Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7396007 | Positioning device for a rotationally displaceable positioning element A positioning device for a positioning element, which is rotationally displaceable about a first axis, including a positioning member engaged with the positioning element. The positioning member is rotatable about a second axis perpendicular to and spaced from the f... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7320481 | Handbook and method for making same An easy care handbook constituted by a bound booklet containing recording pages and private information pages can be prepared by a simple method. The recording pages of the bound booklet are common for all users so that the bound booklet can be made in volume at a l... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7284750 | Method and apparatus for handling inserts for printed materials An apparatus for handling inserts for printed materials has been developed. The apparatus includes a printed material conveyor that includes a support post and a gripper. The conveyor receives and supports the printed material from below. After an insert has been pl... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7014181 | Sheet foldover apparatus A method and apparatus for folding over a portion of at least one top sheet of a stack of interfolded sheets. The foldover apparatus includes a conveyor adapted to move the stack in the downstream direction, a vacuum assembly adapted to separate at least a portion o... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6764073 | Adjustable gripping device for adjustable sheet-receiving pockets and method for adjusting sheet-receiving pockets An adjustable gripper system for releasably holding at least one sheet against a surface includes an adjustment body, a gripper connected thereto for holding the sheet against the surface, and a cam follower to be actuated by a cam. The cam follower is connected to ... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6494661 | Device and method for providing a cover for a book A method for covering a book includes delivering a book into a pocket, delivering an inverted cover for the book into the pocket, the cover having a first side and a second side, the first side of the cover contacting a side of the book in the pocket, and... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6299154 | Device designed to open at least one page of a publication in order to introduce printed inserts A device designed to open at least one page of a publication in order to introduce printed inserts, fitted in an insert feeding and/or packaging machine, which includes a feed table for publications associated with a product feeding conveyor, at least one... | 10/09/2001 |
| 5823320 | Inserter for flat products A device for transporting flat products consisting of feeders for introduction of flat products into openable pockets. The pockets move in a closed path and each receives one or more inserts. Specific and preferred pocket conveyor, sprocket, and divider d... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5769405 | Device for feeding a gathering section of a gather-stitcher A device for feeding a gathering section of a gather-stitcher includes a rotatingly driven conveyor drum which pulls printed sheets off a stack of a printed sheet magazine with the fold in front. The printed sheets are conveyed around the circumference of... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5560594 | Apparatus for processing printed products Stacks of part-products are arranged on the circumference of a rotating processing drum that has radial receiving compartments that open along the drum circumference. Rotatable rollers are provided in the region of the introduction opening of each receivi... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5492316 | Method and apparatus for opening signature sheets A method and apparatus (10) is provided for opening sheets of a signature (7) preparatory to its transport to a thread sewing machine. A plurality of suction plates (30, 32, 34, 36) are spaced from a conveying surface (12), each suction plate having a wor... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5474285 | Apparatus for opening and further transporting printed products An apparatus for opening and transporting printed products having transporting clips, driven in conveying direction to hold the printed products at their fold. Below a conveying device there is a supporting element, which supports the printed products in ... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5409205 | Apparatus and method of feeding paper from the bottom of a stack using a reciprocating separator A paper feeder for a printing and bookbinding system incorporates a top load, bottom feed hopper having a cyclically operated platform for transporting paper signatures from a stack to a conveyor. The platform utilizes spaced supports of a high friction, ... | 04/25/1995 |
| 4723770 | Straight-line insert machine A straight-line insert machine for inserting materials into a newspaper jacket is disclosed. The jacket is positioned in a moving pocket which is hinged but closed at the bottom such that when the pocket opens, as vacuum is applied to the walls of the poc... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4679783 | Apparatus for opening signatures to be supplied to binding machines Apparatus for opening signatures comprises a conveyor having a concave section onto which, in use, the signatures to be opened are deposited. Above this concave section of the conveyor there is disposed a series of rotating suckers mounted on a movable fr... | 07/14/1987 |
| 4582313 | Vacuum block document feeder for inserting machine An improvement in a document feeder in an inserting machine, the inserting machine having a transport deck and being capable of nesting a plurality of sheet materials between the front and back covers of a booklet, and wherein the document feeder includes... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4496141 | Method and apparatus for opening folded newspapers A device for opening newspapers located within individual pockets of an endless conveyor for receiving inner sections. The folded edge of the newspapers are located at the bottom of the pockets formed by first and second panel members directed upwardly an... | 01/29/1985 |
| 4403770 | Apparatus for collating signatures A signature collating machine having a plurality of sequentially situated signature supply stations whose common floor rises via an electronic sensor to maintain signature stacks at operable heights. Above each supply station is a suction delivery assembl... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4135708 | High speed insert handling mechanism and method The invention is a high speed feeding method and apparatus for inserting (or stuffing) products having a shorter flap portion folded over a longer body portion, which products may comprise single or multiple page signatures, cards, envelopes, or the like,... | 01/23/1979 |
| 4134579 | Card inserter for binding machine or the like A card inserter for inserting post cards in a series of bound volumes in motion in a production line which includes a pair of horizontally reciprocated feed plates and associated hoppers arranged on opposite sides of a substantially vertical feed plane. A... | 01/16/1979 |
| 4046367 | Modified high speed paper inserting apparatus and method An improved high speed in-line inserting method and apparatus which allows a modular construction and greater simplicity due to reliance on mechanical supporting and gripping procedures. Folded newspapers or other signatures are carried rectilinearly alon... | 09/06/1977 |
| 3988016 | High speed in-line paper inserting apparatus and method Apparatus and method for high speed in-line paper inserting, primarily for insertion of supplements and the like into newspapers, wherein newspaper jackets and inserts are advanced and manipulated in a straight line motion. The system includes means for r... | 10/26/1976 |
