Celebrity Inventors
Penn Jillette of Penn and Teller fame has patented a "Hydro-Therapeutic Stimulator", which uses a hot tub for stimulation.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7992866 | Apparatus for aligning sheets on stops An apparatus for aligning sheets in a processing machine includes translationally movable stops or front lays which can be driven through the use of a coupler mechanism or individually actuable electric motors. ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7845636 | Apparatus and method for spatially orienting blanks A device for spatially orienting blanks having a length in a transport direction has at least one stop roll body rotatable about a rotation axis and having at least one stop element, and a driver transport system for driving the blanks relative to the stop roll body... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7681882 | De-skew mechanism A de-skew mechanism, in an image forming device, with a correcting member disposed in a rotatable manner to the rotary shaft and turning with driving roller by a spring between them. A torque spring suppresses the turning of the correcting member to correct the skew... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7420693 | Paper cartridge for printer A paper cartridge of a printer including a cartridge body to load papers to be picked up, and a friction plate to provide a predetermined friction force to a front end of the papers picked up at the cartridge body. The friction plate is sloped at a predetermined ang... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7384039 | Registration apparatus for a sheet material article handler A method for registering a sheet material article in a sheet material article handler includes sequentially engaging, using a movable backstop, a leading edge portion of a sheet material article moving in a direction of movement of the sheet material article along a... | 06/10/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7040617 | System and method for sheet transporting using dual capstan rollers A platesetting system and method comprising a pair of dual capstan rollers that receives a recording medium and records an image on the received medium as the medium is transported through the system. The system and method advantageously enable at least a portion of... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6945530 | Device for conveying stacks of sheets of paper In a device for conveying stacks of sheets of paper, each stack is caused to advance along a pre-set path inside a pocket, which has a resting surface for supporting the stack and is provided with at least one pressure member designed to grip the stack on the restin... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6856785 | Retractable registration system and method of use A registration system including both a primary tamping device and a secondary scuffing device. The scuffing device includes a scuffer arm, an extending/retracting device, a drive subsystem, and an engagement control device. In various exemplary embodiments, the seco... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6805347 | Deskew mechanism and method The skew of a sheet of print media is precisely controlled by intentionally inducing print media deformation, so that cooperative mechanical and gravitational forces may be used to align the leading edge of the sheet. The sheet is driven into a nip region of deskew ... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6688594 | Suction roll A suction roller is used to transport aligned sheets in a sheet processing machine. A portion of the circumferential surface of the roller has suction ports. A drive motor is provided for the suction roller and can drive the suction roller at varying spee... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6682069 | Sheet conveyor system A conveyor system conveys sheets of different widths in a direction normal to the direction of width with an edge of each sheet held along a reference position. The conveyor system includes a drive roller and a nip roller and conveys the sheet with the ni... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6644875 | Printing device Before stopper members (25) of a skew correcting mechanism (10) are evacuated from a sheet conveyor path, sheet conveyor roller pairs (8) rotate a set angle in a direction opposite to the sheet feeding direction such that a sheet is separated from the sto... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6592120 | Signature register for a signature reversing device An apparatus for registering a signature moving along a surface, such as a drum, includes one or more pinch rollers for advancing the signature, and a register stop for stopping the advancement of the signature. The register stop is rotatable about an axi... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6378862 | Method of positioning sheet elements in the introduction station of a processing machine and a system for performing the method A device for positioning a sheet element in a processing machine has a movable base, a shelf movable with and relative to the movable base, and actuators which are operative to controllably displace the shelf relative to the movable base in such a manner ... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6345921 | Sheet feeding apparatus employing air streams as handling media Sheets of paper, photos, transparencies and the like can be fed to a work station (scanner, printer, photocopies, etc.) from a staircased stack of said sheets by use of an air knife and wind tunnel system.... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6345817 | Document sheet separator and optical document reader A sheet separator to separate sheets of documents supplied as a stack into a single sheet. The sheet separator has a first separating mechanism and a second separating mechanism, each of which has a separating roller. The second separating mechanism is pr... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6296245 | Device for the picking and feeding of sheets from a ream A device 100 for the feeding of sheets 14 from a ream 18, with a main rotating, feeding roller 27; a tray 13 containing the ream 18; and an auxiliary roller 130 arranged adjacent to the feeding roller 27, wherein the tray 13 is suitable for moving cyclica... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6293544 | Apparatus and method for registering and conveying a compiled set of sheets A sheet registration and conveyance apparatus for registering leading and trailing edges of a compiled set of sheets. The apparatus includes a first movable belt; a first registration stop fixedly mounted on the first belt for registering the leading edge... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6244592 | Sheet feeding apparatus for a corrugated fiberboard container making machine The present invention provides a sheet feeding apparatus for a corrugated fiberboard box making machine, which has front stops disposed at two locations spaced in the width direction (transverse direction) to true up the front edges of stacked corrugated ... | 06/12/2001 |
| 5956071 | Mechanism for positioning film into a scanning position in an internal drum laser scanner assembly An assembly for positioning a piece of photosensitive film into a scanning position on a curved film platen and an internal drum scanner assembly. The film platen is defined by a film feed edge and a film stop edge. An alignment mechanism is positioned pr... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5938193 | Method and apparatus for aligning moving flat articles with an also moving alignment member Flat articles such as letter envelopes or letter envelope blanks or the like are aligned for further processing by transporting the articles through an alignment path with the help of a pulling mechanism that seizes or entrains each individual article alo... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5374053 | Device for changing the transport position of products A device for changing the transport position of products such as sheet material signature fed to further processing units includes movable upper transport (4) and movable lower transport (7) in a transport plane (29). Products (22) are guided by the upper... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5301938 | Apparatus for gripping and registering sheets A sheet registering and gripping device for registering and gripping sheets transported along a sheet path. The device includes a registration edge and a gripping edge which extends from the registration edge. The invention further provides an apparatus f... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5287809 | Method and device for feeding, aligning and holding a sheet on a sheet-processing machine A method of feeding, aligning and holding a sheet on a cylinder of a sheet-processing machine, which includes, prior to an occurrence of a gripping operation on a sheet at a cylinder of a sheet-processing machine, forcing a leading edge of the sheet into ... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5261656 | Device for receiving printed products from a product folding apparatus of a revolvingly driven machine At every chain (4) of the chain conveyor (3), there are arranged a vane element (6) and a clamp member (7) in the shape of a double arm lever, one arm of which affords engagement with the vane element (6), while another's roller (11) moves on/off a cam or... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5172898 | Paperboard feeding apparatus The present invention relates to a lead edge type paperboard feeding apparatus suitable for a box making machine for corrugated board sheets and the like, and more particularly, provides a paperboard feeding apparatus provided with delivery rolls which de... | 12/22/1992 |
| 5123640 | Feeder table utilizing side and front edge aligners A device for correcting lateral alignment of a workpiece removed from a pile of workpiece prior to being fed into a processing machine. The device includes at least two pairs of rollers spaced along the direction of movement of the sheet, with each pair o... | 06/23/1992 |
| 5113997 | Veneer strip charging apparatus The veneer strip charging apparatus comprises a belt conveyor with a plurality of conveyor belts evenly distributed over the width of the apparatus. The belt conveyors transport the veneer strip placed thereon only by means of static friction. Furthermore... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5081821 | Method and apparatus for manipulating stacks of paper sheets in wrapping machines Stacks of paper sheets are transported from a sheeter into a wrapper by the upper reach of an endless infeed conveyor. The front end faces of successive stacks catch up with and are decelerated by successive flights on an endless second conveyor which is ... | 01/21/1992 |
| 5080666 | Document aligning apparatus Apparatus for aligning a document, the apparatus comprising: structure for feeding a document in a downstream path of travel, the document have a downstream edge relative to the path of travel; structure for registering the downstream edge of a document i... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5074544 | Document feeding apparatus Document feeding apparatus, comprising: structure for registering an edge of a document; first structure for feeding a document in a path of travel; and second structure for feeding a document from the registering structure to the first feeding structure,... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5039086 | Method and apparatus for adjusting posture of sheets To adjust the posture of a sheet being conveyed, movable checker members provided adjacent to the conveyance path for the sheet are once driven in the direction of conveyance of the sheet before the members touch the sheet and are subsequently decelerated... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5004515 | Automatic paper feeder An automatic paper feeder automatically couples a plurality of pieces of folded long paper to each other and then continuously feeds the pieces. A conveyor, a reference surface, a pusher and a drive unit are provided in the feeder. The conveyor has a larg... | 04/02/1991 |
| 4975716 | Thermal development image forming apparatus A thermal development image forming apparatus includes an exposure section, an overlapping section, a developing/transfer section, a sheet separating section, and a correcting section. The exposure section forms a latent image by exposing a photosensitive... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4945238 | Apparatus for loading sheet-shaped material An apparatus for loading a sheet-shaped material comprises a sheet holding device capable of holding a sheet-shaped material at a predetermined position on an inwardly concave curved surface, and a sheet conveyor provided at an end portion of the sheet ho... | 07/31/1990 |
| 4826148 | Sheet registration in copier for multiple sizes of sheets An electrostatographic printing system is disclosed as having a sheet registration mechanism comprising rotating fingers arranged to intercept the leading edges of copy sheets and to register the same as they are being processed. The fingers are mounted i... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4778506 | Process and apparatus for the transfer of glass panes from a conveyor to another device for bending of glass panes A method and apparatus for the transfer of pane objects such as glass comprises a conveyor along which the pane is accelerated past the downstream end of the conveyor. As the pane leaves the conveyor, it is received by a device which is aligned substantia... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4768770 | Signature feeder for a bookbinding machine A signature feeder comprises an in-feed table for conveying signatures disposed in a stack adjacent one another and each in an almost vertical aspect to a signature separator operating to separate the signatures one at a time from the stack and transfer t... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4704529 | Radiation image recording apparatus with a movable recording table unit A radiation image recording apparatus for recording a radiation image of an object at a variable height comprises a delivery stationary transfer mechanism and a receiving stationary transfer mechanism fixedly provided spaced from each other. A recording t... | 11/03/1987 |
