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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7278634 | Device for controlling printed products A tape transport system for printed products includes a tape having a tape width, a pulley, and a lever arm supporting the pulley, the lever arm having a first side and a second side. The pulley has a first section disposed on the first side of the lever arm and a s... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7192023 | Bill handling apparatus A bill handling apparatus has a deposit/withdrawal unit (2) at the upper side of a casing (1), a base unit (3) at the lower side of the casing (1), and intermediate units 4A to 4C. The deposit/withdrawal unit (2) incl... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7168473 | Apparatus for making a nonwoven synthetic-resin web or fleece A web or fleece of synthetic resin strand collected on a sieve belt is discharged from the sieve belt into further processing equipment over a rerouting roller at the discharge end of the sieve belt. The rerouting roller is perforated and air or another fluid medium... | 01/30/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6979071 | Image recording apparatus An image recording apparatus for recording an image on a recording medium includes a conveying belt for supporting and conveying the recording medium, and a recording head for recording the image by jetting ink onto the recording medium. The apparatus further includ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6976801 | Method and system for transporting mailpieces in a printing station The present invention describes a double belt transport system for moving a mailpiece into a printing area of a digital printer. The transport system includes an upper belt and a lower belt. The upper belt has a straight section to form a nip with the lower belt to ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6731412 | Image forming device An imaging device is provided including a script setting plate for setting thereon a script to be read, a script positioning plate located near one end of the script setting plate and supported for up-and-down movements, a script positioning plate supporter selectiv... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6640077 | Image forming apparatus In an image forming apparatus wherein the slip of a transporting belt relative to a driving device due to a change in the surface state the inner surface of the transporting belt and a bad image can be reliably prevented, and having a photosensitive drum ... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6557843 | Document feeder with linking mechanism An automatic document feeding apparatus of the present invention is arranged such that a transportation unit 24 (enclosing a pre-feeding roller 25, a pair of paper feeding rollers 26, a pair of resist rollers 27, a reading section 28, a pair of dischargin... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6328440 | Buckling control for a heated belt-type media support of a printer An approach for managing the thermal stresses introduced into a heated belt of the type used for transporting media through an ink-jet printer so that the portion of the belt that transports the print media through the print zone does not buckle. The temp... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6182567 | Printing press with an actuator A printing press having an actuator, includes a chamber partly surrounding the actuator and having a pressure prevailing therein that is greater than the pressure in the outer surroundings of the chamber.... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6145827 | Automatic document conveyer An automatic document conveyer comprising a moving frame turnably mounted on a machine housing via a hinge mechanism and a conveyer belt mechanism mounted on the moving frame. The conveyer belt mechanism includes a support frame, a drive roller and a driv... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6113095 | Belt supporting device and automatic document feeding apparatus using the device A belt supporting device includes a first support member for supporting a belt pulley, the member having a smaller width than that of the outer peripheral surface of the pulley, an endless belt wound on the pulley, a second support member for forming betw... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6113091 | Automatic document feeder An automatic document feeder for use with an image forming apparatus, for conveying a document on a platen of the apparatus, includes a rotating conveyance belt for pressing the document to the platen thereby conveying the document along the platen; a pre... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6045278 | Apparatus for transporting and printing print media An apparatus for transporting and for printing print media has an inclined guide plate and a transport mechanism orthogonal to this guide plate and an auxiliary device. An ink jet print head controlled by a control unit is rigidly arranged in a recess of ... | 04/04/2000 |
| 5967505 | Automatic feeder and inverter for fabric workpieces An apparatus is provided for feeding fabric workpieces one at a time from the top of a stack of like workpieces having a first rough side and a second smooth side, the workpieces being stacked with alternating sides up. A computer controlled picker is use... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5923941 | Document transport device This invention relates to a document transport device for use in an image forming apparatus. The document transport device has a first belt roller disposed above a document positioning member. A second belt roller is disposed away from the first belt roll... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5854643 | Method and apparatus for adjusting a gap between a printing head and a printing medium Two roller members support an endless conveying member tensioned around them, where the endless conveying member conveys a printing medium. A first displacing unit displaces a first portion of the endless conveying member in the direction different from t... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5685657 | Printer belt drive for moving a card A printing apparatus includes a transport for cards to be repeatedly scan printed with component colors. In the transport, a pair of belt rollers are fixed axially parallel in a frame, the belt rollers defining circumferential annular aligned grooves. Bel... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5497985 | Method and apparatus for temporarily storing and transporting successive textile sheets A method is provided for temporarily storing a series of successive textile sheets having a length L in an overlapping relationship in a collecting apparatus, including the successive steps of conveying the textile sheets one after another to an inlet of ... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5477901 | Apparatus for the manufacture of high pressure laminates For the manufacture of high pressure laminates, the pressed laminate (4) consisting of a stack of artificial resin impregnated paper sheets is fed into a single daylight hot press. The pressed laminate is held and guided along both longitudinal edges (6) ... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5476253 | Paper slip transport and stack unit A paper slip transport and stack unit is provided for separating received slips of paper into individual slips for transporting and stacking up them in an orderly manner in a stack section while counting the slips of paper by a count mechanism. The transp... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5470051 | Automatic document feeder An automatic document feeder for conveying a document on a platen glass. Back-up rollers for pressing a conveyer belt against the platen glass are loosely supported by a body frame. The shafts of a driving roller and a driven roller for rotating the conve... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5455663 | Image forming apparatus including recording material carrying means An image forming apparatus includes a cylindrical image bearing member, an image forming device for forming an image on the image bearing member, a transfer unit for performing first image transfer of the image on the image bearing member to a recording m... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5451038 | Sheet stacking apparatus Sheet stacking apparatus comprises a sheet feed system formed by a belt (9) movable past a sheet stacking hopper (1) in a sheet accept direction to feed sheets to the hopper. At least one pusher member (23) is movable in the sheet accept direction through... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5409203 | Copying machine A time required for a copying operation is shortened in making duplex copies from simplex documents. In a copying machine provided with a recirculating document feeder for feeding documents one by one from a document container to an exposure region and re... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5379993 | Automatic document feeder An automatic document feeder provided with a conveying unit which has a conveyer belt and regulating plates for regulating a space between the conveying unit and a platen glass. The regulating plates are disposed in a hinge side and a side opposite to the... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5371580 | Document feeding apparatus A plurality of double-faced originals in a series of pages are stacked on a tray with a first page faced upward. An original transport mechanism is arranged to transport a first sheet of original fed by a feed roller to an exposure position through an int... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5363184 | Automatic document conveying device having first and second pivoting frames An automatic document conveying device is equipped with an opening/closing frame and a swing frame which are mounted on a main frame. When the opening/closing frame is turned to an open position, the document introduction passage is at least partly opened... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5292113 | Automatic document feeder An automatic document feeder for conveying a document on a platen glass. Back-up rollers for pressing a conveyer belt against the platen glass are loosely supported by a body frame. The shafts of a driving roller and a driven roller for rotating the conve... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5238382 | Sheet fed article forming system An article forming system for forming at least one sheet of material into an article, such as a decorative flower pot cover for example. The article forming system includes a male die and a female die. A sheet of material is automatically moved to a loade... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5232210 | Document feeding method for a recycling automatic document feeder An automatic document feeding method for a recycling automatic document feeder (RADF) for use with a copier or similar image recording apparatus. The last document to be returned and the document immediately preceding it are discharged in succession. The ... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5207331 | Automatic system and method for sorting and stacking reusable cartons A system and method for automatically processing a supply of cartons, in flattened form and of different types, in accordance with a selectable number of plural, different and separately identifiable carton types. Unsorted cartons are removed in successiv... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5200790 | Automatic document conveying device An automatic document conveying device is applied to an image processor that has a transparent plate. The automatic document conveying device can convey a continuous document that has folding lines extending in the direction of width at stated intervals i... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5197723 | Automatic document feeding apparatus An automatic document feeding apparatus in which a plurality of documents are sequentially fed to an image exposure section. Before the completion of the exposure of a foregoing document, the feeding of a following document is started to place the documen... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5167406 | Apparatus for automatically inverting workpieces of limp sheet material Apparatus for automatically inverting workpieces of limp sheet material, such as fabric sheet material, including an endless primary conveyor having a forward-traveling reach for conveying workpieces in a forward direction, each workpiece having a leading... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5127642 | Automatic document conveying device for 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. The device includes an opening-closing frame member mounted on the hou... | 07/07/1992 |
| 5067701 | Multiple bill escrow mechanism A multiple bill escrow apparatus for forming a stack of successively received bills at an escrow location and for selectively moving the stack to a stacker or to a return in which a ram moves successively received bills to between pairs of first and secon... | 11/26/1991 |
| 5060923 | 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. The device includes an opening-closing frame member mounted on the hou... | 10/29/1991 |
