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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6471202 | Sheet feeding apparatus and image processing apparatus Present invention relates to a sheet feeding apparatus for conveying a sheet from a feeding roller to an image processing section, comprising an intermediate conveyance roller disposed between the feeding roller and the image processing section, a drive s... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6433897 | Integrated chassis for automatic document feeder in a scanning unit In a scanning unit such as a facsimile machine, an automatic document feeder transports individual sheets from a stack of documents along a document path over a scanning window to an output tray. An upper guide member includes an integrated chassis which ... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6392763 | Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus Present invention relates to a sheet feeding apparatus comprising, feeding means for feeding sheets; and limiting means movable to a limiting position for limiting a front end of the sheets and to an escape position for releasing the limitation. And the s... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6375183 | Sheet feeding apparatus with inclined separation plane, and image forming apparatus having same A sheet feed roller is urged into contact with the upper surface of a sheet at the top of a stack of sheets supported on a sheet support and an inclined separation plane separates a sheet, fed forward by the sheet feed roller, from the other sheets of the... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6364308 | Document feeder with overlap prevention A document feeder with overlap protection that prevents the overlap of successive documents moving from a document stack and that utilizes a nudger. An independent motor selectively drives the nudger. Document edge detectors sense the location of document... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6361037 | Sheet feeding apparatus, image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet feeding apparatus having a stocking plate on which a plurality of sheets are stackable, a separating device for separating the sheets stacked on the stocking plate one by one by a pair of pressure contact members, a feeding device for feeding the ... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6331001 | Sheet feeding machine A sheet feeding machine includes a sheet feeding table which is vertically movable and capable of supporting a plurality of first recording sheets thereon, first sheet feeding device movably situated above the sheet feeding table, the first sheet feeding ... | 12/18/2001 |
| 6315283 | Input hopper and encoding station for card printer A card feeder for a card printer provides a stack of cards at an input end of the printer. The cards are supported on a pair of rollers that are driven at differential speeds and through one-way clutches so that a card being fed from the stack will pass t... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6305682 | Sheet supplying apparatus A sheet supplying apparatus has a sheet support for supporting sheets, and a sheet supply roller for feeding out the sheets supported by the sheet support. An abutment member is pivotally supported to be rocked between a regulating position to regulate a ... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6290223 | Device for supplying flat products to a processing station Device for individually supplying flat products (P) to a processing station, including a feed attachment (2) having a wall (4) with substantially vertical orientation, against which the products are juxtaposed, and a system (16) for extracting the product... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6279893 | Automatic sheet feeder for an image forming apparatus An automatic sheet feeder for an image forming apparatus includes a tray to be loaded with a stack of sheets, a side guide for preventing the sheets from skewing, and a sheet feeding mechanism for sequentially picking up and feeding the sheets, the top sh... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6267367 | Device for collecting and transferring cut paper products or the like A device for collecting and transferring cut products has an in-process storage device and a feeder feeding a stream of the cut products to the in-process storage device. The in-process storage device has a collecting tray in which the cut products fed by... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6260839 | Paper feeding apparatus The present invention provides a paper feeding apparatus for use in an image reader, e.g. such as an image scanner, which is designed especially to prevent overlap feeding of sheets of paper, and can adjust both the pressing forces between a hopper for ca... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6260840 | Sheet feeding apparatus, image forming apparatus having the same and image reading apparatus having the same A sheet feeding apparatus including a movable sheet supporting device for supporting a sheet, a sheet feeding device urged against the sheet supported by the sheet supporting device and adapted to rotate in a sheet feeding direction to feed the sheet, a f... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6257569 | Apparatus and method for delivery of sheet media to a printer An apparatus and method for delivery of sheet media to a printer includes a chassis, a drive motor, a media tray with elevatable pressure plate, a plurality of pick rollers situated opposite movable pinch rollers that come into contact with the pick rolle... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6254080 | Paper sheet controlling apparatus and method of using same A method and apparatus for controlling the movement of paper sheets from a paper tray or the like is disclosed, and includes using a moveable sheet feeding device for removing the topmost single sheet from a stack of paper sheets seriatim to feed them alo... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6234470 | Sheet material feeding apparatus A feeding rotatable member, a conveying rotatable member and a separating rotatable member are driven by a sheet feeding motor, a feeding motor and a separating motor, respectively, which are independent driving means to thereby feed an original. The sepa... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6224049 | Sheet feed apparatus Sheet feed apparatus for supplying sheets such as banknotes from a store (1) to a sheet transport system. The apparatus comprises a feed system (4) for withdrawing sheets from the store (1). A separator system (12) is provided to which sheets are fed by t... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6213458 | Document sheet feeding apparatus A sheet feeding apparatus for picking up, aligning, and feeding single sheets from a stack of a plurality of such sheets. The apparatus includes a driving means for the pick up, separator, and sheet feeder having a driving motor with a coupling in the dri... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6206368 | Paper transport device with one roller pair In a paper transport device, a first roller serving as a separation roller is situated underneath a second roller serving as a document feed roller, together forming a roller pair. A rotary shaft of the separation roller is biased upward toward the docume... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6186490 | Bill dispensing device To provide a bill dispensing device capable of handling bills widely differing from each other in paper quality and creases with high reliability and of handling all the bills of widely different lengths with respect to a delivery direction. A bill dispen... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6182961 | Duplex document retard separation and feeding with reduced image smudging The disclosure relates to separating and feeding previously printed document sheets from a stack with reduced inter-sheet document image smearing using a retard-type sheet separator-feeder. For duplex documents, the intermittent drive system for the retar... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6158733 | Sheet feeder for feeding sheets of different rigidity A sheet feeder includes a support plate inclined backward and a feed roller for feeding one by one the sheets of paper stacked on the plate. A first support surface and a second support surface are formed at or near the bottom of the plate to support the ... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6151140 | Integrated chassis for automatic document feeder in a scanning unit In a scanning unit such as a facsimile machine, an automatic document feeder transports individual sheets from a stack of documents along a document path over a scanning window to an output tray. An upper guide member includes an integrated chassis which ... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6109604 | Media feeder A paper feeder comprises a control unit; a pair of side plates; a feed module having two or more separate feed rollers; a transport module having two or more separate transport rollers; a pusher module having a belt assembly and at least one pusher roller... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6105954 | Sheet feeder for digitizing scanner A sheet feeding mechanism for a digitizing scanner particularly adapted to feed transparent and translucent film sheets provides two pairs of feed rollers each located on an opposing side of the scanner camera's image line. A tray for supporting a feed st... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6102388 | Envelope feeder A feed roll has a plurality of equiangularly spaced flat faces thereon for engaging a restraint roll to form a nip therebetween through which the lowermost envelope in a stack of envelopes is fed. A spring continuously urges the restraint roll into engage... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6089560 | Medium conveying apparatus and front loading mechanism To provide a conveying apparatus which prevents a document being damaged by accidental opening and closing operations of the drawer portion, and a document reading apparatus; there is provided a medium conveying apparatus which at least includes a drawer ... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089562 | Device for feeding a recordable paper to an image forming apparatus Disclosed is a device for feeding a recordable paper to an image forming apparatus. The device according to the present invention is designed such that a document feeder is disposed on a knock-up plate on which recordable papers are stacked so as to feed ... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6076822 | Automatic document feeder An automatic document feeder is formed of a platen including a reading position for reading an image of a transferring document, a feed roller device for transferring the document to the reading position on the platen, a register roller device for supplyi... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6073923 | Paper-feeding mechanism for a document duplicating machine A paper-feeding mechanism for a document duplicating machine, which is driven by a single power source and performs intermittent paper-loading control and continuous paper-conveying operation on a paper loader of the document duplicating machine, comprise... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6070866 | Apparatus for the charging of a processing line for printed sheets An apparatus for the charging a processing line with printed sheets is comprised of a conveying device which pulls off the printed sheets from a bottom side of a stack, with a separating apparatus that partially lifts off the printed sheet to be pulled of... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6068252 | Sheet feeding apparatus The rear edge support rollers which protrude in the U-shaped sheet paths on the upstream side of the sheet feeding direction prevent the rear edge of the sheet from sliding in contact with the path walls and restrain back tensions from working on the main... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6059279 | Retard sheet separator-feeder with retarded sheets kickback reduction A retard sheet feeder-separator for separating and sequentially feeding sheets with a frictional sheet feeding roller, driven via a drive train by an intermittently connected rotational drive system, feeding an individual sheet past an engaging frictional... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6043901 | Printing control for an information processing apparatus having information reading, printing and copying functions In the printing paper cueing in a printing mode in a copying process, cueing of a second cueing length L2 which is smaller by ƊL is performed compared with the printing paper cueing length L1 in a printing process other than the copying process. This sho... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6036052 | Roller mechanism for a lottery ticket machine A roller mechanism for a lottery ticket machine includes a face plate, a compartment, a roller unit, two position hook bars, a gear unit, and a motor device. The roller unit has a main and a subordinate rollers both provided with a pattern. The motor has ... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6005687 | Imaging apparatus having different motors for separating and reading documents An imaging device of the present invention includes a separating unit for separating a stack of original documents one by one. The separating unit feeds the separated document to a reading unit capable of reading an image out of the document. To insure st... | 12/21/1999 |
| 6000689 | Automatic paper feeder An automatic paper feeder comprises: a pick roller for picking out paper accommodated in a paper cassette; a separation roller to which a torque limiter is connected, and which separates the paper picked out by the pick roller to feed the paper one sheet ... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5996993 | Bill handling machine A bill handling machine includes a take-out roller whose entire circumferential surface is formed with a high friction material and which is adapted to engage with leading edge portions of stacked bills and can take out the bills, a separation roller for ... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5992846 | Sheet feeder and printer A sheet feeder includes a feed roller and pressure rollers for feeding a sheet of paper through the nips each between the feed roller and one of the pressure rollers. The feeder also includes a sheet passage for feeding a sheet of paper through it with an... | 11/30/1999 |
