Famous Patents
The first match was accidentally discovered in 1826 when John Walker scraped a stick with chemicals on the end against a stone floor.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181952 | Paper sheet handling mechanism and method for handling paper sheets A paper sheet handling mechanism and method includes a loop-shaped part configured to hold a paper sheet (W1). Once a paper sheet (W2) present on the upstream side of a transport path relative to the loop-shaped part is fed to the loop-shaped part, the... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8056893 | Media transport system A system and method for transporting a sheet of media through a print zone including a media entrance station, a media exit station and a first media transport translatable in a reciprocal manner between the entrance and exit stations. A second media transport trans... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7644915 | Device for the withdrawal of individual flat mail from a thinning section A device for withdrawing flat items of mail from a decollating section includes conveyor belts, and guide rollers. The conveyor belts extend around guide rollers and act unilaterally upon upright items of mail. The guide rollers are individually mounted, and, at an ... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7101037 | Image recording device An image recording device includes plural retaining units each of which retains a recording medium on circumference thereof, a printing head that forms an image on the recording medium, a loop unit that retains the plural retaining units on a closed path, a first dr... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7051926 | Integrated banknote validator and dispenser A combination banknote validator, banknote accumulator, banknote storage cassette and banknote dispenser is designed in a modular manner and the accumulator and banknote dispenser cooperate to additionally define part of a processing pathway therebetween. The bankno... | 05/30/2006 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6746010 | Apparatus for conveying sheet-like recording material An apparatus for conveying a sheet-like recording material is provided. The conveying apparatus includes a recording material feeding device for feeding the sheet-like recording material to a rotating drum from a feeding guide disposed in a direction tangential to t... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6622623 | Method for conveying sheets in a printing machine and a device for carrying out the method In a method for conveying sheets in a sheet-printing machine, the sheets are held securely in position on a circumferential surface of sheet-guiding cylinders with the aid of an adhesive, which can be detached again a number of times and does not transfer... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6592121 | Apparatus for synchronizing transfers of sheet material An apparatus for transporting a sheet material through a sheet-processing machine is described. The transport system for the sheet material has a drive that is driven independently of the cylinders on the stations processing the sheet material in the shee... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6574450 | Sheet pre-transfer device A sheet feeding device for an electrophotographic printing machine that minimizes trail edge flip when delivering a sheet to a photoreceptor at a desired tangential position. The sheet feeding device includes a baffle member which has two control points, ... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6296242 | Combination bill accepting and bill dispensing device A winding device for storing banknotes and dispensing banknotes previously stored comprises a driven winding drum adapted for rotation in a first direction to wind received banknotes on said drum and rotatable in a second opposite direction to dispense pr... | 10/02/2001 |
| 5887865 | Document feeder for image-forming apparatus and image-forming apparatus, using the same According to a document feeder for an image-forming apparatus of the present invention, when a double-sided document fed from a feed paper stacker, the document with the front surface thereof having been read out by a document reader unit is inverted in a... | 03/30/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5636832 | Apparatus for feeding sheet-like products to a discharge location A conveying belt is deflected around a stationary deflection roller and loops around the bottom of a deflection wheel. The deflection wheel is freely rotatably mounted on a lever and is prestressed in the direction towards the deflection roller by a sprin... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5634635 | Automatic document feeder An automatic document feeder for feeding and discharging a document or documents to and from a document handling device such as a copying machine includes a document supply unit having a separation roller and register rollers, positioning unit and dischar... | 06/03/1997 |
| 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 |
| 5478065 | Document feeding apparatus with ejecting means partly associated with transferring 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... | 12/26/1995 |
| 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 |
| 5342036 | High capacity sheet feeders for high volume printers A high speed sheet feeder for directing sheets to a host utilization device having a stack feed elevator platform accessed by a drawer provides a feed ramp for supporting a stack of sheets. Sheets in the stack are deshingled by a feeder singulator and dri... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5330316 | Sheet handling apparatus and method A sheet handling apparatus for accumulating a plurality of sheets into a stack (18) and for feeding the stack (18) to an exit location includes first feeding belts (30) for feeding sheets along a feed path to a stacking area (43) at which there is provide... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5126787 | Automatic document conveying device An automatic document conveying device for an image processor having a transparent plate disposed on the upper surface of a housing for placement of a document to be processed thereon. The automatic document conveying device comprises a document introduct... | 06/30/1992 |
| 5056775 | Document feeder which properly positions a document on the platen An automatic document feeder includes a document delivery belt for conveying a document, a pulse output switch for supplying pulses in synchronism with driving of the belt, and a counter for counting the number of the pulses supplied. The extent that the ... | 10/15/1991 |
| 4340314 | Envelope feeding apparatus A compact substantially self contained envelope feeding apparatus includes a magazine for holding a plurality of stacked envelopes which are dispensed through a bottom outlet by a two stage dispensing mechanism comprising spaced apart sets of drive roller... | 07/20/1982 |
| 4320963 | Original feeding system An original feeding system having a rotary drum provided with sheet original hold-down claws for clamping the leading edge of the sheet original against the surface of the periphery of the rotary drum and with a control mechanism for keeping the claws in ... | 03/23/1982 |
| 4314006 | Flexible document transport belt of ethylene propylene diene rubber A document transport belt for use in an automatic document handler in an electrostatographic copying machine is provided, which is made from an ethylene propylene diene rubber. The document transport belt of the invention has a stable coefficient of frict... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4193685 | Fixed message carrier Apparatus for selectively, typically repetitively, moving a fixed message document to and from a photographing position on a document camera system. Logic control means on a fixed messsage carrier apparatus coact with system-operating means and transport ... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4138102 | Automatic document processing device The present invention provides a document handling system having a processing device for transmitting information to and from a document and a document feed unit for driving the document along a feed path to the processing device. The system includes a pa... | 02/06/1979 |
| 4059259 | Automatic sheet changing for reprographic machine A cartridge for containing sheets to be fed into a reprographic machine comprising a container having an opening and a support band wound from a feed reel to a take-up reel mounted on said container, and carrying thereon sheets spaced along and interwound... | 11/22/1977 |
| 3936993 | Envelope filling machine An envelope filling machine including conveyor apparatus for transporting individual envelopes from a feed station to a filling station for receiving an insert therein. Positioned intermediate the feed and the filling stations there is provided a spreadin... | 02/10/1976 |
