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Mouthguard made at least partially from an edible candy
A mouthguard includes a U-shaped upper bite plate which removably fits over upper teeth of a person, with the entire upper bite plate being made from a soft, deformable and edible gummi candy.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7371041 | Assembly station with rotatable turret which forms and unloads a completed stack of articles Method and apparatus for forming and unloading a completed stack of articles. An assembly station includes a rotatable turret from which at least one stacker arm projects. The turret rotates to each of a number of article loading positions to sequentially load artic... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7320463 | Device for feeding a processing section A device for feeding a processing section with printed products includes a magazine and a feeding mechanism that includes a gripping mechanism and a conveying mechanism for removing the printed products from the magazine and feeding them to the processing section. T... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7318587 | Method of, and apparatus for, stabilizing and positioning sheet-like articles The invention relates to a method of, and an apparatus for, stabilizing and positioning sheet like articles (16), in particular printed products. In order to prevent the products from buckling and fanning out, the position of an edge (20) of the produc... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7222850 | Transporting an essentially sheet-like element, particularly in a printing press Transporting an essentially sheet-like element, particularly for transporting a sheet of printing material in a printing press, in which the sheet-like element is picked up in the area of its leading edge by at least one rotating transport at a pickup site, transpor... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7201089 | Feeder, gatherer-stitcher and method for index punching A feeder for feeding flat products to a conveyor device includes a magazine for storing the products, a separating device for separating the products from the magazine and a device for producing an index in the products. A gatherer-stitcher includes a plurality of t... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7073785 | Apparatus for processing printed products The processing conveyer device (10) has a plurality of receiving elements (18) that are arranged one behind the other and are driven in a circulatory direction, said elements having a support element and a base element for supporting the printing produ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7063313 | Device for holding printed products A device for holding printed products fed in variations of at least collecting and collating feed modes. The device includes a holding element for holding products fed in different feed modes. The holding element, in turn, includes a deflection element which, in a p... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7033123 | Booklet maker A booklet maker, including a pivotable collecting device including two supporting sides formed as a saddle shape, and a rotatable transferring device including a displaceable clamping component, where the transferring device delivers a folded sheet material to the c... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7007951 | Transport disc for an opening device of a printed sheet feeder A transport disc for an opening device of a printed sheet feeder is arranged on a first opening drum of the opening device and has at least one outer elastic support. The outer elastic support cooperates with a securing disc of a second opening drum of the opening d... | 03/07/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6705982 | Pre-fold sword insertion device A folder includes a first cutting device for partially cutting a web of material, a former to fold the web of material, so as to form a folded web, a stationary signature opening device located between sides of the passing folded web, and a second cutting device loc... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6572093 | Gather-stitcher machine and method for producing a header index for print materials of papers which are filed by means of a gather-stitcher machine Gather-stitcher machine for joining and stapling a plurality of stacks of sheets of a magazine, and method for producing a thumb-tab index on magazines to be stapled by means of the gather-stitcher machine. In order to make it possible for a thumb-tab ind... | 06/03/2003 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6283466 | Device for producing printed materials in several parts An apparatus for producing multi-part printed products comprising an upwardly open V-shaped continuous conveying channel (1), and a V-shaped processing channel (2) arranged above the conveying channel (1). A plurality of supply locations (11-17) are arran... | 09/04/2001 |
| 5893824 | Transfer drum assembly for signature handling A signature handling apparatus includes a rotatable gripper drum having at least one gripper for gripping the folded leading edges of signatures. A rotatable transfer drum assembly transfers signatures from the gripper drum to an opener drum. The transfer... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5758871 | Signature collating apparatus A signature handling apparatus includes a plurality of saddles and a plurality of signature openers. Each signature opener is associated with a respective saddle. The signature openers move together with the saddles in a first direction along an endless p... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5657978 | Apparatus for producing multiple-part printed products An apparatus for producing printed products comprising a plurality of part-products, for example newspapers, periodicals and the like, includes a processing drum which is divided into portions and is driven in rotation. The processing drum is provided wit... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5354043 | Process and device for opening folded print products Printed products are transported in the direction of conveyance suspended, held by their fold, from transporting clamps of a conveying device. The end area of the printed products rests on a supporting mechanism and the uppermost product part protrudes wi... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5292111 | Method and apparatus for opening folded printed products having distinct sheet opening and hold-open means A conveying device having individually controllable grippers conveys the printed products in the conveying direction to a straightening station where the printed products are aligned. Subsequently, for opening, the folded printed products are fed to an op... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5248135 | Method of, and apparatus for, opening flexible products folded off-center Folded printed products, held at the fold thereof by clamps, are fed to an opening device. This opening device comprises grippers, each gripper having a stationary gripper jaw and a movable gripper jaw which delimit a slide gap in the closed position of t... | 09/28/1993 |
| 5137409 | Joining together of printed partial products The process makes it possible to gather together and detachably connect two or more partial products (2a, 2b). The resulting end product can be broken down again into partial products without destroying them. The connection between the partial products is... | 08/11/1992 |
| 4989850 | Signature machines Signature machine for printing an inside page of a signature as it moves through the machine from a signature supply source to the signature gatherer, made possible by positioning an ink jet printer in a raceway between the supply source and the gatherer.... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4901996 | Apparatus and method for feeding sheet material from a stack for a collating conveyor An apparatus for removing signatures from a hopper includes a rotatable drum. A first feeder mounted within the drum removes a first signature from the hopper during rotation of the drum through a predetermined acruate distance. A second feeder mounted wi... | 02/20/1990 |
| 4875669 | Signature gathering machines Signature gathering machine in which signatures are extracted by an extracting cylinder successively from a hopper, released at a register gauge, opened by grippers on opposed opening cylinders and then those grippers are opened to drop the signature onto... | 10/24/1989 |
| 4869484 | Signature opening apparatus A signature opening apparatus for receiving one signature at a time from a source of signatures fed to the apparatus in a steady stream. The apparatus includes an opening drum mounted for rotation on a shaft for delivering opened signatures to a continuou... | 09/26/1989 |
| 4844433 | Packer box undersized signature handling kit A kit for handling undersized signatures in a packer box having a signature feeding station, a main drum assembly, a delivery drum assembly and a continuous signature carrying chain. The kit includes a pair of register stop extensions adapted to be dispos... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4811938 | Apparatus for collating folded printed signatures Infeed devices serve to individually place in straddling formation printed signatures or sheets upon collating conveyors equipped with pusher entrainment members. There are provided a plurality of mutually parallelly extending collating conveyors arranged... | 03/14/1989 |
| 4491311 | Apparatus for opening folded sheets using accelerating and deaccelerating spreader elements Apparatus for opening up folded sheets has a rotary withdrawing conveyor which extracts successive folded sheets from a stack and places successive withdrawn sheets into a path between two rotary spreading elements in such a way that the front edges of th... | 01/01/1985 |
| 4299378 | Apparatus for singularizing and opening stacked folded sheets Apparatus for singularizing and opening stacked folded sheets, wherein one marginal portion of each sheet opposite the fold projects beyond the adjacent marginal portion, has a magazine for a stack of such sheets, a rotary drum which withdraws successive ... | 11/10/1981 |
| 4180255 | Wiper system inserter A signature inserter for a saddle gathering machine including a rotatable extractor drum for extracting a signature from a hopper and carrying it to a stop position on the periphery of the drum. A reciprocating dipper contacts the lower cut edge of the si... | 12/25/1979 |
| 3949978 | Collator for printed sheets A collator of the inserter type is especially constructed to receive a shingled stream of printed sheets from a feeding apparatus such as that of U.S. Pat. No. 3,522,943 and to afford positive feed of printed sheets from the hopper to the gatherer chain. ... | 04/13/1976 |
