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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7419153 | Method and apparatus for producing bound books, magazines or brochures A method for producing bound books, magazines or brochures by gathering printed sheets into non-bound book blocks along a conveying section that is supplied by at least one sheet feeder includes separating the lowest printed sheet from a stack of printed sheets by l... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7384031 | Product separator and feeder This invention discloses an apparatus and method for separating and feeding flat products from a stack to a gripper drum. The invention employs a specially-positioned pivoting and articulating sucker bar, having several degrees of motion, operating in timed relation... | 06/10/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7304291 | Information detecting device, sheet material processing apparatus equipped with information detecting device, and signal output device Disclosed is an information detecting device capable of reducing fluctuation in detection accuracy. A recording sheet P transported through a transport path comes into contact with a displacing member, and, in this state, a motor is driven to rotate a cam, and the r... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7110135 | Printer resource sharing in a media exchange network Systems and methods of printer resource sharing in a communication network are provided. In one embodiment, the system may comprise, for example, at least one communication device, a communication network, print server software, and at least one personal printer res... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7100526 | Label/tag inserter system A label inserter system for inserting and sewing a label or law tag into a border for a mattress or foundation during the formation of the border. The label inserter system generally includes a hopper, a label pre-feeder and a label transfer clamp subassembly that e... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7080832 | Sheet material feeder A sheet material feeder includes a sheet material holder for holding a pile of sheet material; a sucker bar device having at least one sucker for contacting the sheet material, the sucker bar device having a pivot axis, and an actuator for pivoting the sucker bar de... | 07/25/2006 |
| 6805344 | Automatic bank note pushing device for a storing device An automatic bank note pushing device is movably mounted for extending into and out of a bank note storing holder that in turn is slidably mounted in a bank note storing device or safe. The pushing member can retract from the bank note storing holder when the lid is... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6769678 | Sheet separating device A device for separating a lowermost flat product from a stack of flat products including at least one sucker cup moveable so as to removably attach along a front edge portion of the lowermost flat product and to separate the lowermost flat product from a next adjace... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6758469 | Gripping conveyor with pneumatic separator A feeding device for feeding a processing line with printed products, including folded or non-folded printed sheets, from a stack of printed products. The printed sheets are held in a magazine. A conveyor defines a circulating path and moves in a conveying direction... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6705606 | Bag placer magazine A bag placer magazine such as for feeding flat pleated paper or plastic bags to a bag filling apparatus. The bag magazine accommodates flat pleated bags stacked horizontally on a moveable conveyor platform which circulates around the stacked bags. Bags are removed o... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6698749 | Device for feeding folded or unfolded signatures to a production line A feeder device for removing folded or unfolded signatures from a stack of signatures in an adjacent signature magazine and feeding a production line with the signatures. The device includes a conveying rotor having an approximately circular circumference... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6634635 | Lift hook for a sheet separating device An apparatus for separating a flat product from a pile of flat products set operators comprising a lift hook being movable from a closing position to an opening position. The lift hook supports the bottom of a pile of flat products in its closing position... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6623000 | Apparatus and method for separating sheet material by means of a reciprocating disk separator A feeding and conveying system for feeding and conveying sheet material for printing, collating, or binding the sheet material, among other processes. The feeding and conveying system includes at least one feeder having a magazine containing a plurality o... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6601844 | Procedure for feeding products in sheet form to a conveyor and pick up unit A procedure for feeding products in sheet form to a conveyor by at least one sheet feeder with a pile of products in sheet form on a loading table includes the following phases. At least one sheet feeder is placed with a free edge of its loading table for... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6557845 | Sheet separating device An apparatus for separating a flat product from a pile of flat products includes a sucker mechanism. The sucker mechanism has a sucker cup, a sucker tube and a vacuum device for generating a vacuum. The sucker tube has a first and second end, the sucker c... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6390461 | Insert hopper and method for improving the operation thereof An improved insert hopper for use in conjunction with the insert feeding device of a document handling apparatus such as a mail insertion machine. The insert hopper includes a support deck, a front registration member, and a backstop member. A bottom supp... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6332607 | Apparatus and method for separating sheets from a stack that includes a pulsed suction assembly For individually separating outer sheets (9, 109) of a stack (6, 106) in a holder (1, 101), in each case in the area of an outer sheet or an outer set of sheets a suction is generated for sucking at least a portion of an outer sheet or set of sheets (9, 1... | 12/25/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6231040 | Sucker height adjustment mechanism A sucker adjustment device including a moving lever having a cam surface adjacent its far end. An axis is located adjacent the near end and a first cam follower is mounted intermediate the ends. The first cam follower bears against an actuating cam which ... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6206361 | Device for separating blanks A device for continuous separation of blanks for book cover material, envelopes for brochures or similar bendable sheets of a stack of sheets from a magazine with a conveyor belt with a non-skid surface and openings acted upon by air suction, bearing the ... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6145829 | Process and device for selecting a single stacked flat object from a stack and use in packaging of cigarettes A process for selecting a single stacked flat object from a stack of flat objects. The lowermost flat object is downwardly detached from the rest of the stack of flat objects by negative pressure on at least one of its edge areas) running parallel to the ... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6102387 | Automated sheet dispenser An automated sheet dispenser for dispensing a single sheet removed from the bottom of a stack formed of a plurality of sheets. The dispenser includes a hopper for supporting the stack of sheets, the hopper having an opening provided in the bottom surface ... | 08/15/2000 |
| 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 |
| 6022014 | Assembling machine A sheet feeder for use in a book assembling machine comprises a magazine having a movable base which defines a support plane for a stack of folded sheets. The feeder also includes a pneumatic separator, which creates a gap between a corner of the lowermos... | 02/08/2000 |
| 6015145 | Separator guide for Z-folded sheets A saddle stitching machine is modified by attaching a device which permits the machine to process outside Z-folded sheets when collating a plurality of sheets together for a magazine or other publication. The device operates in synchronization with a suct... | 01/18/2000 |
| 5927704 | Sheet feed apparatus preventing image ruboff Apparatus for feeding sheets seriatim from a stack of sheets which substantially prevents image ruboff. Such sheet feed apparatus includes a tray for supporting a stack of sheets. A plate associated with the tray supports the lead edge of the sheet stack.... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5833229 | Bindery feeder and method of operation A feeder for feeding material along a feed path. The feeder includes a conveyer, a sensor and a control system. The conveyer operates at a normal cyclical rate to transfer the material along the feed path. The sensor mounts on the feeder and detects the m... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5826745 | Stocker for flat healds There is disclosed a stocker for flat healds according to the present invention is a flat heald stocker for stocking a lot of flat healds in order to selectively discharge an arbitrary flat heald A out of the many flat healds A juxtaposed, in which the fl... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5709378 | Mechanism for counting stacked sheets A sheet counter has a blade (13) for insertion between adjacent sheets of a stack thereof, and a pin (15) which orbits around the blade to transfer sheets from one side of the blade to the other. A carrier (37) defines three axes disposed in a generally t... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5695183 | Paper interleaver A paper feed system suitable for use with a portion control machine to provide paper sheets for separating portions, including a paper hopper mountable to a portion control machine and adapted to receive and temporarily retain a stack of paper sheets. The... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5630582 | Sheet Separating apparatus In sheet separating apparatus suitable for use in an automated teller machine (ATM), sheets, such as banknotes, are removed singly from a stack (14) using reduced pressure derived from a vacuum pump (86). An air filter (72) is provided in the vacuum suppl... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5586756 | Dual mode pneumatic signature feeding spring and disabling apparatus In order to increase the reliability in selectively disabling a signature feeding apparatus, and to avoid the problems which are inherent in mechanical systems, a unique dual mode pneumatic system is contemplated for use with a cyclically operable signatu... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5366214 | Enclosure feed device for enclosing and sealing apparatus and method of enclosing and sealing enclosures The enclosure feed device is constituted in such a way that a drive motor is provided for rockably driving a rocking arm, and a control unit is provided for causing the memory section to input the variable amount relative to the sucking position of the su... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5366215 | Disabling mechanism for signature feeding apparatus In order to avoid disruption of a stack of signatures, particularly when a cyclically operable signature feeding apparatus is temporarily disabled, the utilization of a unique disabling arrangement is contemplated. The signature feeding apparatus will gen... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5280900 | Convertible metering hopper for thin single sheet and bulky multiple sheet articles A metering hopper which utilizes an oscillating friction pad to engage and initiate the feeding of successive, bulky newspaper sections or the like from the bottom of a stack may be converted into a machine using a vacuum separating feeder for thin, singl... | 01/25/1994 |
| 5265858 | Apparatus for converting a sheet material feeder from on edge to bottom feed An existing sheet material feeder has a feed tray which holds sheet material in an on-edge orientation in which side surfaces of the sheet material are generally vertical. An apparatus is provided to convert the sheet material feeder to one having a feed ... | 11/30/1993 |
| 5238120 | Machine for sorting graphic and/or printing products A machine for sorting graphic and/or printing products in which the products are fed one after the other, comprising a framework, a conveyor for receiving individual products one after the other sensors for identifying each of the individual products on t... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5224694 | Selectively disabled signature feeding apparatus In order to avoid disruption of a stack of signatures, particularly when a cyclically operable signature feeding apparatus is temporarily disabled, the utilization of a unique latch arrangement is contemplated. The feeding apparatus will generally include... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5195732 | Apparatus for the extraction of blanks from a blank magazine For the production of packs from (thin) cardboard, blanks (10) are prefabricated and stored as a blank stack (16) in a blank magazine (17) for processing. An extraction member (20) serves for extracting the individual blanks from the underside of the blan... | 03/23/1993 |
