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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7303523 | Paper-folding apparatus A paper-folding apparatus includes a hopper for holding one or more sheets of paper or other similar foldable media, a discharge feed and stripper assembly, a shuttle associated with the hopper operable to transfer a sheet of paper from the hopper to the discharge f... | 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 |
| 7213809 | Translation table for sheet feeder A linear translation table for use in conjunction with a sheet feeding machine and a conveyor for laterally translating the sheet feeding machine over rows of product receiving portions of boxes or blisters in sheets of bubble packaging such that the sheet feeding m... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7168696 | Apparatus and method for separating flat parceled goods In order to provide an apparatus for separating flat parceled goods, comprising a driver device with at least one driver surface, which is driven such that the parceled goods can be carried along in a transporting direction by the at least one driver surface, and al... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7040613 | Computer controlled sheet feeder A sheet feeder having parallel opposing shafts with rollers or belts for engaging sheets. The sheet feeder having one control to adjust the height of both sides of one shaft so that the rollers apply the same force to both sides of the sheet to feed the sheet straig... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6971808 | Card printing devices Card printing apparatus, for example, for printing identification cards, pass cards and the like generally comes with a relatively restricted size card input hopper. The number of cards that can be processed in a single operation is accordingly limited. The capacity... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6945528 | Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet feeding apparatus includes a sheet stacking unit, sheet feeding unit, and a sheet support member. Sheets are stacked on the sheet stacking unit. The sheet feeding unit is placed to be movable in the widthwise direction of the sheets stacked on the sheet stac... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6443443 | Suction belt conveyer for a sheet processing machine A suction belt conveyor for a sheet processing machine includes an operationally revolving endless suction belt having, at an outer side thereof a filigree structure formed by indentations, the suction belt being formed with penetrating bores terminating ... | 09/03/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6378859 | Method for controlling a device used to remove packages from a pile The invention relates to a method for controlling an apparatus for doffing flat shipments at a controllable doffing speed that delivers the shipments at constant speed to driven conveyor belts. According to the invention, the speed at which the shipment t... | 04/30/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6113091 | Automatic document feeder An automatic document feeder for use with an image forming apparatus, for conveying a document on a platen of the apparatus, includes a rotating conveyance belt for pressing the document to the platen thereby conveying the document along the platen; a pre... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6105952 | Stacked-sheet prefeeder A stacked-sheet prefeeder comprises a sheet guiding device for receiving therein a stack of sheets, an intermediate tray, a scale former for removing sheets, arranged in a stack and/or in a scalelike mode of arrangement, jointly from the lower surface of ... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6050562 | Stacked sheet feeder A sheet feeder has a pair of rearward feed belts declining in a downstream direction at a first angle for supporting a rear portion of a stack of sheets and a forward feed belt declining in a downstream direction at a lesser angle than the first angle pos... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6050563 | Sheet feeder An electromechanical friction feed device for controlling the single feed of sheet-like articles from a stack of such articles has a feed belt and stripper wheel that are used to draw a single article from the bottom of the stack to the discharge section ... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6027110 | Sheet-feeding device A sheet-feeding device for the cyclic feeding of separated sheets from a sheet stack of a sheet feeder to a sheet processing machine or an onward conveying device is provided. The sheet-feeding device includes one or more first conveying rollers of relati... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5879001 | Unit and method for individually feeding brochures to a pick-up station A brochure feeding unit comprises a feeding magazine containing brochures stacked on top of each other in the form of a stack. The lowermost brochure in the stack directly resting on a belt conveyor is withdrawn by means of the conveyor through an outlet ... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5818470 | System and method for directly feeding paper to printing devices A unique system and method for directly feeding sheets into a printing device having a moving image conducting element with a plurality of images placed thereon for transfer to sheet paper and having a wait station for controlling the timing of paper tran... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5785310 | Device for decollating stacks of flat objects A device for decollating stacks of flat objects includes a stack magazine. The base of the stack magazine supports the stack and includes revolving rollers that form a continuously moving series of rollers, pass underneath the stack magazine, and roll alo... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5732941 | Continuous feed mobile unit A continuous feed mobile unit which feeds sheets of paper one at a time, from the bottom of a stack onto endless moving belts, which transport the sheets to folder apparatus. Paper can be added to the top of the stack at any time, which does not interfere... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5636832 | Apparatus for feeding sheet-like products to a discharge location A conveying belt is deflected around a stationary deflection roller and loops around the bottom of a deflection wheel. The deflection wheel is freely rotatably mounted on a lever and is prestressed in the direction towards the deflection roller by a sprin... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5588643 | Method and device for withdrawing flat folded carton blanks from a magazine and for feeding them to a carton set up line Tubular blanks, from which containers to be filled and closed are set up, are stacked in flat condition inside a magazine (3), so that they rest on supporting bars. A back edge of the lowermost blank of the stack is engaged by a pair of lugs mounted on a ... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5456457 | High speed separator with movable hold back belt for high speed flats feeder An apparatus for separating and advancing documents includes a first assembly having movable belts for frictionally engaging and advancing one of the documents along a path, and a second assembly having stationary belts and retrogressingly moving a portio... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5316282 | Sheet feeding and separating device for image forming equipment A sheet feeding and separting device incorporated in image forming equipment for feeding sheets one by one from a sheet stack while preventing two or more sheets from being fed together as far as possible and, when a plurality of sheets are accidentally f... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5249788 | Sheet stack pre-feeder The device for feeding sheet stacks 26 has a guiding device 5, in which a plurality of endless guide belts 18, 19, which guide the sheet stack 26 to a motor-driven sheet feed device 8 arranged on a removal side of the sheet stack. The endless guide belts ... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5129641 | Multiple stage dispenser A method and apparatus for delivering cards or like paper stock fed singly from a stack of the cards to a demand location for dispensing in sequence, in which each card fed from the stack is advanced through a plurality of stages of a conveyor, each stage... | 07/14/1992 |
| 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 |
| 4787620 | Method and apparatus for controlling the withdrawal of articles A Method of Controlling the Withdrawal Process is carried out in a Singling Device and Arrangement to increase the throughput of singled shipments such a letters, postcards and the like from a singling device to a conveyor, the delivery of successive ship... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4723773 | Sheet feeding methods and apparatus Sheet feeding systems provide a sheet receiving nip at a peripheral region of a rotary sheet transport and arrange sheets in a stack having a stack and formed by a bottom sheet and spaced from the nip by a distance shorter than the minimum length of any o... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4673175 | Paper feeding device for box making machine The paper feeding device for a box making machine eliminates the intermittent paper feeding which gives rise to operational defects. The device operates continuously at a low speed to match the speed of feeding a quantity of paper with a timing correcting... | 06/16/1987 |
| 4603847 | Bank note processing machine equipped with a cassette for accommodating bank notes A bank note processing machine has at least one cassette in which feed rollers and a gate gap is provided to enable conveying of bank notes. When the cassette is placed outside the machine, the feed rollers are locked. When the cassette is loaded in the m... | 08/05/1986 |
| 4369961 | Apparatus for withdrawing flat carton blanks from a stack thereof An apparatus for the withdrawal of flat carton blanks made of paperboard, boxboard or corrugated board from a stack located in back of a retaining mechanism, which comprises conveyor belts and belt guides disposed beneath the stack of blanks for the contr... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4192496 | Apparatus for feeding case blank sheets Apparatus for receiving a stack of case blank sheets from a source of supply and delivering the sheets in shingled arrangement, for further processing, by receiving the stack at a first level, elevating the stack intact vertically to a second level above ... | 03/11/1980 |
| 4171130 | Control of withdrawal of flat items individually from a stack During the successive discharge and conveyance, along a conveying path, of items of mail from a stack by a continuously driven conveying device and an externally controllable removal member arranged to transport successive items from the stack to the regi... | 10/16/1979 |
