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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7296717 | Method and apparatus for controlling a moving web A method of controlling a moving web in relation to a selected transverse position comprising positioning a first positioning guide proximate a second positioning guide wherein the second positioning guide has a mechanism for positioning the web having minimal backl... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295289 | Continuous paper feed system A paper handler, in combination with a scanning device for seamlessly providing a length of paper to the scanning device. A drag system is also included that contributes to handle the paper handled by the paper handler for providing the seamless continuous paper flo... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7182212 | Floating lifting device The invention relates to a floating lifting device, using two movable lifting structures (13, 14) which can be alternatively engaged with broaden support members (5, 6, 7) of a cable (4). The cable (4) is stored substantially without tens... | 02/27/2007 |
| 6918175 | Supply module for feeding electrical components to an automatic placement device A supply module for feeding electrical components to an automatic component-mounting machine has a locking element which is a piezoceramic bending transducer that extends in the longitudinal direction of the supply module along a supply path for the components. A fr... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6905269 | System and method for continuous label printing A system for continuous printing is disclosed. The system includes an unwind storing a roll of print media; a cutter which receives the print media and which cuts the print media into sheets of variable length; a sheet printer which receives the sheets of print medi... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6799412 | Cottoner apparatus A cottoner having a wadding section forming station, the station having: a carrier, a holder, and a feed mechanism mounted on a base in series. Moving means on the base reciprocate the a carrier toward and away from the feed mechanism. An operating controller on the... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6179190 | Tape feeder of chip mounter A tape feeder of a chip mounter including a frame, a transfer wheel rotatably installed on the frame, for intermittently transferring a chip tape by a predetermined length, a wheel member rotatably installed on the frame, a reel installed coaxially with t... | 01/30/2001 |
| 5753350 | Article labeled by a labeling machine applying a tactilely distinguishable marking Method and apparatus for applying tactilely sensible indicia on articles is disclosed. Articles may be marked with glue droplets from a glue spit gun. Alternatively, labels may be embossed or marked with glue droplets and then applied to articles. The lab... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5669539 | Methods and apparatus for feeding sheet Apparatus for feeding flexible sheet (2) onto an inwardly facing curved surface (6) of an imagesetter comprises a feed system (3,4,7,8) for feeding the sheet from an input side onto and along the surface towards an output side. The feed system is also ada... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5419802 | Electronic component supplying apparatus An apparatus capable of supplying electronic components successively to a loading position of an electronic component mounting machine at a high speed and in a stable manner is disclosed, in which a dancing guide is operatively connected with a feeding un... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5415379 | Pneumatic winch A winch includes a cylinder containing a movable piston to which are respectively mounted a fixed and a movable pulley assembly around which a line to be pulled is entrained. The pulley assemblies are located within the working chamber and the line enters... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5353699 | Harness producing apparatus and method The invention aims to correctly apply a distinctive mark at a given position of a harness and simplify a construction of a harness producing apparatus. A cable path length adjusting mechanism 100 sets a cable path length from a cutting position of a cutte... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5328073 | Film registration and ironing gate assembly A film registration and ironing gate assembly has a gate with a positioning location or aperture for focal positioning of an image frame of a strip film with edge perforations. Undersized first and second pins enter a pair of transversely aligned perforat... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5328074 | Film registration gate assembly A film registration gate assembly has a gate with focal positioning location for focal positioning of an image frame of a strip film with edge perforations. Undersized first and second pins enter a pair of transversely aligned perforations to register the... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5094656 | Servo drive bag machine A machine for the continuous production of plastic bags utilizes a servo drive motor to drive the machines film web draw roll assembly and through a seal roll index gear also to drive a seal roll of the machine in coordination with the servo driven draw r... | 03/10/1992 |
| 5020403 | Web feeding, cutting and dispensing machine A web feeding, cutting and dispensing machine includes a pneumatic cylinder for moving a hot wire to cut measured-length sheets from web stock. A pneumatic clamp cylinder moves a clamp bar for momentarily clamping the web during cutting. Upon pressing a s... | 06/04/1991 |
| 5000727 | Servo driven draw roll for bag machine A machine for the continuous production of plastic bags utilizes a servo drive motor to drive the machines film web draw roll assembly and through a seal roll index gear also to drive a seal roll of the machine in coordination with the servo driven draw r... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4984914 | Multi-task printer A feeding device for computer printers and the like comprising two platens each provided with respective pairs of drive sprockets and rotatably mounted on a common drive shaft, together with clutch means for selectably connecting said drive shaft to rotat... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4887778 | Feeder drive assembly and replaceable section for tape supplying and cover peeling A cassette-like supply and peel assembly of a tape feeder, comprising the support and guide for an electrical component supply tape and the mechanism for peeling a cover from the tape, is removably interconnectable with a drive assembly which provides mot... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4869393 | Method and apparatus for peeling a covering tape from a component supply tape A top cover is peeled from a component supply tape by passing the cover around a guide surface and in a peeling direction generally reverse to the feeding direction of the supply tape while moving the guide surface in the peeling direction in order to min... | 09/26/1989 |
| 4848630 | Method and apparatus for positioning a web of material in stepwise transporation thereof For accurate positioning of a web of material which is to be transported stepwise by at least first and second feed means through processing stations disposed therebetween, the feed means are controlled by a programmable computer which stores a value repr... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4832244 | Multiple sheet feed apparatus for a printer A multiple paper sheet feed apparatus, suitable for use with a printer, comprises a plurality of sheet feed mechanisms each of which comprises a sheet feed roller and a clutch spring which selectively assumes either a first operation state for rotatively ... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4832243 | Transfer apparatus for belt-like materials A transfer apparatus for transferring a belt-like material such as carcass plies, belt plies, inner liners and the like comprises an awaiting conveyor, a movable conveyor provided on a downstream side of the awaiting conveyor and movable in directions sub... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4813355 | Hand-held printing and labeling device There is disclosed a hand-held device for optionally printing and dispensing a web of tags or pressure sensitive labels, or printing on pressure sensitive labels and applying the printed labels to merchandise. Also disclosed are composite webs of pressure... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4779781 | Method and an arrangement for the feeding of a material web A method and arrangement for severing packaging blanks, including a drive roller, a register roller at a location downstream of the drive roller and high-speed driving rollers downstream of the register roller for removing severed web portions. The drive ... | 10/25/1988 |
| 4775088 | Intermittent web feeding apparatus An intermittent web feeding apparatus for intermittently feeding fixed length of a web of material during one cycle of a feeding operation by the cooperative operation of a pair of feed rollers for unwinding a web of material from a roll of web material a... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4735341 | Feeder for electrical component supply tapes In a preferred embodiment, the supply tape is stepped to present each pocket at a pick-up area for removal of a component. Each pocket is opened in turn during the indexing step that positions it at the pick-up area, and a shutter is moved over the pick-u... | 04/05/1988 |
| 4729272 | Wire rope salvaging apparatus A wire rope salvaging apparatus provides a frame which supports an intermittent feed mechanism which moves wire rope to be cut a small length at a time as defined by the stroke of the feed mechanism. A blade also mounted on the frame cuts the wire rope at... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4702731 | Thermoplastic bag machine Disclosed is a mechanism, associated with a thermoplastic bag making machine, for preparing a strip of thermoplastic to produce bags having the upper edges of the bag mouth formed in a sinusodial shape such that the peak of such shape is substantially equ... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4694982 | Side by side air feeder for advancing stock to a power press and the like A pneumatic feeder is disclosed having twin feed slides axially reciprocable in side by side relation along parallel axes for intermittently advancing strip stock to a downstream machine for further processing. Each feed slide has clamps which serve to ad... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4681210 | Apparatus for feeding bars through a bending or like processing station Apparatus for feeding a bar or several bars in a vertical pile along a predetermined horizontal path extending through a bending station, where the bars are bent into desired shape. A first conveyor has mounted thereto a first gripper assembly, which rele... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4641771 | Method and apparatus for supplying wrapping material to cigarette packing and like machines Wrapping material which is supplied from a reel to the intermittently actuated withdrawing tongs of a cigarette packing machine is looped in a magazine adjacent to the tongs and is stabilized against fluttering and other stray movements by a pneumatic con... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4620655 | Apparatus for supplying taped parts An apparatus for use in a system for mounting taped electronic parts on a predetermined portions of ceramics substrates and adapted for supplying the parts to a predetermined portion of the system. The apparatus has a slide table equipped with a tape pay-... | 11/04/1986 |
| 4589315 | Wire rope salvaging apparatus A wire rope salvaging apparatus provides a frame which supports an intermittent feed mechanism which moves wire rope to be cut a small length at a time as defined by the stroke of the feed mechanism. A blade also mounted on the frame cuts the wire rope at... | 05/20/1986 |
| 4577791 | Gripper feed advance mechanism for a press or the like The invention relates to a gripper or clamp feed advance mechanism for sheet metal bands or profiled forms on presses, having two feed advance clamps or grippers on the feed-side of the press and having a spacing therebetween in the direction of adjustmen... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4456226 | Traction device A traction device for causing stepwise relative displacement between the device and an elongate member in the form of a cable (6) comprises a stationary clamp (5) and a movable clamp (3) which is displaced by a cylinder and piston unit (1, 2). Both clamps... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4422583 | Wire feeder A wire feed control device having driven rolls to pull wire from a reel type wire source, the driven rolls pass the wire through a housing, with the wire coacting with a control to the roller drive so that as the wire is accumulated in the housing, the co... | 12/27/1983 |
| 4406390 | Continuous motion, constant velocity web feeding apparatus This invention includes apparatus providing for continuous motion and constant velocity to a traveling web usually including at least one film. A pair of grippers are arranged to grasp the film and are alternately actuated to advance the web. Each of the ... | 09/27/1983 |
| 4399937 | High speed dual slide stock feeder An improved high speed pneumatic feeder for a punch press or the like wherein a novel combination of a pair of feed slides and a stock guide means extending longitudinally between said feed slides serves to prevent very thin strip stock from buckling whil... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4364503 | Web feeding method and apparatus for a printer There is disclosed web feeding apparatus and method for feeding a web from a web roll to a utilization device. The paying out of the web from the web roll into a U-shaped buffer loop is assisted by a pair of cooperating feed rolls which engage the web alo... | 12/21/1982 |
