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A resilient headband in a shape for being mounted on the head of the user. The headband is equipped with a longitudinal slotted member for holding a placard.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8056898 | Pin conveyor for printed sheet material and transfer unit A pin conveyor for printed sheet material has a chain, a plurality of pins extending from the chain to push printed sheet material, and a receipt area for the printed sheet material, the chain and pins passing through the receipt area. The receipt area has at least ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7810806 | Paper feed mechanism and image generating apparatus with reversely driven feed roller This paper feed mechanism includes a paper feed cassette integrally having a paper contact portion on a position deviating from the center of a rear-side inner wall surface in the cross direction by a prescribed distance in the cross direction and an apparatus body ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7296793 | Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus The present invention relates to a sheet processing apparatus aligning and stacking a sheet comprising: a stacking means for stacking the sheet or sheet bundle; a conveying means for conveying the sheet or sheet bundle toward the stacking means; a sheet rear end ali... | 11/20/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7252285 | Method and apparatus for aligning a media sheet An alignment device for aligning a manually loaded media sheet to a printer feed path has at least one registration feature disposed to register the trailing edge of the media sheet to the feed path. By aligning the trailing edge, an orthogonal media sheet is loaded... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7128318 | Sheet registration deskew improvement system with a centrally pivotal baffle Sheet registration with improved sheet deskewing of print media sheets may be provided with an intermediately transversely pivotal baffle member overlying and engaging at least part of a buckled sheet being edge registered so that the effective buckle chamber size a... | 10/31/2006 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7000541 | System and method for interleaf sheet and/or plate sheet removal and/or transport for use with a printing apparatus The present invention relates generally to systems and methods that remove an interleaf sheet interposed between plate sheets from a material stack used, for example, in a computer-to-plate imaging system and/or environment. Embodiments of the system and method can ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6805508 | Skew-correcting media delivery system and method A skew-correcting media delivery system and method for driving media along a media path. A driver urges the media in a first direction and an opposite second direction along the media path. A substantially flat surface, which is aligned substantially perpendicular t... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6264195 | Sheet material supply tray with automatic size adjustment An adjustable tray for holding a supply of sheet material is provided. The tray includes a selectively movable backstop, and a selectively movable slide plate. An adjustment mechanism is provided that is selectively movable between an automatic position i... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6203006 | Sheet-size and stacking direction adjustable accumulator with removable ramps and method A sheet-size and stacking direction adjustable accumulator and method are disclosed. The accumulator is easily adjustable for handling sheets of different widths and for either under or over accumulating. The adjustability is provided by allowing accumula... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6142461 | Sheet processing device A sheet processing device according to the present invention is formed of an image forming device, an ejecting device and a stacking device; wherein the sheet processing device further includes an auxiliary support device which is disposed at a distal sid... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6123331 | Sheet joggler system Sheet joggler system with an inlet roller pair (70, 70'), an outlet roller pair (71, 71'), sheet guides (48, 49) determining a curved sheet path between these roller pairs, a sheet supporting plate (65) between the inlet roller pair and the sheet guides, ... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6102385 | Finisher A finisher includes an additional-working tray and a leading edge stopper and trailing edge stopper for aligning folded and unfolded sheets fed into the additional-working tray. The leading edge stopper contacts a leading edge of each sheet when it is fed... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6092799 | Sheet supplying apparatus and image reading apparatus A sheet supplying apparatus capable of supplying sheets in a circulating manner, includes a sheet resting device on which the sheets rest, a sheet supplier for supplying the sheets rested on the sheet resting device, a trail and regulating member provided... | 07/25/2000 |
| 5967681 | Thermal printer with sheet feeding means A thermal printer (10) with a thermal head (16) for image-wise heating a heat-sensitive sheet according to an elongate printing zone, which comprises sheet feeding means having a sheet advancing mode for feeding a sheet with its leading end through the ga... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5876031 | Sheet supply device having a suction pad holder with attached swing arm for registering sheets An apparatus for recording or reading information on or from a sheet is disclosed. The apparatus includes a holding unit for holding a sheet, a first arm which has one end pivotally fixed to the holding unit, a second arm whose one end or a specific point... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5765483 | Device for automatic format adjustment in a delivery of a rotary printing press A device for a format-dependent adjustment of cut-off length in a delivery region of a rotary printing press having a device for nonstop operation, with stops for the trailing edge of the sheets to be delivered, includes a separating band revolving perpen... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5421699 | Method and apparatus for merging vertical documents with horizontal documents Apparatus and a method for merging vertically oriented documents with horizontally oriented documents. The apparatus includes: a document assembler for receiving vertically oriented documents, the document assembler having a pair of parallel paper paths, ... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5401012 | Automatic document feeder with side by side document feeding capability An automatic document feeder having a 2-in-1 mode which serially locates first and second documents adjacent to one another at a copying position. The document feeder includes a separating part for separating documents one by one from a bundle of document... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5332205 | Automatic document feeders for copying machines and method for automatically controlling such An automatic document feeder installed on a copying machine. This document feeder is constructed such that one reversible motor provides the drive power for all of drive parts of the document feeder, that is, a document feeding part, a document conveying ... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5317372 | Copying method and apparatus In a document feeder, documents are contained on a document rest in a stacked state. These documents are sequentially transported to a specified exposure region on a table glass member of a copying machine by a feeder and transporter and are then exposed.... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5308175 | Printer with reverse sheet feed path to sheet inlet In this printer, switching between a single-sheet form feed path and a continuous form feed path occurs by rotating a paper guide when feeding the forms. When the printed single-sheet form is to be discharged onto a table, the tail end of the form is dete... | 05/03/1994 |
| 5232216 | Sheet feeding apparatus for flat bed optical scanner A sheet feeding apparatus for sequentially moving sheets into a predetermined registration position with a sheet support surface of an associated optical imaging device including a sheet displacement assembly for engaging and guidingly displacing the shee... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5209808 | Corner label applicator system and method An applicator system and method for automatically applying and securing an adhesive backed (or gummed) label onto a corner surface of a typically three-dimensional, right-angle polygonal object such that the body of the label is applied and adhered to one... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5165675 | Control means for guide members in an intermediate tray in a duplex copier A control device for a copier of the type loaded with a recyclic document feeder (RDF) and operable in a two-sided copy mode for producing two-sided copies by sequentially stacking one-sided paper sheets and refeeding them for transferring images on the o... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5154412 | Automatic document feeder A switch is located near a pair of register rollers for feeding a document sheet toward a platen glass. A pair of document-feeding rollers are located near a platen glass. When the switch detects the rear edge of the document sheet being fed by the regist... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5100125 | Apparatus for adjusting alignment of advancing sheet material Apparatus is disclosed for aligning, i.e., de-skewing, sheet material having squared upstream and downstream edges which is being advanced along a path. The advancing apparatus includes a pair of endless belts having pushers projecting therefrom which eng... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5090684 | Guide for a sheet aligning station of a package producing machine A guide for a sheet aligning station for lateral positioning of a sheet includes a supporting surface mounted on a belt to support the trailing edge of a sheet and a roller extending slightly beyond the supporting surface to contact the sheet edge and red... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5026044 | Dual mode document registration system A system for efficiently feeding normal sized and oversized documents into different imaging positions overlying an imaging platen. All documents are initially fed onto the platen from an infeeding position desirable for normal documents substantially dow... | 06/25/1991 |
| 5001520 | Document conveyance apparatus with retractable auxiliary conveyance roller A document conveyer for conveying a document to a predetermined position on platen glass of a copying machine, including; a document feeder for feeding the document from the outside of the document conveyer to a conveyance roller, located on the platen gl... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4940220 | Supporting device A device (1) for supporting a stack of sheet material with zones of uneven thickness, e.g. envelopes (11), on a printer with a pick-up device (16, 17) for the envelopes and a table (10) is provided with a supporting plate (2) as well as bar type supportin... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4905981 | Apparatus for changing the position of printed products arranged in an imbricated formation The apparatus for changing the position of printed products arranged in an imbricated formation comprises two band conveyors arranged in tandem as viewed in the conveying direction, and a position-change device arranged in the end region of the conveying-... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4886264 | Method and apparatus for receiving printed products from a revolvingly driven bucket wheel of a printing machine An outfeed conveyor is arranged beneath a rotary bucket wheel driven to rotate in a predetermined rotational direction. A belt conveyor is arranged downstream of, and a product entrainment arrangement is arranged upstream of, the outfeed conveyor. An endl... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4864366 | Automatic document feeder An automatic document feeder for feeding documents in order to expose a document in a sheet through mode in which an optical system is fixed, a document is moved at constant speed, including; rollers for feeding documents one at a time from a document fee... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4843962 | Double-feed envelope guide system for printing press This relates to an attachment kit for an offset printing press of the type manufactured and sold by A. B. Dick Company, which attachment comprises a leveling system including a pair of pivoting boards constructed to be mounted in parallel relation on a ba... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4838408 | Veneer straightener A veneer straightener, operating with a moving conveyor, includes two endless chains outwardly flanking the sides of the conveyor, the endless chains being mounted on drive sprockets powered through a common drive shaft. Mounted on the endless chains are ... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4739983 | Document feeders used with image forming apparatus A document feeder for use with an image forming device such as a copy machine. An original document is first transported from an original document feed port toward an original exit port until a trailing end of the original passes a predetermined stop posi... | 04/26/1988 |
| 4708759 | Edge locating device An edge locating device is particularly useful in a system having an articulating frame for supporting and aligning a first sheet of material relative to a second sheet of material supported on a belt below. The device is attachable to the articulating fr... | 11/24/1987 |
