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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6047961 | Sheet sensor for use with a drum A sheet sensor arrangement for a sheet printing machine and particularly for a turning device of a sheet printing machine, which comprises at least one hollow cylindrical drum (3; 4), which has a gripper system to transport and/or temporarily store indivi... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6032944 | Paper re-pickup method of image forming apparatus In a paper re-pickup method for an image forming apparatus, if the initial attempt at paper pickup is unsuccessful, then the paper pickup is re-attempted automatically. The method includes the steps of: picking up the uppermost sheet of printing papers st... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032950 | Detecting device for detecting a transfer object A detecting device is provided for detecting a transfer object. The detecting device includes a reflection type sensor mounted on a support member, an actuator which is pivoted between a first position adjacent to the sensor and a second position away fro... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6022019 | Device for checking sheet articles such as bank notes An apparatus for testing sheet material with sensors having one or more components and fastened to the front of a base plate as separate units on one and/or both sides of a sheet material path. The fastening system includes a first fastening device which ... | 02/08/2000 |
| 6023034 | Inter-article gap adjustor for controlled delivery to a sorting device using a plurality of gap sensors A paper sorting apparatus includes first to fourth gap measuring units to measure gaps between sheets of paper. Using the gaps between the sheets varying between the respective gap measuring units, target gap correction values are stored for respective so... | 02/08/2000 |
| 6019362 | Sheet transfer apparatus A sheet transfer apparatus includes a sheet receiver for receiving a plurality of sheets, and a transfer mechanism for successively transferring each of the sheets from the sheet receiver along a predetermined transfer path. The sheet receiver has an open... | 02/01/2000 |
| 6010127 | Internal purge for easy jam clearance in copiers/printers An enlarged buckle chamber is positioned within an easily accessible, copy sheet transport path and used to compile sheets during fault cycle down in copiers/printers whenever sheets are prevented from reaching the output in sequence by jammed sheets. The... | 01/04/2000 |
| 6007062 | Method and apparatus for removing a jammed paper from an ink-jet printer A method and apparatus for removing a jammed paper from an ink jet printer is aimed at an efficient removal of the jammed paper. When an operator pulls jammed paper to remove it the feed roller rotates in response to such a motion, and a sensing unit sens... | 12/28/1999 |
| 6000871 | Printer and receiver supply tray adapted to sense amount of receiver therein and method thereof A printer and receiver supply tray adapted to sense amount of receiver therein, and method thereof. The printer comprises a print head for printing an image on the receiver and a supply tray associated with the print head for holding a plurality of cut sh... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5996993 | Bill handling machine A bill handling machine includes a take-out roller whose entire circumferential surface is formed with a high friction material and which is adapted to engage with leading edge portions of stacked bills and can take out the bills, a separation roller for ... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5988624 | Paper feeding device A cylinder-type paper feeding device designed so that the air suction fan in the paper feed cylinder is suspended at the moment each document conveyed by rotation of the paper feed cylinder reaches a sensor placed along the conveyer path, and after the la... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5983796 | Remaining paper detection apparatus for sheet-fed rotary printing press The apparatus includes a print switch, the remaining paper detection apparatus, and a controller and a remaining paper detection controller. The print switch sets a printing press to a printing operation mode. The remaining paper detection apparatus detec... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5978613 | Device for monitoring the operation of a fixing station of an electrographic printing device An apparatus is provided in a printer to prevent wrapping of the paper web onto the printer's fixing roller which fixes the toner particles onto the paper web. The apparatus includes a sensor to monitor the speed and moving direction of the web at the out... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5971388 | Automatic original document feeding device which has different procedures for correcting paper jams depending on where the jam occurs An automatic original document feeding device which can shorten a length of time required for refeeding sheets of the original document after a jamming of a sheet of the original document is cleared. When a trouble signal is received indicating that a she... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5964460 | Copying device with a printing medium detecting device Sheets stacked on the sheet tray are delivered and fed one by one along the sheet conveyance path by the rotation of a sheet-feed roller in cooperation with a frictional member. The sheet conveyance path has a sheet-feed actuator provided thereon for dete... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5963754 | Medium detection unit, medium conveyance apparatus and image formation system including a single sensor which detects medium passage, a fully accumulated condition and a jam condition A unit which detects a discharged condition of each of media with a simple and low-cost structure. For this purpose, this unit is designed to output a signal indicative of the passage of the medium, a signal indicative of a full accumulated condition of t... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5944645 | Finisher A finisher includes moving devices, which are movably mounted relative to a conveying path for applying additional-workings to a sheet having an image formed surface, such as a folding stopper which adjusts the position for folding the sheet, an aligning ... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5924686 | Method for controlling the velocity of sheet separation A method for controlling the feeding of sheet material from a sheet feeding device, in which the sheets are stored in a stack and are fed seriatim by a feeding means to a staged position, in which the sheet is partially ejected from the feeding device, an... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5897110 | Data processing apparatus having a movable hopper table A data processing apparatus including a drawable hopper table with a hopper and an image reading head. Sheets are conveyed from the hopper to a stacker arranged below the hopper table, and the stacker includes a pusher for discharging sheets. The hopper t... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5848789 | Medium supply apparatus with error detection The medium supply apparatus includes a delivery passage. In the delivery passage, there is disposed a manual feed tray which, if a cut sheet is manually loaded there, feeds the cut sheet to the delivery passage. The manual feed tray includes a sensor whic... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5843567 | Electrical component containing magnetic particles There is disclosed an electrical component having an axial direction and two ends for making electrical contact with another component comprising a plurality of electrically conductive fibers in a matrix, the plurality of the fibers being oriented in the ... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5833229 | Bindery feeder and method of operation A feeder for feeding material along a feed path. The feeder includes a conveyer, a sensor and a control system. The conveyer operates at a normal cyclical rate to transfer the material along the feed path. The sensor mounts on the feeder and detects the m... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5826156 | Image forming apparatus The size of a paper put in a tray for manual insertion is decided according to detectors provided in the tray. When detection precision of the paper size is not so high to determine paper size, it is instructed to specify a paper size manually. In another... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5813668 | Apparatus for conveying and staggering envelope contents for review by an operator A method and apparatus for conveying and staggering envelope contents includes a driven, substantially vertically positioned conveyor belt with an associated conveying slit, through which the envelope contents including documents to be staggered, are move... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5810348 | Delivery unit of a copying apparatus A delivery unit (1) of a copying apparatus is equipped with a paper delivery tray (2), provided in a top cover (4). The paper delivery tray (2) consists of at least one inclined delivery surface (2a, 2b) for a sheet stack, an output slot (10) formed by pa... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5806650 | Currency discriminator having a jam detection and clearing mechanism and method of clearing a jam A currency counting and discrimination machine for rapidly counting and discriminating currency bills is set forth having a jam detection and clearing mechanism. The machine has a transport mechanism which engages and transports the currency bills, one at... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5749569 | Document feeding apparatus having improved forwarding means A sheet feeding apparatus has a forwarding device for successively forwarding a plurality of sheets accommodated in a state of stacked layer one by one. The forwarding device is movable between a sheet forwarding position where the forwarding device is br... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5718526 | Printing method and printer using game A method and an apparatus for selecting printing either continuous paper or single sheet paper in a printer having a printing section at which each paper may be printed. Continuous paper is fed on a first path to the printing section. Sheet paper is fed o... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5708345 | Compact sheet cutter for a document reproduction machine A compact sheet feeding and cutting apparatus is disclosed which is particularly suitable for retrofitting to an existing document reproduction machine. The sheet feeding and cutting components are located within a common housing which can be mechanically... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5705020 | Device for controlling the production quality of a press that produces package blanks from sheets of material A device for controlling the production quality of a press, which manufactures package blanks from a sheet of material by transferring the sheet of materials, such as paperboard or corrugated board, chronologically through an infeed station, a die-cutting... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704491 | Method and apparatus for discriminating and counting documents A method and device for off-sorting documents of a specific type using a device capable of discriminating among different types of documents. A stack of documents are received in an input receptacle and transported, one at a time, past a document type dis... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5692741 | Method and apparatus for feeding sheets based on comparison of actual travel time and reference travel time In an operation for transporting a sheet by a first roller to a second roller pair downstream of the first roller, and further transporting the sheet by the second roller pair, the time during which the sheet is transported by the first roller is controll... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5690329 | Stack of image receiving sheets with detection mark A stack of image receiving sheets, wherein each image receiving sheet has on one side of a support an image receiving layer, includes a cover sheet protecting the image receiving layer of an outermost image receiving sheet. The cover sheet has a detection... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5683079 | Document processing apparatus In a document processing apparatus, transport means feed a document along a track past one or more processing devices such as scanning means or printing means. The apparatus includes first and second corrugating rolls (44, 45) between which a document is ... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5673907 | Misfeed detector for multi tray sheet feeders The invention relates to an apparatus for detecting sheet misfeed from a multi-tray sheet feeder. The thickness of the first sheet fed from each tray is detected by a common sensor and a thickness value is placed in memory for that tray. Each sheet subseq... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5671917 | Original convey apparatus with last original detection sensor The present invention provides an original convey apparatus with an original tray on which originals are rested, a conveyor for conveying the original on the original tray, a last original detector for detecting the fact that all of the originals on the o... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5667215 | Paper conveying device A paper conveying device of the present invention includes a roller to convey paper, a first and a second sensors to detect the paper conveyed through the roller and a timer to measure a time required from the time when the first sensor detects the paper ... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5662321 | Automatic document feeder with skew control The disclosed document feeder apparatus includes a document drive that comprises only a single line of feed rollers with a simple skew adjustment system. This drive is shown incorporated in a cassette-loaded automatic document feeder ("ADF") that is attac... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5622364 | Apparatus and method of determining a media level in a supply tray Apparatus and method is provided for determining a relative vertical position of a media sheet within a supply tray by sensing a picked sheet traveling through a media path, and therefrom determining time and/or distance traveled by the picked sheet. The ... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5615876 | Apparatus and method for sensing accordion jams in a laser printer An apparatus for detecting a transfer medium (i.e., paper) accordion jam in a processing path of a laser printer comprises an accordion detection flag pivotally disposed near the processing path. In the event an accordion jam occurs to the transfer medium... | 04/01/1997 |
