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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7775520 | Paper sheet conveyance apparatus and image forming apparatus There is described a paper sheet conveyance apparatus, which makes it possible to surely separate the overlapping paper sheets from each other irrespective of a kind of paper. The apparatus includes: a thickness detecting section to detect a thickness of a paper she... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7770889 | Sheet material sorter and pneumatic conveyance/diverting system therefor A sortation bin module having a conveyor and diverter module for pneumatically securing, releasing and diverting selected mailpieces to a bank of sortation bins. The conveyor module includes a conveyor surface for transporting sheet material along the feed path and ... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7244222 | Apparatus for and method of positioning a slider on mating zipper elements An apparatus used in the manufacture of a thermoplastic zipper having a slider mounted thereon includes a pair of clamp arms disposed on opposing sides of a path of the zipper. The clamp arms are movable in directions substantially perpendicular to the zipper path s... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7163133 | Apparatus for and method of moving a slider along mating zipper elements A manufacturing apparatus, for moving sliders for opening and closing mating zipper elements along the mating zipper elements, includes a roller and a projection. The roller rotates about an axis substantially perpendicular with a path of a film including the mating... | 01/16/2007 |
| 5879505 | Sheet separator for image recording process In a separator for separating a stripping sheet from a composite film formed by a base sheet and the stripping sheet which are superposed with each other, the composite film is first so carried and arranged that its forward end portion extends over a sepa... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5226870 | Vacuum drum purge method and apparatus A method and apparatus for supplying gas to a vacuum drum device and which substantially reduces or eliminates the problem of particle and debris buildup in the vacuum passages of the device is provided. The apparatus supplies gas, preferably at a pressur... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5163673 | Sheet-processing machine that prevents double feed by diverting the extraneous sheet A feed table for a sheet processing machine, includes a double-sheet detector, and a device controllable by the detector for separating out double sheets, respectively, supplied to the feed table together with sheets to be printed, the device including fi... | 11/17/1992 |
| 4919415 | 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... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4772008 | Apparatus and method for double sheet separation by vacuum ports An apparatus and method for separating doublets includes a device in which opposed surfaces that are connected to a vacuum source have a rippled portion in which vacuum slots are positioned at the apex of the ripples. There is a gradual transition in the ... | 09/20/1988 |
| 4736942 | Apparatus for separating moving superposed fabric layers Apparatus for separating moving superposed fabric layers includes structure defining upper and lower spaced-apart, opposed surfaces between which the superposed fabric layers are conveyed. Provision is made for directing jets of gaseous fluid along the su... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4702471 | Article transport arrangement An article transport arrangement for conveying articles along a pair of generally parallel transport paths from a first location to a second location includes a pair of vacuum belt conveyors which extend between the first and second locations, generally a... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4526360 | Process and apparatus for feeding bands to a pack A method and apparatus for feeding sheet shaped blanks to an article. The blanks are extracted from a magazine by a blank conveyor at a first point, and, occasionally, more than one blank is erroneously extracted. To ensure that only one blank is conveyed... | 07/02/1985 |
| 4515470 | Apparatus for exposing and then separating superposed original and light-sensitive sheets An apparatus, such as in a copying machine, by which an original sheet and a light-sensitive sheet can be fed along separate feed paths toward and onto one another and then one upon another through a station for exposure of the light-sensitive sheet to a ... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4397460 | Overlapped document detector An overlapped document detector for a document handling apparatus comprises an air knife in the primary document path to separate overlapped documents and forward them along separate ones of two secondary paths. Optical detectors focused on each secondary... | 08/09/1983 |
| 4266654 | Method and apparatus for separating groups of workpieces being conveyed in superposed overlapping formation Overlapping sheet articles on a first suction conveyor are intermittently diverted in groups by a lowerable second suction conveyor having a direction-changing roller which can be intermittently applied to the first conveyor and moved along therewith at t... | 05/12/1981 |
