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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7278634 | Device for controlling printed products A tape transport system for printed products includes a tape having a tape width, a pulley, and a lever arm supporting the pulley, the lever arm having a first side and a second side. The pulley has a first section disposed on the first side of the lever arm and a s... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7210679 | Method for conveying sheets through a printing machine and apparatus for implementing the method A method for conveying sheets through a printing machine and an apparatus for conveying the sheets permit adaptation of a sheet brake to various sheet thicknesses by reducing a speed of the sheets in the direction of advance by bringing the sheets individually one a... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7097956 | Imageable element containing silicate-coated polymer particle Imageable elements that contain silicate-coated polymer particles in the imageable layer, stacks of these elements, and methods for forming images using these elements are disclosed. The elements do not stick to each other when stacked without interleaving paper, an... | 08/29/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7021185 | Registration apparatus for a sheet material article handler A registration device for a sheet material article handler includes a movable backstop which sequentially engages a leading edge portion of a sheet material article as the article moves in a direction of movement along a path of movement in the sheet material articl... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6969061 | Roller element for hardcopy apparatus A printer or other hardcopy apparatus comprises a pinch system (20) comprising a pinch wheel (21) and a drive roller (23) in which the pinch wheel is arranged to contact a print media at locations which move continuously transversely of the dire... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6929148 | Bathroom caddy for disposable wet wipes A dual arm caddy to be attached to the spindle of a wall mounted toilet paper holder for carrying disposable wet wipes. The upper portion of each arm is attached by hooking the spindle, and the lower, utility portion is attached to a container inclined from front to... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6918588 | Device for separating printing products transported in an imbricated formation into a succession of spaced printing products A device for separating an imbricated formation (2) of continuously conveyed printing products (1) into a succession of spaced printing products (1), comprises a first conveyor (3) driven at a first velocity (v1), a second conveyor... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6910690 | Positive control lower folder A positive control signature transferring assembly, for use in a lower folder, transports and diverts signatures under positive control. The assembly has a first positive control deceleration device having grippers for transporting some of the signatures of a stream... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6779793 | Device for decollating flat objects, preferably printing plates The invention relates to a device for decollating flat objects from a stack, in particular objects individually separated from one another in the stack by interlayers, preferably printing plates. The object of the invention is to ensure that only one object is taken... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6572098 | Sheet diverter for collating signatures and a method thereof Provided is a sheet diverter for directing signatures moving in serial fashion along a diverter path to one of a plurality of collation paths. The sheet diverter includes a pair of diverter rolls for directing a signature to one of the plurality of collat... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6425580 | Recording medium transportation apparatus There is provided a recording medium transportation apparatus providing air suction to adhere a recording medium to a belt while the recording medium is being transported thereby, wherein the belt can have an optimized surface roughness and adjacent sucti... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6409043 | Sheet conveying apparatus The present invention provides a sheet conveying apparatus comprising a sheet feeding device for separating and feeding stacked sheets one by one, a convey guide device for guiding the sheet fed out by the sheet feeding device, a spacing device provided o... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6302392 | Sheet diverter for collating signatures and a method thereof Provided is a sheet diverter for directing signatures moving in serial fashion along a diverter path to one of a plurality of collation paths. The sheet diverter includes a pair of diverter rolls for directing a signature to one of the plurality of collat... | 10/16/2001 |
| 5427368 | Sheet-like article sort-out apparatus A belt conveyor is provided to feed veneers in the arrow-marked direction in the drawing. A porous transfer belt having numerous of air holes therein is stretched around so as to run above said belt conveyor. Inside the porous transfer belt, a suction hoo... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5374044 | Vacuum drum document handling system for an insertion device In accordance with the present invention a vacuum and belt document handling system comprises first structure for transporting individual documents along a document path in a first direction, second structure downstream from the first structure for transp... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5139386 | Apparatus for the stacking of printing products arriving in an imbricated formation Printing products (13) are fed by a conveyor track (11, 14) to a stack compartment (17), which can be charged from above, in an imbricated formation of the kind in which the printing products (13) lie in pairs congruently one on top of the other. In order... | 08/18/1992 |
| 5074547 | Multiple delivery system A high speed product delivery system is provided which delivers individual flexible web products from a product drum to three or more transfer drums. The transfer drums, in turn, deliver products to further transfer drums or to packaging devices. The syst... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5063415 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus comprising: an image forming device for forming a toner image on a photosensitive member; a transfer device for transferring the toner image to a recording paper sheet; a fixing device for fixing the toner image onto the recordi... | 11/05/1991 |
| 5062623 | Multiple delivery system A high speed product delivery system is provided which delivers individual flexible web products from a product drum to a plurality of transfer drums. The transfer drums, in turn, deliver products to further transfer drums or to packaging devices. The sys... | 11/05/1991 |
| 5048818 | Apparatus for subdividing a shingled stream of paper sheets An apparatus for splitting a shingled stream of paired coextensive sheets into two partial stream is advanced below an upper conveyor to which suction can be applied and which displaces the sheets at an acute angle to the main path defined by the lower co... | 09/17/1991 |
| 4735407 | Device for taking out sheets A device for taking out sheets comprising a temporary stacking section for temporarily stacking sheets to be transported, a take-out section provided on the take-out side of said temporary stacking section for taking out the sheets one by one, conveyers f... | 04/05/1988 |
| 4270910 | Apparatus for separating portions of flat material cut-out from a web or sheet The invention provides apparatus for separating portions of flat material cut-out from a web or sheet. First and second grippers respectively, which engage with first and second cut portions of flat material, are provided to travel along and define paths ... | 06/02/1981 |
| 4239117 | High speed document sorting means High speed document processing and sorting apparatus. A stream of documents is guided along a path at high speed. A detector is mounted along said path to detect identifiable documents. A magazine is mounted to receive the detected documents. A vacuum whe... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4216954 | Apparatus for diverting paper sheets or the like from a first path into a second path Apparatus for moving discrete sheets along a first path has a rotary hollow cylindrical foraminous barrel which is located below a portion of the first path and is adjacent to the inlet of a second path along which selected sheets move when a chamber whic... | 08/12/1980 |
| 4072305 | Photocopying machine having a repeat mechanism A photocopying machine is provided with a repeat mechanism. After the original material to be copied has left the exposure station a feed mechanism is provided by optionally returning the original material to the exposure station for making of a second co... | 02/07/1978 |
| 3947020 | Device for automatically separating a photosensitive sheet from an original for copying apparatus A device for separating a copy sheet and an original that are delivered together by copying apparatus along a common path, including suction means for drawing the original from the path and a curved guide plate for guiding the copy sheet as the original i... | 03/30/1976 |
