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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7726649 | Air drag cooler for sheet transport apparatus In a sheet transport system for a reproduction machine, the transport system defining a transport channel through which the sheet travels in a transport direction, an improvement comprises one or more plenums associated with the transport channel, each plenum connec... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7419462 | Pressware die set with pneumatic blank feed An improved apparatus for making disposable pressware features a pneumatic feeding system which accelerates a paperboard blank into a forming die. In a typical embodiment, a pair of adjustable air knives propel a paperboard blank into the forming cavity. ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7392981 | Device for aligning stacked sheets into a book The invention concerns a device (01) for aligning at least along one edge several stacked sheets (09) into a book, while maintaining the serial order of sheets, said device comprising an editing table (11), having on one of its sides, a front st... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7384035 | Configuration for generating throttled blowing air or suction air A configuration for generating blowing air or suction air, in particular a directing element in a sheet-processing machine, has a throttle path formed with vortex chambers. The vortex chambers generate vortex flows in a flow channel and they are formed by projection... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7325493 | Sheet-fed rotary printing press having a three-drum reversing device and method of transporting a sheet through a three-drum reversing device A sheet-fed rotary printing press for selective recto printing and recto and verso printing includes a three-drum reversing device having three cylinders cooperatively disposed behind one another between respective impression cylinders of two adjacent printing units... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7311234 | Vectored air web handling apparatus A web control device is provided as a generally cylindrical hollow bar having a plurality of holes disposed thereon. Each of the plurality of holes is capable of providing fluid contact between the central portion and the outer portion of web control device. The web... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7226049 | Universal flexible plural printer to plural finisher sheet integration system A multifunction printed sheets interface system with plural sheet input areas for receiving printed sheets from plural printers, plural sheet outputs areas for plural outputs to different sheet processing systems, a sheet position sensing system, and a sheet transpo... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7223060 | Device for simultaneously conveying and regulating the temperature of shaped parts The invention relates to a device for simultaneously conveying and regulating the temperature of shaped parts, comprising a conveying device, which is suited for advancing objects, and at least one blower by means of which the objects can be subjected to the action ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7219889 | Sheet-processing machine with a pneumatic sheet-guiding device A sheet-processing machine, particularly a rotary printing press, includes a blast-air supply system and a pneumatic sheet-guiding device connected thereto. The sheet-guiding device has a sheet-guiding surface formed with air passage openings and serves for having t... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7192028 | Device for processing printed products supplied to a stacking device In a device for processing printed products supplied to a stacking device, the printed products are picked up at a delivery of a printing machine or a printed product processing machine by a transport device and are transported in a suspended position on a transport... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7150456 | Sheet transport drum for a machine processing printing-material sheets A machine processing printing-material sheets contains a first sheet transport drum and a second sheet transport drum disposed immediately after the first sheet transport drum in a sheet transport direction. The first sheet transport drum has gripper systems which d... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7108123 | Contact-free plate conveyor In a contact-free plate conveyor including an arrangement of nozzles each having a cup-like shape widening to a planar rim thereof, air under pressure is supplied to the nozzles such that an air flow is generated toward and through a gap formed between the rims of t... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7070179 | System and method for feeding and transporting documents including document trailing edge detection by sensing an air flow disruption while the document is still being fed from the document stack A system and method for feeding and transporting documents are provided. The method includes directing airflow to a fixed location upstream of a feeder at a stack of documents such that a document trailing edge passing the fixed location causes a disruption in the a... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7005030 | Printing and laminating apparatus An apparatus includes a printer and a laminator operating in line with said printer, and a feeding device arranged along the media path between the printer and the laminator for feeding to the laminator the media that is outputted from the printer. The feeding devic... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6957035 | Vacuum assisted fuser entrance guide for an electrophotographic machine A fuser entrance guide in an electrophotographic apparatus, which supports a sheet of copy medium as it enters the fuser section. The guide has a curved base plate that has vacuum ports both at the edges and across the central area thereof. The ports in the central ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6945525 | Sheet feeding apparatus having an adaptive air fluffer A sheet feeding apparatus for feeding a stack of sheets in a direction of movement to a process station, including: a sheet tray for holding the stack of sheets; an air plenum, positioned above the stack of sheets, for picking up a sheet from the stack of sheets whe... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6907755 | Device for manufacturing glass gobs A device for manufacturing glass gobs includes a membrane body of a porous gas transmitting material. Channels for introducing compressed gas into the membrane body extend through the membrane body material and are spaced at a distance from the gas outlet surface of... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6907825 | Delivery for a machine for processing flat printing materials A delivery for a machine for processing flat printing materials includes sheet brakes for accepting sheets fed in a processing direction at an acceptance level and for releasing the sheets at a surrender level. The sheet brakes are adjustably disposed for varying th... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6883426 | Printing machine and method for printing a sheet A printing press for one-sided or two-sided printing of a sheet includes a transfer cylinder disposed in a travel direction of the sheet between a first and a second impression cylinder, respectively, of two printing units, and a sheet support assigned to the transf... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6755009 | Method for making and handling an intraoral x-ray film packet A method for making and handling an improved intraoral x-ray film packet by forming a first outer and a second outer sheet from a thermoplastic material wherein the first outer sheet is made more rigid than the second outer sheet such that it has a tensile modulus o... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6739254 | Supporting or guiding device for sheets in a sheet processing machine, particularly a printing press A supporting or guiding device for sheets in a sheet processing machine includes a supporting or guiding layer having a supporting or guiding surface formed with a plurality of outlet openings for applying a throttled air flow therethrough to a respective sheet. A c... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6659446 | Guiding and carrying elements with throttled blowing air In a device for reducing the frictional force between a guiding or carrying element for sheets in a sheet-processing machine, in particular rotary printing machines, guiding and carrying elements acted upon by throttled blowing air include a sheet surface... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6626109 | Device for automatically changing printing plates in a printing machine A device for automatically changing printing plates is provided in a printing machine having a plate cylinder to which a printing plate is to be fed and on which the printing plate is to be fixed detachably. The device includes a transport system for conv... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6606946 | Sheet-fed offset printing process and sheet-fed offset printing machine A sheet offset printing method and a sheet offset printing press includes altering flow relationships in an interior of a housing of a sheet delivery of a sheet-fed printing machine to prevent uncontrolled spread of powder in the housing by extracting pow... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6591748 | Device for braking sheets A sheet-braking device for a sheet-processing machine includes a plurality of brake modules with a revolving suction belt formed with at least one suction opening. The brake modules have assigned thereto individual drives with controls for stipulating a r... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6585259 | Delivery of a machine for processing flat printing materials A delivery of a machine for processing flat printing materials, having a sheet guide surface over which the sheets are drawn during operation, with forcible guidance of an edge of the sheets extending in a processing direction, respectively, includes nozz... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6581928 | Sheet guide device for sheet-processing machine The sheet guide device for machines that process sheets of printing material, such as a sheet-fed rotary printing machine, has a first guide element which has a supporting face inclined transversely with respect to the transport direction of the sheets of... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6572100 | Pneumatic pinch force generator for document transport system A document transport utilizes a pneumatic pinch force generator in lieu of a conventional spring-loaded pinch roller, thereby minimizing problems associated with pinch roller inertia and debris collection.... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6543662 | Web transport system A method and apparatus for transporting a web having at least one table element including at least one inclined blowing device (4a-4d), at least one rounded hump (8), and at least one sucking device (6a-6c) between the at least one blowing device (4a-4d) ... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6543765 | Guiding device of a machine for processing planar printing materials A guiding device of a machine for processing planar print carriers, the guiding device having a guide surface, over and beyond which sheets are drawn, during operation, simultaneously with positive guidance by a margin of the sheets, which, respectively, ... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6543766 | Device for forming and transferring ordered stacks of bank notes Bank notes arriving from a control machine are fed along a feed pipe which has a plurality of outfeeds, each connected to an infeed zone of a forming channel along which an accompanying element moves, equipped with a surface on which the bank notes are re... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6540001 | Method of handling lamina objects A method of handling a lamina object including feeding the lamina object on to surface of a handling member, the surface of the handling member including a plurality of first openings connectable to a vacuum source sufficient to attract the object to the ... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6527268 | Method and device for contact-free guidance of sheets A method for feeding sheets in a feeding direction along a guide face of a sheet guiding device in a sheet processing machine includes forming an air cushion between the guide face and a respective sheet by providing an air pressure distribution resulting... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6494452 | Method and apparatus to decelerate printed product in a stacking process An apparatus and method to decelerate printed product in a stacking process is provided. The printed product may be a product such as printed paper, foil, or plastic. A continuous web of product may be cut into single items, one item at a time, and then t... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6454259 | Sliding valve vacuum holddown method and apparatus A vacuum holddown has a holddown member with an outer surface for temporarily capturing a flexible sheet material via a vacuum force distributed across the outer surface through discrete vacuum channels. A vacuum force valving mechanism abuts an inner sur... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6416051 | Sheet guiding device and method of production A sheet guiding device having a top plate formed with a smooth side facing towards sheets to be guided past the device, includes at least one depression defining at least one connecting region, the at least one depression being formed in the top plate fro... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6394450 | Apparatus for delivery of printed sheets of paper or the like in successive stacks A delivery fan, comprising sets of blades at constant circumferential spacings, receives therebetween the sheets successively falling from an overhead infeed conveyor. The sheets fall off the delivery fan on hitting a set of abutment tines arranged interd... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6382100 | Web guide roller, and printing press incorporating the same A roller assembly positioned downstream of a printing station in a web-fed rotary printing press for pneumatically guiding a web of paper after it has been printed upon, without the risk of smearing the printings. The assembly includes a roller in the for... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6361041 | Air cushion guide for sheet or web-formed material An air cushion guide for sheet or web-formed material that includes at least one guide member having a chamber and a surface formed with nozzle openings that may communicate with the chamber, through which air is blown between the guide member and the gui... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6279898 | Air cushion guide and method of adjusting a flotation height An air cushion guide for sheet or web-formed material includes at least one guide member formed with nozzle openings through which air is blown between the guide member and the guided material for supporting the guide material on a supporting air cushion ... | 08/28/2001 |
