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...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8157263 | Adjustable stacker infeed A stacker infeed machine providing adjustment of a gripper drum with respect to an overhead conveyor system. The infeed further provides for separate adjustment of a conveyor system with respect to the gripper drum without altering the vertical spacing between the g... | 04/17/2012 |
| 7946584 | Conveying arrangement for the takeover and transfer of printed products A conveying arrangement for printed products includes a feed conveyor to successively transport the printed products in a transporting direction to a takeover region, a transporting device having a transfer region to receive the printed products, and a circulating i... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7823882 | Transport apparatus A transport apparatus, including a first transport portion for transporting one signature, a second transport portion for transporting other signature, and a fan wheel for entering both sheets, which have been transported by the first and second transport portions, ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7789389 | Media dispenser and method for rejecting media A media dispenser has a delivery module for feeding media, a stacking module for stacking the media, which are fed through the delivery module, on a stacking plate, and a delivery clamp module for clamping the media stacked on the stacking module and delivering the ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7758045 | Media dispenser The present invention relates to a media dispenser. According to the present invention, there is provided a media dispenser. The media dispenser comprises guide plates 10 and 10′ installed to face each other with a predetermined spacing therebetween;... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7699313 | Paper sheet stacking apparatus A paper sheet stacking apparatus comprises a conveying device which has first and second conveying members, wherein take-out ends of the second conveying members are positioned on a more upstream side in a paper sheet conveying direction than a take-out end of the f... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7651093 | Stacking module of media dispenser and control method thereof The present invention relates to a stacking module of a media dispenser and a control method thereof. According to the present invention, there is provided a stacking module of a media dispenser. The stacking module comprises: stacking wheels rotated by a driving so... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7635130 | Device for placing sheets for a printer At least two sheet conveyors are provided in such a way that several of these conveyors can rotate around the common axis, essentially independent of one another, and thus one of these sheet conveyors is ready to accept or detect the next sheet, if another of these ... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7624983 | Device and method for stacking sheets A spiral slot stacker (1) has a stacker wheel (4) for accommodating sheet material (6, 7, 8), a stripper (2) for stripping off the accommodated sheet material (6, 7, 8) and a stack deposit (9) for stacking the stripped-off s... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7497438 | Bottom disk stacker employing a slotted disk to stack sheet material A bottom stacker having a pair of slotted disks to receive incoming mail pieces one at a time from an input nip. The mail pieces are separately placed in the slots and carried by the rotation of the disks to a stack support in the stacker. The stack support is dispo... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7438289 | Sheet material stacking apparatus A sheet material stacking apparatus comprises a shift sensor configured to detect the sheet conveyed by a branching path, a drop-down checking sensor configured to detect that sheet which reaches a scraping-out plate through the rotation of a rotatable blade-type ru... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7318586 | Method and device for stacking sheet material A spiral slot stacker has a two-part stripper 2 for stripping out sheet material from a stacker wheel 1. The two parts 2a, 2b of the stripper are movable. A first part 2a of the stripper is moved out of the sta... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7237773 | System for feeding and transporting documents A system for feeding and transporting documents includes a feeder stage and a transport stage. The hopper assembly includes a hopper floor that carries the document stack and a flag that provides a force to move the documents along the hopper floor toward the feeder... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7222850 | Transporting an essentially sheet-like element, particularly in a printing press Transporting an essentially sheet-like element, particularly for transporting a sheet of printing material in a printing press, in which the sheet-like element is picked up in the area of its leading edge by at least one rotating transport at a pickup site, transpor... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7219887 | Starwheel feed apparatus and method A starwheel feed apparatus and method for feeding and guiding sheets of a web material into a starwheel assembly. In some embodiments, a feeding conveyor is movable to convey sheets at a first velocity toward the starwheel, and a guiding conveyor is located adjacent... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7168697 | Device for delivering printed products and machine and method for processing printed products A device that is usable for delivering printed products includes two bucket or paddle wheels that can rotate about two different axes of rotation. Each bucket or paddle wheel includes a plurality of scoop-type elements that can receive printed products from a first ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7121201 | Printing press folder with air knife The folder of a printing press includes an air knife assembly to reduce damage to signatures as they travel through the folder and to guide signatures through the folder. ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7066462 | Method of and apparatus for stacking sheets of paper and the like A stream of successive sheets of paper, foil or the like is converted into a series of piles at a stacking station where successive sheets are caused to descend onto a pallet which is adjacent a monitoring device serving to transmit signals denoting the levels of su... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7044902 | Printing press folder and folder components A folder operable to cut a printed web received from a printing press. The folder includes a cutting section having cutting cylinders that cut the web into individual printed products, and a cutting motor that is operable to drive the cutting cylinders. A delivery a... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7040618 | Stacking unit for articles sheet form Stacker 1 for sheet-shaped objects is described having feeding device 3 for depositing sheet-shaped objects 2 in storage pocket 4 with variable capacity. Storage pocket 4 has contact surface 5 against which sheet-shaped obje... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7017900 | Transporting an essentially sheet-shaped element, particularly a print material sheet Transporting an essentially sheet-shaped element, particularly for transporting a print material sheet in a printing press in which the sheet-shaped element is taken hold of by at least one rotating transport having at least one mouth-like receptacle for introducing... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7007951 | Transport disc for an opening device of a printed sheet feeder A transport disc for an opening device of a printed sheet feeder is arranged on a first opening drum of the opening device and has at least one outer elastic support. The outer elastic support cooperates with a securing disc of a second opening drum of the opening d... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7004463 | Conveying arrangement for processing printed material to printed products A conveying arrangement for processing printed material to printed products has a conveying member supplying printed material and an intermediate conveying device with compartments rotating about an axis of rotation and formed by two opposed adjustable plates. The c... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6889970 | Delivery apparatus for folding machines A delivery apparatus for folding machines having a folding apparatus FA and a delivery apparatus DA, comprising a delivery fly 3 for receiving signatures S1, S2 and S3 folded by the folding apparatus FA, a conveyor C for operating the del... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6877740 | Starwheel feed apparatus and method A starwheel feed apparatus and method for feeding and guiding sheets of a web material into a starwheel assembly. In some embodiments, a feeding conveyor is movable to convey sheets at a first velocity toward the starwheel, and a guiding conveyor is located adjacent... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6832723 | Scanner apparatus and multifunction device having a scanner A multifunction device having a pressure feed roller opposite a scanner that advances a sheet while holding it against the scanning glass and avoids sheets being caught by the pressure feed roller and prevents jams and shifts in the feed pitch using a retraction mec... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6820870 | Device for opening and inserting printed products in a gathering line An insertion and gathering device having two deflection wheels, a conveying apparatus circulating around the deflection wheels, receiving containers coupled to and moved along successively by the conveying apparatus with each receiving container having a pocket with... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6796557 | Sheet processing apparatus having a plurality of calculation sections There is disclosed a processing apparatus of sheets using an accumulation device of a vaned wheel system including a vaned wheel having a plurality of blades arranged at a predetermined interval in a rotation direction, and rotating, thereby allowing continuously fe... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6793211 | Pocket wheel feeding device A feeder for collecting printed sheets in an astride position includes a pulling-off drum which has at the circumference thereof gripping members for pulling off printed sheets stacked in a magazine. The feeder further includes a unit for conveying the printed sheet... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6755415 | Leaf treatment device and a method for adjusting a leaf treatment device In a sheet-processing apparatus, banknotes are separated by a separator (10) and fed to a depositing arrangement (18) via a sensor and transporting unit (8). Depositing takes place in different depositing compartments in accordance with depositi... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6666449 | Star wheel surface enhancement and process of manufacture A star wheel manufacturing process, and a star wheel manufactured thereby, suitable for an ink jet printer. Metal is formed by chemical milling, subtractive etching or the like, into the desired star wheel configuration, including a plurality of radially ... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6623001 | Sheet stacking apparatus and method for controlling the feed of sheet material into a stacking wheel In a sheet stacking apparatus, in particular spiral slot stacker, one determines the relative position of a group of sheets 7A, 7B, for example distance ta between the sheets or total length tL of overlapping sheets. Sheet sensor 16 ... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6619653 | Offset sheet stacker having deflection wheels mounted of a shaft inclined to sheet transport direction An offset sheet stacker device for flexible sheet material (2), especially paper, with at least one deflection wheel (3) which has at least one receiving slot (4) which is located essentially tangentially, a sheet feed device (5) which discharges into at ... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6612563 | Stacking and counting device for planar products The device stacks successive planar products (newspapers) and separates a plurality of the products into individual stacks. A circular conveyor has a plurality of grippers thereon which are spaced apart by a circumferential distance, grasps the planar pro... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6581927 | Device for separating groups of sheets in an apparatus for forming and banding groups of sheets, such as banknotes A device for separating groups of sheets may be used on an apparatus for forming and banding groups of sheets comprising at least one track to feed the individual sheets to a pick up roller for the individual sheets arriving and to transfer said sheets to... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6575461 | Single/double sheet stacker A sheet-stacking apparatus capable of receiving two sheets at substantially the same time, which includes a disk unit including four substantially identical rotatable disks, each disk including a receiving slot for receiving a portion of a sheet therein. ... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6554273 | Method and device for forming a wad of individual sheets In the case of a method of, and an apparatus for, forming a bundle of individual sheets, in particular banknotes (98), which are drawn off individually from a sheet-storage container, fed, via a sheet conveyor (14), to a stacking-wheel arrangement (16) co... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6543766 | Device for forming and transferring ordered stacks of bank notes Bank notes arriving from a control machine are fed along a feed pipe which has a plurality of outfeeds, each connected to an infeed zone of a forming channel along which an accompanying element moves, equipped with a surface on which the bank notes are re... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6494447 | Stacker wheel control apparatus and method utilizing start-stop synchronization An inspection and/or processing apparatus for sheets such as banknotes includes a stacker wheel arrangement in which, rather than continuously rotating the stacker wheel and decelerating or accelerating the wheel to adjust the wheel speed in order to caus... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6464218 | Delivery apparatus for a printing press An improved delivery section of a folder of a printing press in which the bucket assemblies and side guides are adjustable to accommodate varying widths of signatures.... | 10/15/2002 |
