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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7422132 | Vacuum belt conveyor with lateral guidance for a web forming machine A vacuum belt conveyor for a web forming machine intended for transporting a web threading tail (24) has lateral guidance. The vacuum belt conveyor has a frame construction (16) with two rolls (17, 18), an air-permeable belt loop (21) and... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7389900 | Floating wire guides A wire guide, for a drive assembly of a wire feeding assembly, of a welding system, has an elongate body which has with an outer surface, a length, and first and second ends. An elongate bore extends along the length of, and through, the elongate body. An aperture e... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7367088 | Apparatus at a carding machine having a web removal and silver formation device In an apparatus at a carding machine having a web removal and sliver formation device, there are provided, following on from the web removal device, a web funnel and a pair of draw-off rollers, which are arranged to pivot together with a rotary mounting. In order to... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7347398 | Device for transferring a foil matter from outside to inside of a machine Apparatus for transferring a foil matter from outside to inside of a machine. The apparatus has a longitudinal axis. The machine includes a frame comprising a first wall and a second wall. A window in the second wall. The outside and inside areas are separated by th... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7328541 | Apparatus and method for controlling position of an edge of an advancing web of flexible material A method comprises pulling a continuous web to advance the web along a path of conveyance and to create tension in a lengthwise portion of the web; manipulating the web to cause the portion of the web at a point along the path to have a non-uniform tension across th... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7311234 | Vectored air web handling apparatus A web control device is provided as a generally cylindrical hollow bar having a plurality of holes disposed thereon. Each of the plurality of holes is capable of providing fluid contact between the central portion and the outer portion of web control device. The web... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7275404 | Method and an apparatus to control the lateral motion of a long metal bar being formed by a mechanical process such as rolling or drawing An adjustable guide, includes two or more mechanisms each having a rotatable retaining element containing a retaining groove with a variable radius in its perimeter surface. The grooves form a guidance path to control the lateral, i.e. non-axial, motion of a long ba... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7272966 | Multiple level entry guide for a roll forming machine An entry guide for a roll forming machine having fixed stop members for the different widths of sheet metal material which can be accommodated by the roll forming machine. The fixed stop members are offset in the vertical direction. Accordingly, when the roll formin... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7204446 | Data storage tape guiding systems using tapered guides The invention is directed to arrangements of tapered data storage tape guides which can improve the guiding of data storage tape. Tapered data storage tape guides having specific sizes relative to the data storage tape are also disclosed. The tapered data storage ta... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7204445 | Guide arrangements for data storage tape guiding systems The invention is directed to arrangements of tape guides which can improve the guiding of data storage tape. Tape guides having specific sizes relative to the data storage tape are also disclosed. The disclosed tape guides and arrangements of tape guides can improve... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7201343 | Carrier-less patch protection including cassette and separation device The present invention is a laminate media, in the form of a continuous strip of carrier-less, pre-cut plastic patch protections, connected by perforations. The invention further describes both a method for separating the patches from each other by stressing the perf... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7201300 | Device for deflecting a web A device for deflecting a web has at least one turning bar (1; 2) that can be shifted. A first turning bar holding device (11a, 11b; 11a, 11b, 11c) is connected with an axial end of the tur... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7201822 | Method of placing a material transversely on a moving web Disclosed herein is a method by which a material may be placed onto a moving web in a transverse orientation. At least two assemblies, which carry either a first and a second web or a single web, periodically overlap each other in an alternating fashion such that a ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7182020 | Devices for guiding a partial width web, guide element for guiding a partial width web and processing machine comprising said devices A web is guided in a processing machine by the use of a device which includes a regular device and at least one further web guiding element. These cooperate to subject the web to an offset or to a change in direction. The regular device and the at least one further ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7180708 | Stationary tape guide with spring arrangement and ceramic guide portion mating with plastic mounting portion A tape drive is provided having a pair of stationary guide assemblies disposed symmetrically about the magnetic read/write head. Each of the stationary guide assemblies has a mounting portion and a separate guide surface portion mounted on the mounting portion. The ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7166191 | Curl straightening method for image receiving paper for sublimation dye transfer and curl straightening device therefor To provide a curl straightening method for image receiving paper for sublimation dye transfer, which is capable of realizing a smaller roll core diameter of the roll paper. The curl of an image receiving paper 100 for sublimation dye transfer having stiffness... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7073747 | Guiding roller and adjusting method A guiding roller, that is used to turn a web of material, has a jacket surface provided with holes over at least a portion of its periphery. An inner surface of the guiding roller is provided with compressed air. A piston is axially displaceable in the roller inner ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7050261 | Magnetic recording tape drive with tape guide assembly having dampening disk A tape drive is provided having a pair of stationary guide assemblies disposed symmetrically about the magnetic read/write head. Each of the stationary guide assemblies has a mounting portion and a separate guide surface portion mounted on the mounting portion. The ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7029001 | Form having abutting tape-interconnected substrates and method of making same A business form product (10) broadly including a printable sheet (12), a magnetic sheet (14) aligned edge-to-edge with the printable sheet (12) to define a seam (16), and a heat-resistant tape (18) applied over the seam (... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6993282 | Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet which is again conveyed to an image forming section passes through a re-feeding passage. A reference member is provided on one end of the re-feeding passage which is perpendicular to a sheet-conveying direction, and is provided with a plurality of reference ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6923402 | Tape guide post mechanism A tape guide post mechanism for guiding running of a tape includes: a post arm, the post arm including a tape guide post, around which the tape is looped at a predetermined angular distance, and which guides running of the tape, and a hole; an arm shaft which engage... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6796524 | Reversible angle bar for a web printing press A reversible angle bar device for a web printing press having a web with an entering web centerline has a support, a first angle bar portion angled with respect to the first entering web centerline on a first side of the entering web centerline, and a second angle b... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6635111 | Contactless guide system for continuous web Known devices for contactlessly guiding or treating continuous lines of material (1) have one chamber (2). A supply device (3) for a gaseous fluid is connected to said chamber (2), which has a gas-permeable wall (4). The outer surface (5) of said wall (4)... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6595465 | Turn bar assembly for redirecting a continuous paper web Two methods for redirecting a continuous paper web with a face up orientation from a first direction to a second direction with either a face up orientation or an opposing face down orientation are provided. The directions correspond to paper processing d... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6575399 | Web control matrix A device for routing and redirecting a continuous web of sheet type material under tension, such as an endless roll of paper, from one processing or handling device to another, comprises a series of upright supports defining a polygon such as a square, an... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6554223 | Apparatus and a method for aligning a web An apparatus and method for aligning a continuous web of material with an entry point of a machine that utilizes the web as a source material. The web may include pre-processed materials that may be thicker than conventional webs and/or have uneven thickn... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6536645 | Image forming apparatus capable of smoothly feeding large-size sheet into main body An image forming apparatus including a scanner, which includes a guide member provided at an inlet of a clearance formed below a cover of the scanner. The guide member has a substantially pentagonal shape as viewed from the top, and may also include a not... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6502735 | Device for the suspension guidance of a travelling web A device (100) for the suspension guidance of a travelling paper or paper-like web (B) by air and which is especially useful for deflecting a damp travelling paper web. The device has a plurality of air ducts (13) extending over the width of the web and b... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6488230 | Stationary web spreader Bowed spreader apparatus for laterally stretching, or stressing, a web of material carried in a selected direction along a conveyor path includes an elongate stationary spreader bar extending laterally of the path. The spreader bar has a web support face ... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6471191 | Cable guide arrangement having a cable guide channel arranged in a detachable insert A cable guide arrangement for a cable winch has a housing to be mounted relative to a cable winch such that a first end of housing faces the cable winch and a second end of the housing faces away from the cable winch. A cable guide channel penetrates the ... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6382100 | Web guide roller, and printing press incorporating the same A roller assembly positioned downstream of a printing station in a web-fed rotary printing press for pneumatically guiding a web of paper after it has been printed upon, without the risk of smearing the printings. The assembly includes a roller in the for... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6295181 | Tape bearing surface with reduce tape contact and method of making same A tape bearing surface for a tape that reduces tape surface contact near the edge, while minimizing variation in cross-web tension, and a method of making the same. The tape surface piece has a longitudinal axes defining a tape path and a lateral axis is ... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6290170 | Strip guiding device A strip guiding device for guiding a strip longitudinally along a feed path has a limiting mechanism for limiting the strip transversely at opposite side edges thereof to cause the strip to pass through a predetermined position in the feed path. The limit... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6250624 | Extension guide apparatus An extension guide unit 30 is provided on a side portion of a recording medium conveying passage. An extension guide 36 is held in a wound state in an extension guide holder 31 of the extension guide unit 30. In order to convey a recording medium, the ext... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6230954 | Paper feeding device and printer having the paper feeding device A paper feeding device has a first guide portion through which paper having a preselected width and thickness is introduced, a second guide portion for receiving the paper introduced into the first guide portion, and at least one connecting guide portion ... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6230478 | Differential length metering apparatus and method for the cabling of insulated conductors with fillers using the double twist process Apparatus and method for manufacturing helically wound insulated conductors with filament fillers includes first and second payoff stations for paying off a plurality of insulated conductors and elongate filaments of filler materials. These cable componen... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6224010 | Apparatus and method for dispensing paper toweling from a roll of paper toweling Dispenser apparatus for dispensing paper toweling from a roll of paper toweling includes a paper toweling feed roller and a guide partially surrounding the feed roller having a curved guide surface spaced from the paper toweling feed roller. The feed roll... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6209304 | Spinning device A device for producing spun yarn by means of an airflow acting in the area between a sliver guide and a spindle (13) on fibers of a non-twisted sliver (10) drafted and delivered by a drafting arrangement in order to twist the fibers. Thereafter, the slive... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6149045 | Paper sheet supplying apparatus having a raised central region for preventing a paper sheet from skewing as the sheet is fed A paper sheet supplying apparatus comprises a transfer guide unit, a register unit and a paper sheet sending-out unit. The supplying apparatus supplies a paper sheet through the transfer guide unit to the register unit from the paper sheet sending-out uni... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6113026 | Bow spreader bar A bow spreader bar employed in a plastic film processing arrangement incorporates an extruded member and a low-friction plastic wear cover. The bow spreader bar is positioned in advance of the film take-up roll and presses into the film web to eliminate f... | 09/05/2000 |
