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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8146910 | Conveying device for feeding printed products to a processing unit A conveying device for feeding printed products to a processing unit in which the printed products are conveyed along a conveying path by a first conveyor, from a stack in which the printed products are arranged vertically, to a second conveyor which has a higher ci... | 04/03/2012 |
| 7594646 | Carton magazine with control sensor An infeed station for conveying and positioning a stack of carton blanks for sequential removal by a carton feeder, for automatically adjusting the rate of advancement of the carton blanks to compensate for excessive tilting and gaps between the carton blanks, and f... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7568689 | Bill receiving/dispensing box A recycle box to be mounted on a bill receiving/dispensing machine for receiving/dispensing bills which includes a stacking/separating mechanism arranged to stack the bills in the recycle box, and a support member enabling contact with at least one of ends of a stac... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7344016 | Method and device for orienting flat items of mail towards a narrow edge A method and device are disclosed for orienting flat items of mail towards a narrow edge in a U-shaped conveying channel in which they are conveyed in an upright position and without being jammed. Before the items pass the conveying channel for the purpose of alignm... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7333291 | System and method for reducing tracking noise in a tape drive There is provided a system and a method for reducing noise in a tape drive. More specifically, in accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a method of writing servo stripes comprising energizing a left servo gap while not energizing a right servo gap; energ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7275742 | Apparatus with springs for conveying sheets in a printing press An apparatus for conveying sheets in a printing press makes reliable sheet guiding possible with a low outlay on material and at low cost and includes an apparatus for conveying sheets in a printing press having at least one conveyor element for a sheet along a conv... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7222844 | Hopper loader with lateral deblocking The invention relates to a signature hopper loader and method for feeding signatures to a hopper on a binding line. The hopper loader includes a conveyor and a deblocker that work together to feed signatures to the hopper. The deblocker is preferably positioned adja... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7201369 | Vertical justification system A device and system for registering or justifying product such as mail pieces in a vertical position for future processing of such mail pieces. The system includes a mounting block having an angled bore and a driven alignment mechanism mounted within the angled bore... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7159861 | Device for the delivery or receipt of individual sheets A device for the delivery or receipt of individual sheets (16), comprises a parallelepiped container (12), in which the individual sheets (16) are stored in the form of a sheet stack (14) and are pressed against the container wall paralle... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7156605 | Substrate transport and marking assembly An apparatus for transporting and marking a substrate, such as a collapsed corrugated cardboard carton. A feeder station is configured to receive a substantially vertically aligned stack of substrates. An advancement assembly of the feeder station successively moves... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7140608 | Bill box for bill acceptor A bill box used in the bill receiver of a coin exchanger for accommodating banknotes received by the bill receiver is disclosed to have a gate installed in the first chamber thereof and a driving mechanism controllable to move the gate between two positions to close... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7077397 | High capacity document sheet processor A high capacity document sheet processor combines significant speed and efficiency enhancing improvements in existing approaches to stack feeding particularly in the stack loading, feeding and singulating functions with novel operational arrangements adaptable to a ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7029002 | Drop pocket system for reorienting flat articles A drop pocket system and method reorients flat articles in a serial stream, by horizontally receiving a horizontally moving, serial input stream of substantially vertically oriented flat articles, sensing reception of each flat article, engaging each sensed flat art... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7011302 | Vertical pocket feeder Vertical pocket feeder signature handling equipment which supplies signatures in an on-edge orientation one at a time to bindery equipment. The vertical pocket feeder particularly cooperates with a hopper loader apparatus which transfers and separates individual sig... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6942207 | Bill receiving/dispensing box A recycle box to be mounted on a bill receiving/dispensing machine including a bill convey path, includes a stacking/separating mechanism arranged to receive bills from the bill convey path so that the bills are contained in the recycle box, and to separate at least... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6905661 | System for sanitizing and sorting mail A mailpiece sorting apparatus is described which includes a feeder, an OCR scanner, a mailpiece transporter, a sanitizer and compartments or bins for receiving sorted mailpieces, an optical character recognition system (OCR) for reading addressee information, an add... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6629691 | Paper-leaves conveying apparatus In a paper-leaves conveying means for conveying a plurality of paper leaves, set together in a bundle in a depositing section, toward a paper-leaves feeding position where a separating/supplying belt exists, an arm is provided which is designed to be move... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6619647 | Device for loading a feeder rack In a device for loading further-processing machines with printed products, in particular a feeder rack (5) in gather-stitcher machines or gathering machines (6) for folded sheets (1), sheets, booklets or the like, which has a first conveyor arrangement (1... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6536756 | Aligner mechanism for a mail handling system The present invention provides an aligner apparatus which bottom edge aligns documents and separates documents and provides adequate gap between documents for subsequent processing. The an aligner apparatus includes first and second guide walls, forming a... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6533261 | Bill receiving/dispensing box To provide actions for stably holding, storing and discharging bills in a state, in which many sheets of bills are stored or in a state, in which bills are folded or broken due to a condition of circulation or not only Japanese Yen bills but also foreign ... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6467768 | Method and apparatus for conveying generally flat articles The method and apparatus for delivering generally flat articles one by one make use of first and second conveyors. The first conveyor has a top article-supporting surface operated at a first linear speed in a forward direction. In operation, a stack of ge... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6435498 | Aligner mechanism for a mail handling system The present invention provides an aligner apparatus which bottom edge aligns documents and separates documents and provides adequate gap between documents for subsequent processing. The an aligner apparatus includes first and second guide walls, forming a... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6373013 | Apparatus for sorting sheets or the like An apparatus for sorting and distributing sheet-like items, such as postal matter. A feeder successively feeds the sheet-like items to a stacker which is positioned above the feeder and on which the sheet-like items are stacked in an upright position. Bot... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6331000 | Currency recycling system and method for automated banking machine A media storage system for an automated banking machine (10) includes a flipper member (90, 178) which is rotationally movable to engage sheets. A gripper member (138, 182) is movably mounted relative to the flipper member. The flipper member further incl... | 12/18/2001 |
| 6328300 | Aligner mechanism for a mail handling system The present invention provides an aligner apparatus which bottom edge aligns documents and separates documents and provides adequate gap between documents for subsequent processing. The an aligner apparatus includes first and second guide walls, forming a... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6220590 | Hopper loader with a conveyer having slippage resistance The invention pertains to a hopper loader apparatus for separating and forming an overlapping shingled stream of individual signatures of sheet materials from a vertically aligned, parallelepiped shaped stack of such signatures for subsequent handling ope... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6179283 | Method for controlling an intermediate stacking device for flat shipments A method for controlling an intermediate stacking device for flat shipments, in particular in letter sorting facilities, comprising a stacking device (SR) on a movable stacking cart (SW), a bottom transporting belt (UB) on which the shipments are position... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6017029 | Hopper loader for feeding vertical signatures to bindery equipment A hopper loader apparatus for transferring and separating individual signatures of sheet material from a vertically aligned, parallelepiped shaped stack of such signatures. The separated, individual signatures may then be subjected to handling operations ... | 01/25/2000 |
| 6017028 | Hopper loader having arced conveyor for forming an overlapping stream of signatures from a vertical stack The invention pertains to a hopper loader apparatus for separating and forming an overlapping shingled stream of individual signatures of sheet materials from a vertically aligned, parallelepiped shaped stack of such signatures for subsequent handling ope... | 01/25/2000 |
| 5876028 | Letter stacker In a device for stacking flat letters having a separating mechanism and a stacking mechanism between which the letters are stacked, the stacking mechanism capable of moving in the stacking direction along a stacking surface, and a transport path that is f... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5775682 | Sheet transfer member having at least one outwardly opening sheet-receiving slot and sheet withdrawl portion and apparatus including such a member A sheet transfer member (17) has at least one outwardly opening slot (20) into which a sheet can be received. The member (17) is rotatably mounted in use so that a sheet in the slot (20) can be transferred to a sheet stacking position. A portion of the ro... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5749473 | Apparatus for sorting sheets or the like Apparatus for sorting sheets or the like, in which mail distributed to a number of collection sections can be easily recycled to a feeder for sorting the mail in accordance with the delivery order. Stackers, in which mail is sorted in accordance with addr... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5715924 | Game play media lending machine, for which bank notes can be used A bank note input from the outside is accepted for lending game play media. If change is to be given, a bank note is dispensed as the change. A bank note validation section (20a) takes in an input bank note, determines at least the denomination of the ban... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5653671 | Carton feeder assembly A carton feeder assembly is positioned substantially at the infeed conveyor level and includes a carton supply assembly, a carton selector, a carton opener, and a carton erector. The carton supply assembly has a carton supply position, a carton holding po... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5593044 | Apparatus for sorting sheets or the like An apparatus for sorting sheet-like items, in which the items, which are to be sorted to plural collecting sections, can be easily recycled to a feeder for sorting the items in multiple sorts in accordance with a desired sorting order or sequence. A stack... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5518121 | Method for automated mail extraction and remittance processing In a method for the automated processing of bulk mail, envelopes are transferred to a receiving apparatus in bulk fashion (from incoming mail trays or the like) for the extraction of documents contained by the envelopes, and the extracted documents are de... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5419542 | Automatic document feeder A sheet feeding apparatus includes an endless belt which is postioned to be adjacent to a rear part of a sheet stand on which trailing edges of a pile of sheets are loaded. The endless belt includes a holding member to hold a leading edge of a sheet that ... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5409204 | Singulator assembly having a buffer with a biased arm A singulator of the friction belt type capable of synchronous or asynchronous modes of operation is described. The singulator includes a buffer assembly for accepting a shingled stream of documents, a feeder pinch belt for extracting the first document fr... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5271613 | Apparatus for loading and picking sheets An apparatus for loading currency notes into and picking notes from a currency cassette (14) includes a movable support member (56) on which the cassette (14) is mounted and which is movable together with the cassette (14) between an operative position in... | 12/21/1993 |
| 5224697 | Device for the formation of a stack of flat articles, especially mail envelopes A device which forms a stack of flat articles such as envelopes is disclosed. A conveyor delivers flat articles to a movable carriage. The movable carriage includes a horizontal support and vertical support for aligning flat articles received. A stacking ... | 07/06/1993 |
