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...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8100397 | Feeder with adjustable time cycle and method A timed feeder for feeding corrugated boards to nip rolls of a box finishing machine. An indexing drive mechanism, driven by a computer-controlled servo motor, activates a feed member and has a feed phase when it drives the board to the nip rolls, and a dwell phase ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 7967285 | Card sending device A card sending device for use with cards may include a card storage part in which a plurality of cards are stacked and stored, a gate through which a card is capable of passing to an outside of the card storage part, a sending pawl which is capable of engaging with ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7731171 | Paper feeding device and image forming apparatus As one embodiment, a paper feeding device is provided with a pickup roller for pulling out an uppermost positioned sheet of loaded sheets, and a paper feeding roller for transporting the sheet pulled out by the pickup roller. Spanning between the pickup roller and t... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7635124 | Feeder with adjustable time cycle and method A timed feeder for feeding corrugated boards to nip rolls of a box finishing machine. A feed member is raised to the feed path to engage and drive a board to the nip rolls and then lowered away from the feed path until the next cycle. An indexing drive mechanism, dr... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7552918 | Vertical justification system A device and system for registering or justifying product such as mail pieces in a vertical position for future processing of such mail pieces. The system includes a mounting block having an angled bore and a driven alignment mechanism mounted within the angled bore... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7331576 | Feeder device having increased media capacity and multiple media thickness feed capability and associated method A feeder device is provided, comprising a drive mechanism for driving a media unit in a feed direction, the media unit being provided from a stack of media units by a hopper including upstream and downstream hopper members. A directing member associated with the ups... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7303188 | Document separator A document separator for use in a document processing machine. The document separator has a flexible loop of material adjacent to a document transport mechanism so that it holds one or more documents back from being transported along a transport path while allowing ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7278634 | Device for controlling printed products A tape transport system for printed products includes a tape having a tape width, a pulley, and a lever arm supporting the pulley, the lever arm having a first side and a second side. The pulley has a first section disposed on the first side of the lever arm and a s... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7237485 | Print supply monitoring An identification card printer includes a card input, a card transport, a printhead, and a card output. The card transport is configured to feed a card from the card input along a print path. The printhead is positioned below the print path and is configured to prin... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7210570 | Device for the dynamic weighing of postal items The device for dynamically weighing postal items (P) comprises a plate (1) floatingly mounted on a weight sensor, and a conveyor belt mounted on the plate to move the postal items in a longitudinal direction (D) of the conveyor. The conveyor has two parallel ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7154519 | Printer and ribbon cartridge A printer includes a substrate input, a substrate transport, a printhead, a removable ribbon cartridge, a ribbon cartridge receiver, and a substrate output. The substrate transport is configured to feed a substrate from the substrate input along a print path. The pr... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7063656 | Folder with telescoping stacker and set feeder A folder includes a set feeder that by-passes the folder in-feed station. Sets of multiple sheets are directed directly to the folder processing station, such as a folder station. The set feeder comprises a guide mechanism that guides a set through a cover opening a... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7018117 | Identification card printer ribbon cartridge A ribbon cartridge includes a cartridge housing, a supply spool, a take-up spool, and a supply of ribbon. The cartridge housing includes a supply spool enclosure, a take-up spool enclosure, a pair of ribbon guides, and a gap between the ribbon guides and the supply ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7017900 | Transporting an essentially sheet-shaped element, particularly a print material sheet Transporting an essentially sheet-shaped element, particularly for transporting a print material sheet in a printing press in which the sheet-shaped element is taken hold of by at least one rotating transport having at least one mouth-like receptacle for introducing... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7004461 | Device for isolating and feeding the lowest sheet in each case from a stack In a device for isolating and feeding the lowest sheet (1) in each case from a stack (2), with pushing-out elements (9) which grip the rear edge (3a, 3b) of the sheet (1) and transport it through, under a front... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7004463 | Conveying arrangement for processing printed material to printed products A conveying arrangement for processing printed material to printed products has a conveying member supplying printed material and an intermediate conveying device with compartments rotating about an axis of rotation and formed by two opposed adjustable plates. The c... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6866258 | Feeder-singulator for articles having intermixed thickness and shape Two belt type singulators are used in apparatus which feeds and singulates stacked articles which have varying thickness and shape. The singulators form tandem, spaced apart singulator nips with a transport belt. Each singulator belt has a downwardly sloped undersid... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6708970 | Supply device for a machine working cardboard sheets A supply device for a machine working cardboard sheets. At least one conveying unit for the conveyance one by one of the sheets. A hold-down stop for preventing conveyance of a pile of the sheets above the conveying unit while permitting conveyance of the bottom she... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6601842 | Sheet transfer apparatus and image reading apparatus A sheet transfer apparatus for an image reading apparatus includes a sheet supply tray for storing a sheet; a sheet supply device for drawing out the sheet on the sheet supply tray; a transfer device for receiving the sheet from the sheet supply means and... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6402134 | Process and apparatus for attaching flat products A method is proposed for separating flat, stacked products, which are preferably fed individually, at a distance from one another and lying one behind another, to a further processing process, first of all the uppermost product being lifted, at least part... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6375182 | Feeding machine A feeding machine for feeding envelopes into a station for further individual handling. A stack of envelopes is held in a downwardly inclined feed channel. The stack of envelopes is transformed into a layered stream by an upward inclined discharge channel... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6186493 | Apparatus and method for supplying a plurality of box sheets along belts at predetermined intervals An apparatus and method for supplying a plurality of box sheets comprising first belts which are movable in a predetermined direction, second belts which are also movable in the predetermined direction of the first belts, a shutter located above at least ... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6123330 | Method of feeding flat mail for separation by suction of material input The invention relates to a method for the steady feeding of flat items for separation by suction of material input into a distribution unit by using a feeding device, preferably comprising a separating blade and a conveyor belt underneath it. In accordanc... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6113095 | Belt supporting device and automatic document feeding apparatus using the device A belt supporting device includes a first support member for supporting a belt pulley, the member having a smaller width than that of the outer peripheral surface of the pulley, an endless belt wound on the pulley, a second support member for forming betw... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6006495 | Automatic bag-dispenser An automatic bag-dispenser which includes a supply of bags (30) arranged flat in a stack (3), and two rotary devices (1, 2) which have parallel axes, are located adjacent each other and are covered with a non-slip material. The rotary devices (1, 2) rotat... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5947466 | Continuous belt drive paper feed system A paper feed apparatus for low profile printer including a rotatable paper feed drive shaft which is mounted for rotation in a printer housing which supports a first belt drive pulley or roller. The belt drive pulley engages a continuous belt mounted ther... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5913512 | Device for separating flat objects which are supplied in stacked form A device for separating flat objects includes an endless conveyer belt on which the flat objects are supplied standing on edge and forming a stack. A conveying device including a rotating conveying element picks up the objects individually on the flat sid... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5772199 | Envelope feeding apparatus An apparatus for serially feeding envelopes along a longitudinal path of travel and which includes a support table, an envelope feeder mounted to the support table for feeding envelopes individually from the bottom of a vertical stack of envelopes in a la... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5713718 | Object picking device An object discharge mechanism of an object picking device for discharging a bottommost object from a stack of objects includes a bottom platform on which the bottommost object of the stack of objects rests. The platform has a longitudinal slot running alo... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5441247 | Sheet feeding apparatus and method for the same An apparatus and method for feeding cut sheets to an end device such as a printer or duplicator is disclosed. The feeding apparatus has a sheet storage assembly with a feeder mechanism. Sheets are removed from the storage assembly and delivered to a stagi... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5234208 | Document feeder apparatus utilizing driven belts A document feed apparatus is provided which feeds document sheets from a stack of sheets seriatum to a position remote from the stack. Two motor driven feed belts are pivotally mounted to contact or not contact a top sheet of the stack. The belts are driv... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5224693 | Multistage paper feeding/conveying apparatus and method that uses electro static forces A multistage paper feeding/conveying apparatus has a plurality of recording paper storing devices vertically arranged at multiple stages; a paper feeder for feeding a sheet of recording paper one by one from arbitrary one of the recording paper storing de... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5213319 | Adjustable feeder for shingling carton blanks from a stack and method for feeding therefrom For use with container production equipment, an apparatus is provided for controllably feeding a consistent stream of carton blanks in shingled form from a stack by applying constant pressure downwardly on a rotating belt which frictionally engages the to... | 05/25/1993 |
| 5033729 | Mechanism for the handling and singulating of flat materials The present invention is directed to a mechanism for the handling of and the singulating of a stack or plurality of aligned and substantially flat materials such as for example, sheets of paper, cards, printed flyers, envelopes, checks, business cards, la... | 07/23/1991 |
| 4960273 | Dual mode document feeder A document feeder includes a feed tray which is pivotal about a horizontal axis between an elevated automatic position in which it can be locked and in which the uppermost document of a stack of documents thereon is engaged with an endless belt skimmer to... | 10/02/1990 |
| 4909499 | Mail singulating apparatus Singulating apparatus for singulating mail pieces of varying sizes and thickness comprises reversely-driven belts mounted in a four-bar linkage that pivots upwardly to allow bottom most mail pieces through while driving backward overlying mail pieces.... | 03/20/1990 |
| 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 |
| 4850581 | Automatic sheet supplying device This specification discloses an automatic sheet supplying device for automatically feeding sheets from a sheet supporting table to a predetermined position. More particularly, the specification discloses an automatic sheet supplying device which is provid... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4395177 | Apparatus for feeding folded and flattened cartons to a packaging machine The apparatus comprises a continuous path, divided into a first rising section and a second substantially horizontal section, having a conveyor extending there along and carrying one or more pushers adapted to withdraw individually folded and flattened ca... | 07/26/1983 |
| 4395032 | Document feeder A document feeder having multiple feed members biased into contact with a document to be fed which members are mounted in a manner affording their independent angular adjustment with respect to each other and with respect to the document path, and affordi... | 07/26/1983 |
