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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8132810 | Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus An oblique feeding roller and a reference guide are provided on a re-conveying path for conveying a sheet in which an image has been formed on one side by an image forming unit to the image forming unit again. The sheet is obliquely fed by the oblique feeding roller... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8113512 | Medium conveyance mechanism (device) Aligning of banknotes is carried out without using an aligning device. A medium conveyance mechanism includes an upper belt (2) entrained around two rollers (3a, 3b), a lower belt (5) entrained around two other rollers (6... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8038149 | Alignment/registration and conveyance apparatus An apparatus for registering sheet material while being conveyed along a feed path including: (i) a conveyance deck for conveying sheet material along a support surface, (ii) a registration member defining an abutment surface operative to align an edge of the sheet ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7971877 | Transfer out device A device to transfer printed products out of the transport channel of a gathering and collating machine in which the printed products are transported in a clocked flow comprises an arrangement for transferring the printed products in a downward direction out of the ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7581729 | Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet conveying path is constituted by a fixed guide portion and a movable guide portion movable in a width direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction of a sheet for regulating the position of one side edge of the sheet by a skew feed correcting portion, and... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7556264 | Banknote conveyor A banknote conveyor which includes moveable means for transporting a banknote, the means engaging frictionally with the banknote at at least three points so that the force driving the banknote is dependent on the rigidity of the note. The banknote can further swivel... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7478808 | Jogging device for a mail processing machine In a mail processing machine having a receive deck for receiving a stack of mail items for printing, jogging means for jogging the stack of items against a reference wall, selection means for extracting mail items for printing one by one from stack of items, and pri... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7441772 | Sheet-conveying device A sheet-conveying device includes a sheet conveying path along which a sheet is conveyed, a conveying roller, an inclined roller, an inclined-roller-supporting member that supports the inclined roller such that the inclined roller can rotate around a rotational axis... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7434801 | Versatile paper feeding device of image forming apparatus A versatile paper feeding device of an image forming apparatus includes a pick-up roller, a paper support tray under the pick-up roller to stack paper on, a paper support expansion tray to be able to freely slide toward or away from the paper support tray to support... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7404557 | Sheet transporting apparatus and sheet processing apparatus using the same A sheet transporting apparatus, includes: a sheet transportation path; a predetermined number of transport members disposed in a sheet transportation path; a side position regulating mechanism which regulates a position of a side edge of a sheet in the sheet transpo... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7374165 | Sheet transport apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image reading apparatus In a sheet transport apparatus in which a skew feed correcting portion is provided so as to be able to pull out from the apparatus, the skew feed correcting portion including a sheet transport path through which a sheet is transported, and a skew feed correcting dev... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7347418 | Method and apparatus for overlapping sheets in a sheet feeder and providing the overlapped sheets to a printing press The present invention is directed to a sheet feeding apparatus and method. In particular this invention comprises a sheet feeding apparatus having a first conveyance member, a second conveyance member, and a sheet bending member. The first conveyance member conveys ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7281711 | Blowing-air holding-down arrangement and sheet-aligning device provided therewith The holding-down arrangement for holding down a sheet (24) in a sheet-bearing region of a sheet-processing machine, in particular of a folding machine, includes a plurality of blowing devices (19, 21) which, during use, are directed toward a sheet (... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7240900 | Recording medium transport device and image forming apparatus A recording medium transport device includes a transport roller unit nipping a recording medium and transporting it to a recording area, the transport roller unit including a sheet detection lever coming in contact with a leading end part of the recording medium to ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7121545 | Independently activatable side pull for lateral alignment of a sheet A device and a method for lateral alignment of a sheet (5, 6) in a sheet processing machine, in which the sheet (5, 6) is movable essentially across its direction of transport (7) into an alignment position (4); a side pull lay device is ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7104540 | Sheet handling method and apparatus An apparatus for handling a sheet of material comprises: a paper accumulator that receives at least one sheet of paper, and at least one first roller that applies a force against a first edge of the sheet in a first direction parallel to the first edge, so as to mov... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7100811 | Web guide and method The present invention relates to a method of production and an arrangement for feeding and guiding web materials in laterally separate paths from a web supply to a machine for producing packing blanks. More specifically a web guide is disclosed, capable of controlli... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7100422 | Systems and methods for residue collection with improved letter handling capability Systems and methods for the detection of substances (particularly particulate substances) within mail pieces, specifically letters and other “flats” of mail. In particular, the systems and methods are for the detection of residues of Chemical or Biological Warfa... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7080831 | Sheet-sorting apparatus A sheet-sorting apparatus has a stacking tray to stack sheets formed with indicia thereupon, a processing tray to receive said sheets in the process leading to said stacking tray, and when necessary, a path to discharge directly to said stacking tray and a path to d... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7073371 | Systems and methods for residue collection Systems and methods for the detection of substances (particularly particulate substances) within mail pieces, specifically letters and other “flats” of mail. In particular, the systems and methods are for the detection of residues of Chemical or Biological Warfa... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7014189 | Alignment disk for document validator An apparatus is provided for processing a document traveling along a document path within a document validator. The such apparatus includes a disk where a periphery of the disk extends into the document path of the document validator, a support shaft that passes thr... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6994341 | Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus equipped with the same A sheet feeding device in which sheets contained in a sheet container detachably attached to an apparatus main body are fed by a sheet feeder, including a sheet support member provided in the sheet container to vertically move while supporting the sheets, a lifter f... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6955350 | Sheet member positioning device A sheet member positioning device includes a plate on which a sheet member is loaded; a reference member provided at a side, in a first direction, of the plate, the sheet member being able to abut the reference member; a conveying member provided at a side, in a sec... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6942211 | Mobile printer and paper feeder A mobile, color printer capable of printing on letter-size plain paper and standard-size photo paper has a fold-up paper feeder that acts as a cover during travel. Such also serves as a storage tray for several sheets of paper to allow automatic feeding from a verti... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6896256 | Sheet transport apparatus and image formation apparatus therewith A sheet transport apparatus comprises a predetermined number of transport members 2 disposed in a sheet transport passage 1. At least a part of the transport members 2 is a multi-direction transport member 4 for variably setting the trans... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6889976 | Image recorder An image recorder is provided. For mounting two plates on a drum, two side-to-side adjustment sections are used. Each of the side-to-side adjustment sections includes an outer nut portion and an inner nut portion movable by respective ball screws in a first directio... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6840514 | Media alignment mechanism A media alignment mechanism of a printer having duplex capabilities has two spaced elements (33, 34) defining a predetermined return feed path. Two reference edge segments (50, 61) are disposed between the spaced elements and separated from each other ... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6802257 | Plate inserting apparatus A plate inserting apparatus includes a loader, a first regulating member, a second regulating member, and support plates, oscillating rollers, air cylinders, a shaft, and bars. The loader holds a new plate inserted in a lateral direction and feeds the new plate to a... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6801302 | Plate registering system and method of operation A substrate manager for a substrate exposure machine is used, in one example, as a platesetter. As such, it comprises a substrate storage system, containing one or more stacks of substrates, such as plates in one implementation. A substrate picker is provided for pi... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6793215 | Self-adjusting side guide for a mail handling device A self-adjusting side guide for a document-handling machine having a feed deck along which documents are transported is provided. The self-adjusting side guide includes a first member mounted for movement along the feed deck toward and away from the documents; a gui... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6702280 | Apparatus and process for transporting sheet-shaped print materials According to one aspect of the invention, an apparatus and process are provided for transporting sheet-shaped print material. A first transport element and a first contact element are actuated to transport a sheet-shaped print material with alignment agai... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6619648 | Sheet processing apparatus A sheet-sorting apparatus has a stacking tray to stack sheets formed with indicia thereupon, a processing tray to receive said sheets in the process leading to said stacking tray, and when necessary, a path to discharge directly to said stacking tray and ... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6594545 | Data processing apparatus, image recording apparatus, method of controlling data processing apparatus, method of controlling image recording apparatus and storage medium An image forming apparatus is connectable to a sheet processing apparatus having a plurality of stacking units for stacking recording sheets and capable of discharging recording sheets selectively to the plurality of stacking units. The image forming appa... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6561503 | Sheet processing device with stack alignment A sheet processing apparatus including a stacking portion for stacking sheets, an alignment reference wall disposed in approximately parallel with a conveying direction of the sheet, an alignment moving wall for performing alignment by making an end porti... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6454257 | Article jogging apparatus An article jogging apparatus for the lateral straightening of sheet material located on a conveyor includes a pair of vertically opposed timing belts. One belt being adjustable per product width as well as stream throat. The other belt oscillating between... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6416050 | Auto sheet feeder An auto sheet feeder has sheet supporting means provided on the frame of the main body of the apparatus and supporting sheets thereon, and sheet feeding means for feeding out the sheets supported on the sheet supporting means. A reference surface for regu... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6364311 | Negative-pressure control for a lateral pulling device A method of controlling negative-pressure level of a lateral pulling device for laterally aligning sheets through the intermediary of a rotary valve, includes having, during an accelerating phase of the lateral pulling device, a high-level negative pressu... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6315282 | Apparatus and a method for picking multiple-sized media sheets An apparatus capable of performing pick operations on multiple sizes in a printing device is disclosed. This apparatus separates a media sheet from a stack and drives it along a media path. The apparatus also corrects any pick skew of the media sheet caus... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6308949 | Material-feeding device having direction-correcting function A material-feeding device (14) includes a base (52), a material passage (54) formed on the base, at least one guide member (56, 58) provided in the material passage and having a material-guide surface (56a, 58a), a direction-correcting roller assembly (60... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6273418 | Sheet registration device and an image forming apparatus having the same A sheet registration device includes: sheet transporting means for transporting a sheet in a transport direction thereof; a sheet positioning member which is disposed in a side of a sheet transport path and in parallel with the transport direction; latera... | 08/14/2001 |
