive, uniformly-spaced pockets disposed transversely to a conveying direction at a beginning of a first segment of a producti... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6308945 | Apparatus for placing folded signatures on a transport device Signatures (1) are individually gripped from a stack (2) by a rotatable extracting cylinder (A) and transferred to a first rotating opening cylinder (B) and a second rotating opening cylinder (C) which open the gripped signatures (1) at the edges (4, 5) o... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6302007 | Method for trimming the exposed lateral edges of printed bound documents conveyed individually or in quires and apparatus for carrying out the method For trimming the exposed lateral edges of printed bound documents (4 to 6) conveyed individually or in quires, such as books, brochures or magazines, which are held at the bound lateral edge (23) and conveyed to a trimming device (2) through a rotational ... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6254088 | Method of manufacturing printed products by insetting at least one subproduct into a main product and apparatus for carrying out the method A method and an apparatus for manufacturing printed products by insetting at least one subproduct and/or inserts into a main product, wherein at least the main products are grasped at the delivery of a printing machine by revolving gripping members of a c... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6234054 | Cutter for automatic trimming of leaflets magazines and books A cutter arrangement for automatically trimming flat products, such as leaflets, magazines and books transported along a horizontal path includes a clamping mechanism positioned along the path for clamping the products, respectively, during a trimming ope... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6234231 | Device for attaching a supplement to a surface of signatures A device for attaching a supplement to an exposed surface of signatures transported one after another in a transporting direction along a guide arrangement includes a rotating gripping roller for picking up the supplements at the circumference of the rota... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6224050 | Method and apparatus for feeding astride folded signatures to a collection path A method and an apparatus is disclosed for feeding astride signatures (3) to a collection path. The signatures (3) are removed from a magazine (4) with a conveyor drum (6) and transferred to an opening device (16). The transport speed of the signature lif... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6193227 | Continuously feeding sheets with coil unwind control A method of and an apparatus for feeding a processing machine with flat products, such as printed sheets, cards, patterns or the like. Over a conveyor path arranged between a storage unit and the processing machine and forming a product storage unit, the ... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6186500 | Apparatus for feeding printed products to a processing unit An apparatus for feeding printed products to a processing unit includes a rotating conveyor drum which individually pulls the stacked printed products from a magazine; the conveyor drum has on an approximately circular travel path a gripping device formed... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6186494 | Device for depositing printed sheets on a guide A device for placing printed sheets on a guide includes a mechanism for accelerating a printed sheet in an off-transport direction to a transverse velocity before the printed sheet is placed on the guide. The mechanism includes a gripping device for grasp... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6186721 | Device for pressing a book cover onto the adhesive-coated outer surfaces of inner books to be inset into book covers by means of an insetting machine An arrangement for pressing a book cover onto adhesive-coated outer surfaces of an inner book to be inset into a book cover in an insetting machine, moving inner books on saddle plates of a circulating conveyor vertically upwardly, has a pressing device w... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6175775 | Method for optimizing the production output of an apparatus processing flat items A method and an apparatus for optimizing a production output of a processing device for processing flat articles, the processing device including at least one processing arrangement for receiving and processing the flat articles and which has function par... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6161827 | Method of collecting printed products to form final printed products A method and an apparatus for collecting or gathering printed products to form final printed products, such as newspapers, magazines, brochures and/or books, wherein the printed products are moved along supply lines and are supplied to one or more process... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6152683 | Method, apparatus and container for shipping printed matter The invention relates to a method, an apparatus and a container for shipping printed matter. The method of the invention is essentially distinguished in that the printed matter reaches the respective shipping points in returnable containers adapted to its... | 11/28/2000 |
