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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8033545 | Method and control arrangement for transporting printing material An object of the present invention is to improve the process sequence in a printing machine. Another object of the present invention is to increase the operational life of the printing machine. A method has been provided for transporting printing material (9)... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8020861 | Sheet conveyance device and image forming apparatus A sheet conveyance device according to an aspect of the invention includes a conveyance roller pair which is rotated to convey a sheet by receiving a driving force from a motor conveying a sheet; a conveyance guide which guides the sheet conveyed by the conveyance r... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7984904 | Document processing system with mechanism for detecting staples, paper clips, and like foreign items A document processing system includes a document track composed of a pair of opposing rigid track walls. The documents are moved along the document track in a series to allow operations to be performed on the documents. An apparatus for detecting a document with an ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7959151 | Image forming apparatus and recording medium conveying device included in the image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus conveying a recording medium through a sheet conveying path may include a recording medium conveying device, and includes an edge position detector to detect a position of a side edge of a recording medium along a width direction perpendic... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7909324 | Sheet conveying system, control method therefor, control program for implementing the method, and storage medium storing the program A sheet conveying system which is capable of preventing a jammed sheet from being mixed with processed sheets, reducing waste in sheets and toners, and further alleviating the user's operations, when jamming has occurred during passing of a sheet between respective ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7883087 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a judging unit for judging as to whether paper jamming occurs in the medium feeding unit at a time that the paper jamming occurs in the medium conveyance route and a controller for controlling the medium positioned on an upstream ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7883088 | Apparatus for singling of sheet material Apparatus for singling sheet material, in particular bank notes, which is inputted into an input area of the apparatus as a stack and is transported up to a singler, which transfers individual pieces of sheet material of the stack of sheet material to a sheet transp... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7802792 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus 1 has an intermediate transfer belt 17 that rotates in synchronization with the operation of a photoconductive section 11 where a toner image is formed, and a secondary transfer section S at which paper P temporarily a... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7802791 | Image forming system and control method therefor, and control unit for image forming apparatus An image forming system including an image forming apparatus and a sheet feeding apparatus. The system includes: a first conveying unit conveying to the image forming apparatus a recording material; a second conveying unit conveying to an image forming unit of the i... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7775519 | Large capacity sheet feeding apparatus having an intermediate conveying device A sheet feeding apparatus includes a sheet stacking section configured to stack a number of sheets, a sheet feeding mechanism configured to feed the sheet stacked on the sheet stacking section one by one, and an intermediate conveying device configured to convey the... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7694963 | Document feeder In a document feeder, a driving control unit feeds a document by a switch-back feeding unit, guides again the document from a document feed path to a bidirectional feed path, and then discharges the document from the document feed path to a document discharging sect... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7673874 | Paper sheet handling apparatus A paper-money receipt/payment machine comprises a conveyance path, on which paper sheet can be conveyed in dual directions, and a paper-money discrimination unit provided midway the conveyance path to discriminate the paper sheet. The machine further comprises a tem... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7635129 | Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet conveying apparatus that conveys a sheet serving as a recording medium and effectively reduces energy consumption includes a movable sheet supporting device configured to support sheets, a sheet size detecting device configured to detect a size of the sheets... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7600752 | Sheet feeding device A sheet feeding device includes a stacking plate, a moving mechanism, a pick-up device, a detection plate, a detecting device, and a control section. The stacking plate is movably supported inside the sheet feeding device. The mechanism moves the stacking plate up a... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7556265 | Document processing system with mechanism for detecting staples, paper clips, and like foreign items A document processing system includes a document track composed of a pair of opposing rigid track walls. The documents are moved along the document track in a series to allow operations to be performed on the documents. An apparatus for detecting a document with an ... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7455293 | Sheet handling machine A sheet handling apparatus for handling a sheet therein, comprises, a first body including a first transfer path along which the sheet is driven to be moved, a second body including a second transfer path along which the sheet is driven to be moved, an interface are... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7448620 | Scanning apparatus and method of preventing damage of gears of the same A scanning apparatus and a method of preventing damage of gear may include a driving roller to transfer a document sheet while being in contact with a scanning glass of a reading unit and configured to be spaced-apart from the scanning glass so that a jammed sheet c... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7431282 | Document inverting-and-transporting apparatus A document inverting-and-transporting apparatus includes a transport path, an inversion-and-transport path, a document transporting unit, a closed portion, a document length detecting unit, a comparing unit, a controlling unit. The transport path includes a first ro... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7431291 | Delivery processing apparatus and image forming apparatus The present invention relates to a delivery processing apparatus comprising an alignment stage, an aligning means having an alignment member operable to align a sheet on the alignment stage and to escape to a home position during a non-alignment period, a conveying ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7427259 | Sheet folding device, sheet processing apparatus, and image forming system including the sheet folding device A sheet folding device, method, and computer program product for conveying one of a sheet and a sheet bundle with pressure by a sheet conveying unit toward a sheet position adjusting unit; moving the sheet position adjusting unit to a standby position located downst... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7424942 | Banknote handling apparatus A first sensing means, which may form part of a banknote authenticator, is used to determine the profile of, for example, at least the leading edge of a banknote. Actuators located elsewhere in the banknote handling machine are operated in accordance with the output... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7413182 | Printing system and method A system and method includes a printing system assembly and controller. The printing system assembly is configured to separate media from a printer input during a separation time and then deliver it to a printer marking engine. The controller is configured to measur... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7404558 | Sheet supplying device and sheet processing device using detecting lever A sheet supplying device has a sheet delivering roller for delivering sheets one by one; a feeding roller for feeding the sheet delivered by the sheet delivering roller; a pinch roller urged by the feeding roller to be rotated by the feeding roller; a detecting leve... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7401778 | Multi-sheet feed detection system A multi-sheet feed detection system comprises a photosensor configured to receive light emitted in a non-visible spectrum by a transmitter through at least one sheet, and a detection module configured to detect a multi-sheet feed condition based on an amount of non-... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7396101 | Inkjet recording device with contact-area detection unit An inkjet recording device, capable of reliably detecting obstacles such as wrinkles or foreign particles on a recording medium, is provided with a clearance sensor mechanism for detecting foreign particles and wrinkles on the recording medium. In such an inkjet rec... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398047 | Image tracking control algorithm An image-to-sheet closed loop registration system tracking the image drum position and/or velocity and coordinating movement of the sheet into the transfer nip based on such information. ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7392743 | Thickness detecting apparatus There are provided a thickness detecting apparatus which can restrain erroneous detection even though a sheet or the like overlaps with only a part of a rotary body, and, which can enhance the degree of accuracy of detection, comprising a cylindrical displaceable ro... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7386964 | Sheet processing apparatus capable of processing conveying jam A sheet processing apparatus comprises an upper unit, a lower unit and a banding unit. When sheets being conveyed are jammed in the upper unit, the upper unit is stopped and the processes of the lower unit and the banding unit are continuously executed. After the up... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7370862 | Apparatus for detecting double-feed of paper Disclosed are an apparatus and method for detecting double-feed of paper to prevent banking accidents or jam in a paper handling machine for handling paper, sheets of currency note are not separated by a sheet separating means and thus plural sheets are double fed. ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7357306 | Multiple sheet detector apparatus and method A detector for a deposit accepting apparatus of an automated banking machine includes an ultrasonic transmitter driven by a driving signal operative to cause the ultrasonic transmitter to transmit an ultrasonic sound signal through a sheet pathway of the detector. T... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7339654 | Sheet conveying apparatus and image reading apparatus A sheet conveying apparatus is provided including a sheet feed tray on which sheets of a plurality of sizes are placed. A conveying unit conveys a sheet on the sheet feed tray to a predetermined processing position. A sheet position detector has a plurality of light... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7334787 | Paper feeding apparatus When the sheets are taken out sheet by sheet and started to be fed, in a first predetermined section, a driving mode is set to a fixed PWM driving mode, and a DC motor is driven in response to a PWM signal of a fixed duty to perform the sheet feed operation (S110... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334788 | Sheet feeder for feeding recording sheets while separating these A sheet feeder is provided, which includes: a sheet feed member and a separating member which form a nip portion by pressing each other, the separating member rotates following the sheet feed member when a first recording sheet is inserted into the nip portion, and ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334786 | Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet feeding apparatus includes a sheet feeding tray, a lock mechanism that locks the sheet feeding tray, a sheet feeding unit that feeds sheets from the sheet feeding tray one by one, an opening and closing unit that opens and closes a conveyance path, a sheet d... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7322481 | Automated banking machine which dispenses, receives and stores notes and other financial instrument sheets An ATM (10) includes a housing (46) including a generally L-shaped chest portion (48) and an upper housing portion (54). The ATM includes a fascia (12) which extends on the outside of a wall (14) and includes a user interfac... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7320464 | Original reading device with controller An original reading device includes a registration roller located upstream of an original reading position in an original transport path for adjusting the timing of feeding an original to the original reading position. There is at least one original feed roller for ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7317551 | Method and apparatus for tab sheet printing There are provided a printing control apparatus and printing system which can accurately print index information on the tab portion of a tab sheet without any print offset. A position where index information (Section 1-Section 5) is to be printed on ea... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7296789 | Sheet feeder, image reading apparatus, and image forming apparatus It is determined whether or not a jammed document is necessarily returned to a document tray when a jam of the document is caused within a carrier path and, then, the elevation operation of the document tray is controlled on the basis of its result of the determinat... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7293768 | Image forming apparatus Disclosed is an image forming apparatus allowing travel of a tabbed sheet, in which even when a tabbed sheet is made to travel, no erroneous jamming detection occurs, thus allowing the tabbed sheet to travel in the same manner as in the case of an ordinary sheet. Th... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7293769 | Sheets separation/conveying apparatus A sheets separation/conveying apparatus has a pick-up roller to take out sheets in the piled up state on the conveying path. The sheets taken out on the conveying path are checked when passing the first roller and plural sheets being conveyed in the overlapped state... | 11/13/2007 |
