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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8186673 | Optimised guidance of documents in self-service systems A roller storage system for storing sheet-type objects, in particular bank notes, is proposed, comprising a first film drum (3), which can be rotatably driven by a motor, with a first strip-shaped film (7) as a storage strip, comprising a second film d... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8113508 | Bill processor The invention provides a bill processor that substantially horizontally delivers bills one by one to an upper space of a stacking unit from a delivery unit, downward strikes and drops the trailing edge of a delivered bill in its delivery direction by impellers, and ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8016287 | Sheet stacking device and image forming device A sheet stacking device for stacking conveyed sheets includes a stacking surface on which the sheets are stacked; a plurality of projections that project from the stacking surface. Wherein, the projections extend generally in a travel direction of the sheets, which ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8002273 | Paper discharge apparatus, post-processing apparatus, and image forming apparatus A paper discharge apparatus that sequentially discharges paper through a discharge outlet, stacks and stores the paper is provided, the apparatus includes: a discharge tray including a fixed tray that is fixedly disposed spaced apart from the discharge outlet, and a... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7976019 | High throughput sheet accumulator An improved sheet accumulator for stacking serially fed sheets transported on a paper path includes a guide deck. Above the guide deck, a plurality of parallel belts are positioned to provide a driving force for sheets on the deck. Within the accumulator, a ramp app... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7748705 | Paper discharge tray A paper discharge tray 6 includes: a paper loading portion 7 provided in a bent form including a first tray surface 7a and a second tray surface 7b; a rear wall 8 for supporting and aligning the trailing end of paper ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7673873 | Offset print stacking tray with anti-stubbing feature A tray for receiving printed media from a printer, the tray including a print well, a ramp and at least two side walls. There is at least one support member extending from the tray adapted to engage the printer and position the tray such that the print well is later... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7661670 | Sheet discharge device A sheet discharge device neatly and uniformly aligns edges of print sheets irrespective of the thickness of a print sheet, and exerts the same effect even at a low discharge speed. The sheet discharge device includes: sheet information sensing means for detecting th... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7484729 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a loading portion that is capable of receiving a recording sheet. The loading portion includes a correction member which has a bending portion, wherein the bending portion selectively moves between a first position and a second po... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7451979 | High throughput sheet accumulator An improved sheet accumulator for stacking serially fed sheets transported on a paper path. The accumulator includes a guide deck. Above the guide deck, a plurality of parallel belts are positioned to provide a driving force for sheets on the deck. Within the accumu... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7429038 | Finisher for image forming apparatus A finisher for an image forming apparatus includes a pair of rotatable downstream rollers and a pair of rotatable upstream roller between which a path on which an imaged medium travels. The finisher determines when a trailing edge of the medium is about to leave a n... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7413189 | ATM currency dispenser with convex roller arrangement An ATM includes a currency note dispenser having a currency cassette, a note picker, a note transporter, and a note presenter. A cassette tambour door automatically opens during insertion of the cassette into the dispenser. The picker can pick notes through the open... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7398916 | Printer having straight media path A printer is provided having a print media supply, at least one printhead arranged to print on traveling print media, a feeder arranged to feed print media from the print media supply along a media path past the printhead, and a binder arranged on the media path for... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7383017 | Curl correcting device and image forming apparatus A sheet curl correcting device and an image forming apparatus incorporating the same. The image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit for fixing a toner image transferred by an electrophotographic image forming unit to a sheet, a pair of rollers having different ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7357391 | Device for selectively stacking sheets A device (10) for stacking sheets and a device for depositing notes, which comprises a plurality of such devices (10), are shown. The device (10) comprises at least one carrying face (16, 18) for carrying a sheet stack, the carrying face ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7310495 | Image forming apparatus The present invention provides an image forming apparatus that can perform stable sheet conveyance, regardless of whether a sheet processing apparatus is connected thereto. The image forming apparatus can be connected to a sheet processing apparatus that performs po... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7300051 | Rippler for a paper deliverer A rippler may be installed on a paper deliverer used in conjunction with a paper sheeter, in between the vacuum belts of the sheeter. The rippler includes an upwardly projecting ridge, causing paper passing over it to develop a ripple, thereby increasing the rigidit... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7290952 | Recording apparatus with a slidably accommodated discharge tray The invention provides the recording apparatus, which has excellent operability of drawing and retracting the sheet discharge tray and excellent design in accommodating the sheet discharge tray and includes a sheet discharge mechanism having an advantage for miniatu... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7255303 | Paper guide apparatus and method with curl control A paper guide for mounting in front of a paper dispensing slot, has a top wall angled downward with respect to the paper ejection direction by an angle alpha, a pair of opposed side walls at the sides of the top wall, angled inwardly relative to the side edges of th... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7243913 | Standby tray having curl correction A sheet post-process apparatus of the present invention, when sending sheets of paper collected on a standby tray to a processing tray, has a standby tray realizing an improved lining capacity of sheets of paper and a pair of tray members for loading ejected sheets ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7222780 | Inline printer assembly An inline printer assembly includes a chassis. A media supply bay is mounted on the chassis for storing sheets of print media. A feed mechanism is mounted on the chassis for feeding the sheets of print media from the paper supply bay along a feed path. A printer is ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7207493 | Document stacker apparatus and method of stacking documents A document is cupped at a first time to stiffen and straighten the document before the document is stacked in the interior chamber of a document stacker. The cupped document is cupped at a second time which is different from the first time to maintain the document s... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7200356 | Discharge roller device A discharge roller device includes at least one roller pair, at least one first free roller and at least one second free roller. The roller pair includes a driving roller and a pressure roller pushed against the driving roller. The first free roller is disposed at a... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7198420 | Printer A printer 1 includes a sheet storage unit 6 in which a stack of sheets can be set, a pickup roller 12 which contacts one side of the stack of sheets set in the sheet storage unit 6, and a lid 10 which covers the other side of the s... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7178801 | Accumulating and delivering apparatus for cardboard sheets An apparatus for accumulating and delivering folded cardboard sheets includes at least a pair of stacking bases moveable along a loop including a stacking position for stacking the cardboard sheets on the stacking bases and a delivering position for delivering the p... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7121544 | High throughput sheet accumulator An improved sheet accumulator for stacking serially fed sheets transported on a paper path. The accumulator includes a guide deck. Above the guide deck, a plurality of parallel belts are positioned to provide a driving force for sheets on the deck. Within the accumu... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7104686 | Radiographic apparatus A radiographic apparatus includes a detection section including photoelectric conversion elements that detect radiation that has been transmitted through a subject. The apparatus has a substantially rectangular detection surface; and a housing that contains the dete... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7099618 | Paper discharge tray A tray and a method thereof that uses the tray including a surface with a first end and a second end opposite to the first end a projection extending away from the surface and from the second end of the surface and a recess formed below the surface and from the proj... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7017491 | Printing apparatus having plate discharge mechanism with air blowing unit A plate discharger includes a peeling claw, a transport device and an air blowing device. The transport device has a rotary shaft, first transport rollers rotatable about the rotary shaft, a driven rotary shaft connected to a drive gear meshed with and driven by a t... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6978995 | Apparatus and method for collecting flat and letter units A collector apparatus and method capable of collecting material in two modes of operation, flats and letters. With a minor adjustment, the apparatus can be transformed from a two-stage device optimal for the letter mode of operation, to a one-stage device optimal fo... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6965750 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus of this invention is provided with a conveying guide that is curved in the direction reverse to the curved shape of a nip portion of a fixing unit in order for leading sheet paper that is vertically conveyed at the time of fixing in the ho... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6902161 | Sheet feeder avoiding sheet sag An entrance guide for externally fed sheet (4) to printer (1) is configured to bow the sheets. In one embodiment guides (5a, 5aa) within slot 7 have upper and lower configurations which force sheet into a bow. In one ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6793217 | Stacker for die-cut products A stacker for stacking labels die-cut from a continuous web by a die cutter into vertical stacks. The stacker is of the kind that includes at least one stacking chute having an upper opening and a number of mainly vertically arranged walls, at least one overlying be... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6776404 | Finishing device having a sheet guiding and buffering mechanism A finishing device having a sheet guiding and buffering mechanism located in the space between a sheet transporting assembly and a finishing platform. The mechanism has two parallel retractable arms having a slight curvature along their length. Sheets dispensed seri... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6701098 | Automatically determining heat-conductive properties of print media An implementation of a technology is described herein for automatically determining the heat-conductive properties of print media. More particularly, described herein is a technology for indirectly and automatically determining the heat-conductive propert... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6698752 | Sheet transport device A projecting tab formed with a bulged portion and an indent on an upper side thereof is provided inwardly projecting in a transport path. A sheet being transported in the transport path is formed into a seemingly wavy configuration in the width direction ... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6671490 | Image forming apparatus This invention relates to an image forming apparatus that can correct a curl of a transfer medium correctly and smoothly. This image forming apparatus includes a curl correcting mechanism, including a rotatable sponge roller and a fixed press member which... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6655864 | Dot recording apparatus A recording head has a head face on which at least one row of dot forming elements which form dots on a recording medium is arranged in a subscanning direction thereof. A drive feeding roller extends in a main scanning direction of the recording head. A p... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6601845 | Automatic document feeder An ADF with simple structure includes an input tray and elastic film. The input tray is for receiving a document to be fed and the elastic film disposed upon the input tray is for supporting the document to be fed by bounce. The elastic film includes a jo... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6603954 | Post slit decurler and sheet stacker device A portable, post slit decurler and high capacity stacker module for use with a machine, such as, a desktop page printer, includes a decurler that decurls prints after they have been slit into thirds, halves, or whole prints. The post slit decurler and hig... | 08/05/2003 |
