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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7806399 | Media support pick device Various apparatus and methods relating to positioning differently sized sheets on a shuttle for printing are disclosed. ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7481420 | Apparatus of feeding mailpieces An apparatus of feeding mailpieces such as envelopes is disclosed. The apparatus includes a supply conveyer for supporting thereon an array of mailpieces which are arranged in a tilted-backward position and moving such mailpieces forward, and a suction feeder which ... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7441764 | Feeder mechanism for a packaging machine An apparatus for sequentially manipulating from a supply point of a hopper carton blanks each having a contacting panel and for transferring the blanks to an in-feed end of a packaging machine. The apparatus comprises carton pick up means for sequentially engaging t... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7306222 | Sheet material feeder A sheet material feeder includes a sheet material holder for holding a pile of sheet material, a rotating drum for transporting the sheet material from the pile, and an acceleration device receiving the sheet material from the rotating drum at a first speed and rele... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7293767 | Sheet sucking/feeding device In a sheet sucking/feeding device, actuators are independently and individually connected respectively to plural suction cups. At a point in time when a printing plate is sucked and raised up by a predetermined amount, every other one of the actuators is simultaneou... | 11/13/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7243916 | Apparatus for feeding sheets of media from a stack An apparatus for feeding porous sheets of media from a stack of such sheets includes a support structure for supporting the stack. A gas conduit is mounted on the support structure and has an outlet that is oriented so that, when the stack is positioned on the suppo... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7222845 | Printer with a picker assembly A printer includes a support structure. A printing assembly is mounted on the support structure. The printing assembly includes a feed mechanism mounted on the support structure for feeding sheets of media along a feed path. At least one printhead is mounted on the ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7144009 | Apparatus for transmitting a workpiece The apparatus for transmitting a workpiece along a press line includes a support frame; a support frame driving unit; a plurality of air pipes; an air flow forming unit; a plurality of rollers; and a roller driving unit. The plurality of suction cups are provided at... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7080832 | Sheet material feeder A sheet material feeder includes a sheet material holder for holding a pile of sheet material; a sucker bar device having at least one sucker for contacting the sheet material, the sucker bar device having a pivot axis, and an actuator for pivoting the sucker bar de... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7007942 | Panel handling apparatus An apparatus and method for lifting, separating and transporting a top panel from a stack of panels through the application sequential suction forces. The apparatus and method uses a vacuum conveying system wherein a sequence of suction forces is exerted from one or... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6644647 | Apparatus and method for transferring labels from a label magazine for in-mold labeling prior to blow molding Label transfer apparatus (160) and a method for transferring labels (54) from a label stack (164) for in-mold labeling prior to blow molding utilize a transfer head (168) that is movable on a rotary table (186) with additional transfer heads (168), adjace... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6554268 | Apparatus for transporting flexible, sheet-like products An apparatus for transporting flexible, sheet-like products, in particular printed products 9, away and/or for further processing, and having a plurality of grippers 3 which can be moved along a gripper conveying route and follow one after the other in th... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6502814 | Apparatus for handling blanks in packaging machines For removing blanks (10) from a blanks magazine (14, 15) a transfer roller (18, 19) is employed which grips the blank (10) with a suction head (20) and takes it along its circumference. The transfer roller (18, 19) must be moved back and forth along a lin... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6494446 | Paper feeder A paper feeder includes a conveyor for conveying a single paper fed from the upstream side to the downstream side along a transport path while sucking the paper. A suction mechanism faces the conveyor for holding another paper fed together with the above ... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6488274 | Apparatus for transporting flexible, sheet-like products The apparatus serves for transporting flexible, sheet-like products, in particular printed products, from a stack, which is positioned at a receiving location, to a discharge location. The apparatus has a separating element as well as a supporting element... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6431539 | Apparatus and method for unstacking sheets stacked in a feeder The invention concerns a method for unstacking sheets stacked in a feeder, comprising a step which consists in bringing a vacuum cup close to the surface of the sheet at the top of the stack; a step which consists in contacting the vacuum cup with the sur... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6416048 | Method and apparatus for picking up papers An apparatus for picking up a plurality of papers stacked in an upright position one by one is disclosed. A pick-up mechanism is angularly movable about a single point between a position for sucking the outermost paper and a position for conveying it. Whi... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6279894 | Device for separating stacked flat bag pieces provided with socalled side folds Device for separating stacked flat bag pieces, comprising a supporting structure, which is pivot-mounted in a frame and is provided with a drive, and on which suction rollers can be rotated, whose drive is in a direction of rotation opposite to the suppor... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6176481 | Apparatus having conveying means of medium An apparatus has a paper cassette capable of accommodating a recording medium such as large-size recording sheets or OHP film, and an accommodating unit capable of accommodating recording sheets such as plain paper. The types of recording sheets that are ... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6168148 | Sheet separating device The apparatus for separating a flat product from a pile of flat products, has a sucker mechanism with an upper and a lower part. The upper part is connected to a first link joint of a central lever and the lower part is connected to a second link joint of... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6062807 | Battery plate feeder having oscillating pick-up head A plate feed apparatus has a cylindrical pick-up head having a predetermined number of pick-up units. The pick-up head rotates with a first shaft at a first rotational speed. A feed mechanism places the uppermost plate in a stack of plates a nominal dista... | 05/16/2000 |
| 5997458 | Rotary object feeder The present invention is directed to a rotary object feeder, which feeds objects from a by rotating the objects from a pick-up location to a drop-off location. The object is picked-up by at least one pick-up member having a suction cup. Suction at the suc... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5895037 | Drive transmission for a pull sucker or forwarding sucker, in particular, for a device for correcting misaligned sheets A drive transmission for a pull or forwarding sucker located in a suction head of a sheet feeder for translatorily driving a sucker-carrying support movable in a guide provided on a suction-head housing, the sucker-carrying support being connected articul... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5813965 | Machine for transferring and erecting cardboard package blanks The machine includes a vacuum head which is mounted to rotate on the outer end of an elongated arm adapted to be pivoted upwardly and downwardly about a fixed pivot by a servo drive. As the arm pivots, the vacuum head picks either a carton blank or a tray... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5803445 | Arrangement for delivering printed products to a removal conveyor An arrangement has a rotor with rotor arms that are arranged in a drum-like manner around an axis of rotation and project on one side from a carrying element that is driven in rotation. The arrangement also has a sucker arrangement that includes a carryin... | 09/08/1998 |
| 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 |
| 5645680 | Produce labeller A produce labeller has first and, optionally, second selectively actuable label supply cartridge for selectively supplying labels from the fast or second selectively actuable label supply cartridge to corresponding fast and second label transfer positions... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5642878 | Method and apparatus for separating sheets fed from the bottom of a stack A stack of sheets or blanks for feeding one by one from the bottom of the stack by a feeding mechanism is supported for high speed feeding to subsequent stations. A feed cylinder rotatably supported beneath the leading edge of the stack includes a suction... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5542656 | Apparatus for individually separating stacked printed products An apparatus for separating stacked printed products includes suction heads anchored on a rotor by a respective swivel arm. The swivel arms are driven with regard to their swivel position by a swiveling drive superposed on the rotary drive of the rotor su... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5511772 | Oscillating rotary hopper This relates to apparatus for transferring flat members such as cartons from a supplly to an applying conveyor chain and the like wherein the supply is disposed above the conveyor and at an angle thereto. The apparatus is in the form of a rotary hopper th... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5501447 | Device for adjusting the positions of suction-type grippers on a sheet-transfer drum A device for adjusting the position of suction-type grippers on a sheet-transfer drum, wherein the suction-type grippers are disposed basically along at least one generating line, are displaceable perpendicularly to a sheet-transport direction and are fix... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5482267 | Device for adjusting the position of suction-type grippers on a sheet-transfer drum A device for adjusting the position of suction-type grippers on a sheet-transfer drum, wherein the suction-type grippers, disposed basically along at least one generating line, are displaceable perpendicularly to a sheet-transport direction and are fixabl... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5472184 | Apparatus for the storage and extraction of blanks 1. Apparatus for the storage and extraction of blanks (10) consisting of thin cardboard from a blank magazine (12). 2.1. An extraction unit (16) having a sun wheel (17) and planet wheels (18, 19) rotating about the latter serves for the continuous extraction o... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5435804 | Cup making machine A machine for making cups of thermoplastic coated paper, the machine including a frame or housing having a turret rotatably mounted on the frame, a number of work stations mounted on the frame in an equally spaced relation around the turret, a number of m... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5431384 | Method and apparatus for feeding print media An apparatus and method for feeding single sheets of laminated thermographic print media are disclosed. The apparatus includes a traveling vacuum roller reciprocatable between pickup and discharge positions under suitable control so as to engage an end of... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5352086 | Apparatus for lifting sheets from a stack An apparatus for lifting a sheet from a stack of sheets including a frame, a suction plate for engaging a sheet from the stack, a lifter connected to the suction plate so as to move the suction plate in a vertical direction, a setting member pivotally con... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5297923 | Device for parting and successively feeding stacked elements of sheet material to a user machine A device wherein at least one feedbox housing a stack of sheet elements presents a first and second wall parallel to each other, and an actuating device for moving the two walls in relation to and parallel to each other, so as to define a channel varying ... | 03/29/1994 |
| 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 |
| 5232213 | Vacuum belt sheet feeder device In a sheet feeder device of the vacuum belt type, the vacuum belt moves in a pivotal manner between a generally horizontal sheet acquiring position, in which the lower face of the belt confronts the top surface of the top sheet, lying generally flat atop ... | 08/03/1993 |
