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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7938391 | Apparatus for feeding print products in a conveyed flow to a processing device An apparatus for feeding print products, conveyed in a flow, to a processing device. The apparatus includes a feeding device including a first conveyor and a downstream-connected second conveyor. A guide arrangement is provided with side-adjustable guide members hav... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7347418 | Method and apparatus for overlapping sheets in a sheet feeder and providing the overlapped sheets to a printing press The present invention is directed to a sheet feeding apparatus and method. In particular this invention comprises a sheet feeding apparatus having a first conveyance member, a second conveyance member, and a sheet bending member. The first conveyance member conveys ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7281710 | Conveyor system and method of setting operation thereof A conveyor system has a monitor for entering information about sheets, an input/output control console for setting operating conditions of a first conveyor and a second conveyor based on the information about the sheets, and a power control console for operating the... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7267053 | Delivery device for a sheet-processing machine The invention relates to a delivery device for a sheet-processing machine. The object of the invention is providing a delivery device on a sheet-fed rotary printing machine, that can be universally used and permits quality control of the printed and/or laminated she... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7247130 | Method of forming composite informational item A method of forming a composite informational item having information regarding a pharmaceutical product printed thereon from a first informational item, such as a bidirectionally folded outsert or a booklet, and a second informational item, such as a bidirectionall... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7232122 | Jam detection method and system for an inserter A document assembly system with jam detection capability. The system including an accumulation chassis having a series of pusher fingers for pushing collations of documents. Above the chassis, document feeders release documents to the chassis to form the collations.... | 06/19/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7133640 | Stapler/stacker for front-oriented front-access printers A front-oriented, front-access printer (FOFAP) is disclosed, the FOFAP configured with a front-mounted fuser, the FOFAP comprising a print mechanism, a main paper path passing through both the print mechanism and the fuser, a media flipper for directing the paper in... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7099618 | Paper discharge tray A tray and a method thereof that uses the tray including a surface with a first end and a second end opposite to the first end a projection extending away from the surface and from the second end of the surface and a recess formed below the surface and from the proj... | 08/29/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7003258 | Transfer device, transfer method and image forming device A transfer device for transferring an object to be transferred in a predetermined direction has a drive mechanism unit, a transfer direction displacement information acquiring unit, a skew direction displacement information acquiring unit, and a transfer processing ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6978998 | Positioning structure of roller adapted for an auto document feed apparatus A positioning structure of a roller adapted for auto document feed apparatus includes a flexible shaft and a flexible arm. The flexible arm has a first portion integrally formed with the flexible shaft, a second portion arranged into a clamping portion of auto docum... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6893175 | Method and system for high speed digital metering A system and a method to control the motion of envelopes within a postage printing module to accommodate the use of slower print techniques and to achieve continuous high speed throughput in a mail processing system. At least two print heads in series are utilized t... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6877427 | Quality control device A quality control device includes a suction box, at least one gripper which can be displaced along a suction surface of the suction box, and a CCD camera. A belt, which can be displaced in a sheet transport direction, is disposed on the suction surface of the suctio... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6783290 | Method and system for high speed digital metering using low velocity print technology A system and a method to control the motion of envelopes within a postage printing module to accommodate the use of slower print techniques and to achieve high throughput in a mail processing system. The system transports envelopes according to a motion profile in w... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6619649 | Automatic sheet feeder An automatic document feeder (ADF) used in a facsimile machine, photocopier or the like. A sheet path from a sheet inlet to outlet is defined by lower, intermediate and upper frames of the ADF. The sheet path is generally shaped like "C" when viewed later... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6616139 | Device for removing printed products transported uniformly spaced on a transport device A device for removing printed products, having a fold and being transported uniformly spaced and astraddle by a transport device, has a rotatingly driven gripping device with controlled gripping elements for gripping one of the printed products by the fol... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6568674 | Paper feeding apparatus A paper feeding apparatus including a feed roller supplying paper to a image reading position and a discharge roller discharging the paper. A load in the rotational direction is provided at the discharge roller to prevent the image reading turbulence at t... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6110088 | Integrated transport system A integrated transport system includes automated mass mailing material handling. An infeed accepts material directly the output of a folder, applies an address to each article, and outputs the addressed articles on a collection table. Because the infeed i... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6074723 | Rotating mat with holding flaps, for switching machines A rotating mat for switching equipment, fitted with one or more holding flaps and elements capable of exerting a recalling force on the mat when the flaps are on the transmission rollers, wherein the elements which exert the recalling force are flexible e... | 06/13/2000 |
| 5908116 | Mail accumulating device A mail accumulating device having a number of stream forming units, each of which has a pair of powered belts superimposed at a point of contact defining the input of the unit. Each stream forming unit is provided with a sensor for detecting the passage o... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5876029 | Feeder assembly apparatus The present invention relates to a sheet material feeder apparatus that includes a first feeder assembly positioned on an exit area of a sheet material storage compartment, which first feeder assembly is operative to provide a first driving force to a she... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5794927 | Sheet conveying apparatus The present invention provides a sheet conveying apparatus in which a belt is wound around an outer peripheral surface of a convey rotary member for conveying a sheet and an outer peripheral surface of a drive pulley for transmitting a rotational force to... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5676362 | Vacuum-type transport device for printing units for packaging cardboard sheets A vacuum-type transport device, used in cardboard printing units, comprising: a support structure; a suction hood; a vacuum fan; a plurality of plates on the lower surface of the suction hood; a first and a second plurality of belt-type conveyor means, wi... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5660383 | Sheet recording material transport apparatus A film transport apparatus (3) for sheet film is provided on the rear side of a cassette loading/unloading unit and a processing unit (2) positioned next to the latter. Film transport apparatus (3) comprises a transport table which can be moved back and f... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5584473 | Document feeding apparatus with ejecting means partly associated with transfering means A transferring device for feeding a document to a predetermined position and further transferring the document from the predetermined position and an ejecting device for ejecting the transferred document are formed in a simple structure to have the same t... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5494271 | Transmission system for a document feeder An improved transmission system for a document feeder, in which a constant one-way-rotating gear train is mounted in an output zone so as to cause a transmission shaft in the output zone to rotate in one direction only to send out a sheet of document no m... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5488463 | Image forming apparatus to form images onto a sheet a plurality of times An apparatus for forming an image onto a transfer sheet a plurality of times includes an image forming unit for forming an image onto a sheet which is conveyed; first and second conveying units for conveying the sheet from the image forming unit to the im... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5356129 | Press feeding apparatus A conveying mechanism for a press having sucker fingers which lift horizontally positioned items. The mechanism having two conveying sections for supporting imbricately arranged items, the first conveying section delivering to the second and the second se... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5353938 | Method of sorting objects The present invention concerns a method of sorting objects in N passes into R receptacles. The method includes the following steps: recording information comprising N criteria per object, classifying the objects in memory in a given order, so as to assign each of ... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5297785 | Pre-feed shingling device for flat-article feeder A transport mechanism for transporting flat documents placed therein on edge uses a horizontal conveyor belt to convey stacks of documents on-edge in a first feeding direction. Tapered rollers with a feeding direction perpendicular to that of the conveyor... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5203553 | Automatic document feeder Disclosed is the structure of a clutch mechanism of an automatic document feeder of a fax machine. The structure is fully mechanical, without any electromagnetic member. A combination of springs and pulleys are utilized to substitute for the conventional ... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5120038 | Automatic document conveying device for an image processing machine An automatic document conveying device for an image-processing machine including a housing having on its upper surface a transparent plate on which to place a document to be processed. This device comprises an opening-closing frame member mounted on the h... | 06/09/1992 |
| 5120037 | Automatic document feeder An automatic document feeder includes a conveyor belt for transporting a document, a document guide disposed downstream from the conveyor belt and which includes a holding portion in the form of a circular arc, and a discharge roller disposed in such a po... | 06/09/1992 |
| 5110103 | Image forming apparatus with improved document feeder An image forming apparatus has an automatic original feeder for conveying an original along a path to a transparent platen. This automatic original feeder conveys the original to a position where it lies between the platen and an original conveying device... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5033728 | Document feeder An apparatus which includes a feeding device for feeding a document onto a document platen on which the document is irradiated by a light source to obtain a copy image and a discharging device for discharging the irradiated document from the document plat... | 07/23/1991 |
| 4934681 | Hybrid output duplex copying system A copier with a coordinated hybrid or non-sequential postcollation sorter operation is disclosed in a hybrid copying system comprising a document feeder with a document bypass loop for copying documents in desired non-linear page sequences for improved co... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4905044 | Document conveying apparatus A document conveying apparatus having a document conveying path, a plurality of document conveying units, and a plurality of document detecting units, the conveying and detecting units being disposed along the conveying path. The apparatus includes an ins... | 02/27/1990 |
| 4787615 | Device for automatically supplying/discharging photosensitive material in an inclined-type step and repeat machine A device for supplying/discharging PS plates in an inclined-type step and repeat machine having a rearwardly inclined exposing table which includes a supplying holder disposed on a side of the exposing table for supplying the PS plate thereto, the holder ... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4777511 | Automatic document feeding device for an electrophotographic copying apparatus An automatic document feeding device additionally provided with a function of feeding the original to the transparent platen at a first feed position thereof when the original is fed from the original feeding section to the original delivering section, an... | 10/11/1988 |
