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A mouthguard includes a U-shaped upper bite plate which removably fits over upper teeth of a person, with the entire upper bite plate being made from a soft, deformable and edible gummi candy.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7971874 | Printing assembly for printing and binding pages Provided is a printing assembly for printing and binding pages. The assembly includes pinch rollers for feeding a sheet of paper into the assembly, and a printhead arrangement arranged after the rollers for printing on the paper. The assembly also includes an adhesi... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7431285 | Vibratory sheet jogger for jogging and aligning sheets of paper including checks The present invention is a vibratory sheet jogger which is used to jog and separate sheets of paper such as bank checks so that the sheets of paper and/or bank checks can be aligned. To achieve this result, a vertically jogging motion of a sheet tray is generated fr... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7398967 | Printing assembly for printing, stacking and binding pages A printing assembly for printing on consecutive sheets of print media includes a printing station having at least one printhead configured to print on sheets of print media passing through the printing station. A feed station is positioned upstream of the printing s... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7264237 | Sheet stacking-aligning apparatus, sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus The sheet stacking-aligning apparatus or the sheet processing apparatus includes a substantially horizontal stacking tray, a rear end aligning unit for aligning a rear end of a sheet bundle on the stacking tray, and a control unit for controlling an operation of the... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7237773 | System for feeding and transporting documents A system for feeding and transporting documents includes a feeder stage and a transport stage. The hopper assembly includes a hopper floor that carries the document stack and a flag that provides a force to move the documents along the hopper floor toward the feeder... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7222846 | Sheet take-out apparatus and method of taking out sheets A sheet take-out apparatus is disclosed that includes a sheet-feeding member on which sheets are placed. The apparatus includes an air spout unit to spout out air towards a right or left side of a front portion of the sheets with respect to a take-out direction of t... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7172672 | Method of adhesively binding a stack of sheets A method of binding a stack of printed sheets includes the step of consecutively conveying the sheets through an adhesive application station. One part of a two-part adhesive is applied to one side of each sheet and another part of the two-part adhesive is applied t... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7152860 | Method of producing a printed, bound document A method of producing a bound document of printed sheets includes the step of sequentially feeding each sheet along a paper path. Each sheet is sequentially printed. An adhesive is applied to each sheet. The sheets are sequentially stacked to adhere to each other. | 12/26/2006 |
| 7118102 | Rocker plate for separating sheets A sheet feeder includes a bin into which items are stacked. The items are sequentially removed from the bottom of the stack as the sheet feeder operates. The items travel a longitudinal path of travel to a separator wheel that staggers the items as they exit the she... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7082980 | Adhesive applicator in a page printing and binding process A binding process includes the application of respective parts of a two-part binding adhesive as strips at either side of a page to be bound. Part A of a two-part adhesive is applied to one side of a page and Part B of the two-part adhesive is applied to the reverse... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7032899 | Print media feed alignment mechanism To maintain quality printed images in high speed photographic quality printing it is necessary to ensure accurate registry of the print media with the printheads. To ensure this result an alignment mechanism is provided for the stack of print media to be fed to the ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7011302 | Vertical pocket feeder Vertical pocket feeder signature handling equipment which supplies signatures in an on-edge orientation one at a time to bindery equipment. The vertical pocket feeder particularly cooperates with a hopper loader apparatus which transfers and separates individual sig... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7008503 | Method of binding pages of a volume In order to avoid the necessity of cropping the pages of a bound volume, uniformly sized printed pages having pre-glued edge surfaces are aligned within a stack and a press then presses the edge of the stack so as to compress the glue and adhere the pages together. | 03/07/2006 |
| 7000913 | Pre-glued page stacking and binding mechanism A page stacking and binding system has a support tray for receiving pre-glued pages to be stacked, including a support surface; a drive system arranged so as to direct pages into the support tray, a vibrator interacting with the tray and a press device adapted to ap... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6997452 | Method of printing, stacking and binding pages A method of printing, stacking and binding pages is provided. The method comprises the steps of: (a) printing on the pages using a printing station; (b) applying adhesive to the pages using an adhesive station; (c) delivering pages one after to another to a support ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6994339 | Sheet stacking-aligning apparatus, sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus The sheet stacking-aligning apparatus or the sheet processing apparatus includes a substantially horizontal stacking tray, a rear end aligning unit for aligning a rear end of a sheet bundle on the stacking tray, and a control unit for controlling an operation of the... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6978990 | Binding assembly for binding sheets incorporating an alignment mechanism A binding assembly for generating bound documents includes a support structure that defines a floor onto which sheets to be bound are conveyed. A wall extends from the floor to define a stop for the sheets that are fed onto the floor. Each sheet has a strip of adhes... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6957811 | Printer incorporating two part adhesive applicator and binder A printer is provided incorporating a printhead for printing on pages of print media, an adhesive applicator for applying a two part adhesive to the printed pages, and a support tray for sequentially receiving and stacking the printed pages having the adhesive appli... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6860479 | Page binding apparatus The present invention relates to an apparatus for binding pages. The apparatus includes a tray having a support surface for supporting a stack of pages. The support surface is inclined towards a lower-most corner with two side walls being provided which define a cor... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6851667 | Page stacking and binding mechanism A page stacking and binding system has a support tray for receiving pages to be stacked, including a support surface; a drive system arranged so as to direct pages into the support tray, a vibrator interacting with the tray and a press device adapted to apply a comp... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6848687 | Page binder with adhesive applicator for gluing trailing edge of pages A page binding device for binding pages 11 from an inkjet printhead assembly 13. The device has an adhesive applicator 16 for applying adhesive to printed pages 11. The adhesive applicator 16 is adapted to apply adhesive onto the p... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6845978 | Page binder with air cushion and non-contact adhesive applicator A page binding device for binding pages 11 from an inkjet printhead assembly 13. The device has an adhesive applicator 16 for applying adhesive to printed pages 11. The adhesive applicator 16 is adapted to eject adhesive onto the p... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6840512 | Page binder with two part adhesive applicator A page binding device for binding pages 11 from a printer. The device having a support tray 18 for receiving and stacking printed pages 11 to form a bound document, and an adhesive applicator 16 for applying a two part adhesive to the pri... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6830243 | System for printing, stacking and binding pages A system for printing, stacking and binding pages that has a drive system arranged to direct pages along a page path, a print station positioned on the page path, an adhesive station positioned downstream of the drive system, a support tray for receiving pages to be... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6695304 | Vibrating means for aligning envelopes in a hopper Envelope alignment of a vertical stack of envelopes in an envelope hopper is maintained by mechanically vibrating a preselected part of the hopper. In a first embodiment, the vibration is caused by a reciprocating shuttle having a wedge-shaped member atta... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6672584 | Vibrating support tray for a page binder A page binding support tray has vibratory page alignment. The tray has a floor having a lower-most corner at which two side walls of the tray converge. Previously edge-glued printed uniformly sized pages are received to form a stack upon the tray floor an... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6631897 | Page binding support tray having vibratory page alignment A page binding support tray has vibratory page alignment. The tray has a floor having a lower-most corner at which two side walls of the tray converge. Previously edge-glued printed uniformly sized pages are received to form a stack upon the tray floor an... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6585255 | Vibratory sheet joggers A sheet jogging device includes a compact housing having an inclined front face, and a rack resiliently mounted to said housing along said front face. Within the housing a drive spring is fixed at one end to the housing and connected at an opposite end to... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6572101 | Flexible jogger for a signature feeder A jogger for a signature feeder includes a back stop disposed at a first side of a hopper of the feeder and a flexible jogging element disposed at a second side of the hopper opposite the first side. As a stack of signatures is formed in the hopper, the f... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6497406 | Quiet jogging A document jogger jogs unit records such as checks and like value documents. The jogger has a bin for receiving the documents, and a vibrator coupled to the bin to vibrate it. A liner is adapted to be removably attached to the bin. The liner has an impact... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6394443 | Drop table attachment for sheet feeding machine A drop table is used for accumulating a desired number of sheets of items in a bundle and then dropping the bundle onto a conveyor belt. The drop table has a plurality of rods acting as a floor in a collection box. When the drop table receives a signal fr... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6364310 | Apparatus for jogging mail An apparatus is provided for jogging elements to settle or align the elements. The apparatus includes a vibrating element and an input bin for receiving the elements to be jogged. The apparatus further includes an elongated element disposed between the vi... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6364312 | Method and arrangement for removing air inclusions when forming stacks from sheets A method and arrangement are provided for removing air inclusions between sheets in a stack when forming the stack from sheets fed successively by a sheet feeder to the stack to be formed and deposited thereon in a sheet feeding region. Air out is suction... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6227538 | Paper tamping mechanism A paper tamping mechanism comprising a mechanism depositing sheets in a stack; a tamping blade adjacent to the stack; said tamping blade is movable towards said stack in order to strike and tamp a sheet deposited on the stack; the tamping blade means is m... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6076825 | Sheet processing apparatus with multiple-position stacking tray A sheet processing apparatus includes a stacking tray for accommodating sheets discharged thereto. A sheet discharging mechanism discharges the sheets to the stacking tray. A moving mechanism reciprocates moves substantially vertically the stacking tray b... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6073776 | Separation of anomalous items A method for jogging bunches of standard-size documents of prescribed height mixed in with anomalous- size documents of lesser height, these standard-size documents to be shaken and tilted to register against a first-wall of a receptacle. This method also... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6056288 | Self adjusting controlled acceleration sheet stacking offsetting system A sheet stacking offsetting system with a stacking tray offsetting movement system with which printed sheets from a reproduction apparatus are stacked offset relative to one another, with a simple rotary drive of an eccentrically rotated extending pin cam... | 05/02/2000 |
| 5947468 | Method and apparatus for jogging and edging of mail and other flat articles An improved device for edging flat products is provided having a plurality of spaced apart generally upstanding fingers, the fingers being forwardly translatable with a group of flat products between them. Each of the fingers is rockable back and forth ac... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5927936 | Bill handling machine A bill handling machine includes a rotatable drum provided with a bill transport arrangement in which a bill transporting passage is formed therein and movable between a transport position where it can hold bills in the bill transporting passage so as to ... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5622269 | Apparatus and method of item jogging with registration-barrier cutout to pass under-height items A method for jogging bunches of standard-size documents of prescribed height mixed in with anomalous-size documents of lesser height, these standard-size documents to be shaken and tilted to register against a first-wall of a receptacle this method also i... | 04/22/1997 |
