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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7494122 | Device and method for storing and/or dispensing rigid or flexible substantially planar items Described herein are a device and a method for storing and/or dispensing plane, rigid, or flexible items, such as banknotes, cards or the like. The items are stored sequentially between successive windings of ribbon means which are wound and unwound between a suppor... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7322575 | Device and method for aligning a stack of sheets arranged one above the other The invention relates to a device and a method for aligning at least the front edge of several sheets arranged in a stack, one above the other, whilst maintaining the order of the sheets. Said device comprises a stacking table, one side of which is provided with a f... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7131645 | Device for separation of folders in a layer of folders A device for separation of folders within a layer of folders includes elements for blocking the advance of a folder in the layer, elements for unlayering the folders preceding the retained folder, and elements for retaining the blocked folder and the folders followi... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7059598 | Conveying arrangement for sheet quires and method for combining sheet quires A conveying arrangement for sheet quires, includes at least two successively arranged conveying devices of which a front conveying device as seen in a conveying direction has a lower speed than a rear conveying device. At least one ionization device electrostaticall... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7055816 | Method of processing sheet-like products, and apparatus for implementing the method A method and apparatus for processing a stream of sheet-like products, such as printed magazines and newspapers, whereby the orientation of the products in the stream is changed to facilitate subsequent processing. The products are conveyed in an imbricated stream, ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7021035 | Apparatus for producing stack bundles An arrangement for producing stack bundles from signatures includes a horizontal stack deposit support, a conveyor to supply a flow of signatures to the stack deposit support for formation of a signature stack having a front end and a back end, and a supporting devi... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7014188 | Banknote store A banknote store (10, 12, 14, 16) comprises first and second drums (18, 20; 18, 22) mounted for rotation about respective axes on, respectively, first and second shafts (51), an elongate support strip (24; 26) which can be unwound from on... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6996959 | Envelope-filling station for mail-processing systems An envelope-filling station for mail-processing systems. The station includes an enclosure feeder for transporting enclosures to an inserting arrangement pushing enclosures into envelopes in the same direction as the enclosure feeder. An envelope supply is positione... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6969064 | Paper sheet storing and releasing apparatus The present invention provides a paper sheet storing and releasing apparatus which stores and releases paper sheets by winding and unwinding a tape between a wheel and a reel, wherein the apparatus can remove dust stacked on the tape during an operation thereof and ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6945529 | Conveying arrangement for sheet quires and method for combining sheet quires A conveying arrangement for sheet quires includes successively arranged conveying devices of which a downstream conveying device as seen in a conveying direction has a lower speed than an upstream conveying device and at least one ionization device for electrostatic... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6840513 | Mail tray loader for inserters The invention is directed to an automatic mail tray loading device that is adapted to receive envelopes from an inserting machine or from other mail-processing systems and place them in mail trays. The device has a two-stage envelope buffer, which buffers the envelo... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6817608 | Method and apparatus for stacking mailpieces in consecutive order The present invention provides a method and apparatus for stacking mailpieces received from a mail-processing machine in consecutive order. There is a receiving conveying section positioned at a greater height than the following stacking conveying section. A stackin... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6715753 | Method for putting into storage and dispensing sheet-like objects, and device for carrying out this method In a method for putting into storage and dispensing sheet-like objects, in particular bank notes, between at least one tension storage belt into or from a storage reel, in time periods between input and dispensing cycles, at least one belt tightening operation (F... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6691995 | Conveying unit for flat objects A conveying unit that is useable for the conveyance of generally flat objects, particularly in a folder of a rotary printing press, includes endless first and second belts and a roller. A conveying path for the flat objects extends initially between the t... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6669136 | Paper money handling device In a paper money handling device of the type in which paper money conveying unit, wheel driving unit and reel driving unit are driven to wind a tape between a wheel and a reel and to rewind the tape wound on the wheel to the reel and to deliver paper mone... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6666136 | Paper-feed roller and fabrication method thereof A paper-feed roller and a fabrication method thereof in an office automation machine, such as a photocopier, a printer, and a facsimile machine, etc, includes forming a plastic roller along a general stainless shaft by a molding and forming a ceramic coat... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6619651 | Process and apparatus for forming a double imbricated formation of printed products A process and an apparatus for forming an imbricated stream of first and second printed products, in which in each case a first and a second printed product are located substantially congruently one upon the other in double imbricated formation. The first... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6585098 | Bill-receiving/discharging device and bill-handling apparatus with the bill-receiving/discharging device A bill-receiving/discharging device for storing bills in their shorter-side direction by using one small-width tape has a problem that a corner of a bill is highly lifted due to folds of the bill when discharged, because a distance from a tape-holding poi... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6565082 | Bill receiving and discharging device and bill handling apparatus In a bill receiving and discharging device having a wheel for winding a tape together with a bill and a reel for winding the tape rewound from the wheel, a bill in which a cut exists at a position at which the bill cannot be held within width of the tape ... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6446962 | Device for vertically forming partial stacks of printed products A device for vertically forming partial stacks of printed products. Said device comprises a belt conveyor (1) for transporting printed products, a bulging device (11), by which the printed products conveyed on the belt conveyor (1) may be provided with a ... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6213461 | Device for guiding printing products Printed products are guided from an infeed to a delivery belt by a plurality of partially overlapping paddle blades. The paddle blades are secured to an endless carrier such as a chain or a toothed belt. The printed products are deposited on the delivery ... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6213463 | Conveying apparatus for flexible, flat articles arising in an imbricated formation The conveying apparatus has a transport belt (10) which is intended to feed flexible, flat articles (12) arising in imbricated formation (S), resting freely, to a conveyor (14). The transport belt (10) is led around a deflection drum (16) and, together wi... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6199858 | Office printing apparatus with shingling of sheets in a duplex loop Apparatus for stacking sheets comprises a duplex tray for holding a sheet in a temporary storage position. A dispense nip is formed at an outlet of the tray. Rollers feed a sheet from the temporary storage position by a predetermined distance through the ... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6196540 | Blow tube for a sheet-stacking apparatus A sheet-stacking apparatus has a conveyor including a plurality of parallel upper belts extending in a transport direction for delivering a succession of sheets one at a time to a stacking station and a plurality of blow tubes each having a main portion e... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6189827 | Process and apparatus for storing blanks A process and apparatus for storing stackable, sheet-like blanks delivered individually one after the other, in particular for packaging. The individual blanks are fed to an intermediate store which comprises a stack of the blanks, and the blanks are with... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6139009 | Device and process for delivering imbricated products A device and a method for depositing products or signatures on a conveying belt utilizes both a fixed stripper and a rotating stripper, in conjunction with a delivery paddle wheel. The cooperation of the fixed and rotating strippers deposits the signature... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6089565 | Stop wheel assembly and method for web-product delivery system A stop wheel assembly for use in a web-product delivery system includes a stop wheel rotatably attached to an elongated member, a clamp member attached to the elongated member, and a gas cylinder including a first end attached to the clamp member to rotat... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6068255 | Document transport apparatus Document transport apparatus (10) includes at least one pair of cooperating rollers (20A, 20B) for engaging documents therebetween and for defining a first stage (18) of a document transport path (16) for movement of documents therealong, the first stage ... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6059283 | Fold section feeding out apparatus of folding unit A fold section feeding out apparatus of a folding unit for a rotary press is capable of preventing rebounding of a read end portion of a fold section to be caused upon transferring from a delivery fan to a conveyer. The fold section feeding out apparatus ... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6022017 | Method for handling a small gap order change in a corrugator Certain parameters in a high speed order change in a corrugator, including a small gap between orders and the relative lengths of the old and new order sheets, require altered order change and discharge routines on the downstacker conveyor system in order... | 02/08/2000 |
| 6019047 | Gripper conveyor with preliminary ink jet An apparatus for providing printed products to a gatherer, including a product supplier for feeding printed products, a product separator positioned to receive printed products from the product supplier and to separate the printed products into a separate... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5961114 | Mailpiece stacking structure An apparatus for stacking mailpieces received from a mail processing machine includes a deck; a sloped wall extending from the deck; a plurality of continuous belts each extending along the deck in a first direction and positioned at substantially equal i... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5909873 | Non marking slow down apparatus A slow-down apparatus is disclosed using a suction box by itself to slow a sheet of paper in a paper transport apparatus, and to remove the trailing edge of a sheet from the path of the leading edge of an oncoming or following sheet to prevent lead edge d... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5863330 | Apparatus and method for applying coating materials to individual sheet meters Sheets to be coated with water-based coating material, for example a primer and a low adhesion backsize, are supplied from a feeder (1), in end-to-end overlapping relationship, to a dual coater (3) in which the sheets are coated individually on both sides... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5842696 | Turn-over and shingling apparatus A sheet inverter is used in a method of handling documents, preferably to invert the documents, change them from an in-line configuration to a shingled configuration, and then move them in a direction substantially transverse to the original direction of ... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5823528 | Device for feeding blanks on a cigarette packing machine A device for feeding blanks on a cigarette packing machine, wherein a succession of blanks, arranged side by side and overlapping one another along a supporting strip wound into a reel, is fed along a supply path by unwinding the reel and feeding the supp... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5819663 | Gripper conveyor with preliminary ink jet An apparatus for providing printed products to a gatherer, including a product supplier for feeding printed products, a product separator positioned to receive printed products from the product supplier and to separate the printed products into a separate... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5733099 | Process and apparatus for stacking sheet-like products, in particular printed products A specific number of printed products is arranged on a supporting belt in a compacted imbricated formation. The printed product arranged at the leading end of the imbricated formation, as seen in the conveying direction, rests with its bottom end against ... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5722655 | Apparatus for evenly spacing successive printed products Sheet-like products are fed to the transfer location by a first conveyor. A detector arrangement determines the spacing between the products and controls the first predetermined speed of a second conveyor correspondingly, with the result that, at the tran... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5636832 | Apparatus for feeding sheet-like products to a discharge location A conveying belt is deflected around a stationary deflection roller and loops around the bottom of a deflection wheel. The deflection wheel is freely rotatably mounted on a lever and is prestressed in the direction towards the deflection roller by a sprin... | 06/10/1997 |
