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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7300371 | Apparatus for deflecting or inverting moving webs A diverting roller has a roller body having a longitudinal axis. A plurality of pairs of pulleys are rotatably mounted on the roller body adjacent a circumference of the roller body. An endless belt is looped around each of the pairs of pulleys in such a fashion tha... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7267255 | Web tracking adjustment device and method through use of a biased gimbal A method and apparatus for web tracking adjustment for a web handling system comprises biasing a steering roller in a gimbal direction, and adjusting the bias to achieve the desired tracking. ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 6955323 | Web guider A web guider comprising a movable section that has an inlet roller for picking up a web, an outlet roller for releasing the web, and a curved rail; and a fixed section that has a guider for guiding the curved rail and a motor for providing a driving force for swingi... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6195112 | Steering apparatus for re-inkable belt Apparatus for color printing on a re-inkable belt, the re-inkable belt being moveable along an endless path and trained about a transport roller and including an ink transfer layer where an ink can be transferred to a moveable receiver and the moveable re... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6135386 | Brand flexible tipping paper guide A brand flexible, fixed tipping paper guide including guide frame; a guide receivable in the guide frame; a register for aligning a first portion of the fame relative to a paper feed path and an adjustable mount operative to adjust a second portion of sai... | 10/24/2000 |
| 5971313 | Apparatus for equalizing tension in a traveling web The present invention provides apparatus for equalizing the tension across the width of a web traveling under tension in a generally flat plane. The apparatus includes a longitudinal extending bladder formed of an elastic material and inflated with a flui... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5921451 | Dryer assembly for supporting and positioning a web The position of a printed web passing through an elongated dryer is shifted laterally during passage of the web through the dryer. A component of the resultant of all of the frictional forces acting on the web is caused to point in the lateral direction o... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5895153 | Mechanism for tracking the belt of a belt fuser A reproduction apparatus where a colorant image is formed on a receiver member, and the colorant image is fixed on the receiver member by a belt fusing apparatus for providing image gloss to such colorant image. The belt fusing apparatus includes a heated... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5813337 | Closed-loop printing control system A system for controlling the lateral position of a web in a web-fed printing press having a printing unit. The web has a series of printed images thereon. The system includes an optical scanner for sensing the lateral position of an image on the web and f... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5794829 | Device for lateral register adjustment of a web of material A device for width of print adjustment of a web of material, particularly a printed web of material, including at least one register correction wheel for deflecting a web of material, the register correction wheel being assigned to the path of the web of ... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5699147 | Paper magazine A paper magazine including a magazine main body in which a photosensitive material is accommodated; a guide member for guiding the photosensitive material to a magazine opening through which the photosensitive material is delivered out to an exterior; at ... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5667123 | Apparatus for correcting zigzag motion of an elongated traveling web An apparatus for correcting zigzag motion of a longitudinally traveling elongated sheet includes a forward signalling sensor on the travel path of the sheet and a first correction mechanism which is on the downstream side of, and is controlled by an open-... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5647118 | Apparatus for automatically attaching items to hang strip An apparatus for automatically opening interdigitated tab fingers formed on a hang strip provides a base onto which an indexing station, a cutting station and an article attachment station are disposed. A supply of hang strip material is provided and is m... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5575414 | Process and device for guiding and keeping a material web spread A process and apparatus for guiding and keeping a material web spread out uses a spreading roll and with contact pressure elements and a control member controlled by a control system monitors the control path in a way such that the spacing of the contact ... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5490459 | Printing press and method for removing ink build-up with sideways web movement A web printing press and a method of reducing ink build-up on a printing cylinder of a web printing press are described. The web is moved sideways, either by web guides or by moving a web roll stand, during a printing cylinder wash operation to aid in rem... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5441190 | Apparatus for displacing a continuous sheet of material An apparatus for displacing a continuous flat sheet of material having a first edge and a second edge, running along a first plane in a first direction which is the direction of its centerline to a parallel but sideways displaced direction in a second pla... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5226577 | Web guide for elongated flexible web An air bar web guide provides lateral adjustment of a running web passing through the guide so that the web exiting the guide is maintained in a constant lateral position. The path length of the web passing through the guide is maintained constant and doe... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5208633 | Belt position sensing for image registration In an imaging device having a belt supporting image on an image supporting surface and moving along an endless path in a process direction, an exposure device for forming images on the image supporting surface, an arrangement is provided to derive informa... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5146651 | Process and apparatus for tow cross-section measurement and control Controlling the cross-sectional characteristics of moving tow lines by providing monitors and positioning devices so as to improve stuffer box crimp uniformity. The mass distribution profile of a filamentary tow band is continuously measured as a function... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5126946 | Ultrasonic edge detector A system for creating a control signal having a value indicative of the position of the lateral edge of a moving web wherein the system creates a succession of ultrasonic pulses from a transmitter, each of the pulses being created at a known transmit time... | 06/30/1992 |
| 5119981 | Web guide apparatus A microprocessor-controlled web guidance system which automatically implements and maintains a proper lateral web alignment of a continuous web in a web printing press. A steering mechanism is provided which is controlled by a microprocessor system which ... | 06/09/1992 |
| 5098507 | Relieved plastic floor tile rolling press with an automatic alignment device A relieved plastic floor tile rolling press having an automatic alignment device comprising a surface roller from which a surface substratum with plane patterns printed thereon is unwound, a pressing roller on which recessed carves shaped the same as the ... | 03/24/1992 |
| 4998117 | Thermal transfer printer In a thermal transfer recording apparatus comprising an ink film coated with a heat-fusion type ink, an ink film supplying roller rotatably mounted at a first support member, an ink film winding roller rotatably mounted at a second support member, and a r... | 03/05/1991 |
| 4991761 | Web guide apparatus A microprocessor-controlled web guidance system which automatically implements and maintains a proper lateral web alignment of a continuous web in a web printing press. A steering mechanism is provided which is controlled by a microprocessor system which ... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4964557 | Bidirectional web guiding system Disclosed is a system for bidirectionally guiding web, such as tape in magnetic tape recording/reproducing apparatus. The system eliminates the necessity for edge guides, reduces stresses in web resulting in longer web life, and effects accurate tracking ... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4960234 | Apparatus for separating webs of material into (two) part webs Packaging machines are often supplied with a web of packaging material of double width. During transport, the web of material (11) is sub-divided into two part webs (12,13) by means of a central longitudinal cut. The exact run of the web of material (11) ... | 10/02/1990 |
| 4932578 | Adjustable guide assembly for moving webs or fabrics An adjustable guide assembly for a moving web or fabric. The guide assembly includes a bearing housing adapted to receive a bearing carrying an axle journal of a web or fabric guide roll and a pair of bellows mounted on opposite sides of the bearing housi... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4893740 | Web tracking mechanism Apparatus for controlling the lateral movement of a travelling web to automatically compensate for web conicity and angular deviation of the web velocity vector. A preferred embodiment of the apparatus comprises a steering roller about which a travelling ... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4848632 | Method for guiding a moving web of material The invention relates to a method of guiding a web of paper or foil material in a web-guiding device, such web having print marks applied to it at least over stretches of the web, as well as to such a web-guiding device with a correcting device, the latte... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4779782 | Guidance device for material in strip form, especially for a sheet metal treatment plant Guidance device for material traveling in strip form, especially for a sheet metal treatment plant, which includes a guidance roller (13) over which the strip (20) passes. This roller is carried by a movable structure (10) itself mounted on a fixed struct... | 10/25/1988 |
| 4760945 | Web-position controller A conveyor belt controller for controlling the variations in the lateral position of a running conveyor belt comprises a regulated stretch of conveyor belt having a guide member, particularly a guide roller, at one end, a controllable guiding mechanism ab... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4760627 | Apparatus for an oscillating pinch roll assembly utilized in the extrusion of blown films In one embodiment, the oscillating pinch roll assembly or web handling apparatus includes a rotatable spindle having an input which accepts the tubular web. A pinch roller is mounted at the input. A plurality of rollers are circumferentially disposed arou... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4739358 | Film processor apparatus A plurality of processing tanks each charged therein with a processing liquid includes plural sets of a pair of feed rollers for continuously passing an exposed film through the processing liquid, and gears are fixed to one shaft ends of the upper rollers... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4674667 | Apparatus for correcting the lateral displacement of a moving metallic sheet Apparatus for correcting the displacement of a metallic sheet during its travelling comprising: a displacement correcting roll having a shaft, a plurality of rotary rings rotatably put on said shaft at suitable intervals as inclined by the same angle in t... | 06/23/1987 |
| 4506782 | Device for longitudinally guiding an endless web A device for guiding an endless belt traveling in a frame of a conveyor comprising a pivot frame of a pair of side members interconnected by at least one cross-member spaced from one end of the side frames, a bearing housing attached to each of the side f... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4477006 | Offset pivot guiding assembly A guide frame has overlying support on a base frame and supports a pair of spaced, parallel guide rollers arranged with their axes extending across the line of travel of a moving web. These rollers receive the traveling web over the surface thereof from a... | 10/16/1984 |
| 4437918 | Method of making a carpet tile A method of making a carpet tile in which a carpet fed from a carpet feed section, a thermoplastic backing composition layer, and a secondary backing fabric fed from a secondary backing fabric feed section are laminated to form a carpet belt material, and... | 03/20/1984 |
| 4421499 | Tube forming shoe and method of forming a flexible web into a shoe An improved film tube forming shoe includes a brake edge having a configuration which is related to the diameter of the shoe, to the film width, and to the diameter of a product to be wrapped in the tube. The shoe is provided with outwardly directed press... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4385716 | Web controlling apparatus An apparatus for controlling an outgoing web leaving an air cushion turning bar, which enables a convenient transport of longitudinally curved webs over such air turning bar. The apparatus comprises at least one axially displaceable roller adapted to be m... | 05/31/1983 |
| 4324488 | Floating edge-follower bordered paper mask A paper mask produces even width borders on bordered photographic prints even if the unexposed photographic print paper is misaligned, angularly mistracking, or wandering in alignment through roll feeding, or if the width of the paper varies. The paper ma... | 04/13/1982 |
