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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8142341 | Delivering foil leaves of selected lengths from an indeterminate length of foil A method and apparatus deliver consecutive foil leaves for use by a hair stylist during the course of a hair styling procedure. Each leaf is of a selected length severed from a supply of foil of indeterminate length, with a unitary tab folded along a fold line exten... | 03/27/2012 |
| 7951058 | Apparatus and method for the manual folding of a packing blank A tool for the manual folding of a package blank into a package, includes a bottom plate (2) with an abutment (3) erect from the front edge of the bottom plate, a tongue (4) protruding in front of the abutment from the front edge of the bottom p... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7775958 | Sanitary tissue paper, method of producing the same, carton box for sanitary tissue paper, sanitary tissue paper package, interfolder, and apparatus and method of conveying sanitary tissue paper package The present invention aims at preventing sanitary tissue paper from being torn when it is removed. The purpose is accomplished by sanitary tissue paper of single-ply or double-plies, characterized in that said paper has a lateral tensile strength on a dry condition ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7771335 | Apparatus and method for cutting and folding printed products An apparatus for cutting and folding printed products is provided. The apparatus includes a perforator, a first cutting device creating first slits in the web, a second cutting device creating second slits in the web longitudinally offset from the first slits so as ... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7553270 | Page indicator tab and method for making such a page indicator tab A page indicator tab (1) may be provided by cutting out a tongue-like section in parallel with free side edge (2) of a paper page. The section (1) is provided at a predetermined distance from the side edge (2), thus providing a remaining ... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7549955 | Method and device for creasing paper In a printer system where a print head is used to print on a flat material moving on a surface along a moving direction, a first creasing surface and a second creasing surface disposed on different sides of the flat material are used to make a crease on the flat mat... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7407468 | Method of dynamically pre-fastening a disposable absorbent article having a slot-and-tab-fastening system A method and an apparatus for pre-fastening disposable absorbent articles having a slot-and-tab fastening system during manufacturing of the pre-fastened disposable articles, such as diapers, pull-on diapers, training pants, adults incontinence pads and the like. | 08/05/2008 |
| 7385724 | Photo manager A method of photo display comprises electronically selecting at least one photo from a memory and electronically arranging at least one electronic photo sheet template, including arranging the at least one photo on the template, into a manipulable configuration for ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7328893 | Finisher and image forming apparatus equipped therewith A finisher for finishing a booklet having a bundle of center-folded sheets, includes: a detector for detecting an end on a side of a folded portion of the booklet: a moving device for conveying the booklet by movement thereof; a controller for controlling the moveme... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7311651 | Transport device A transport or conveying device is used in a folding apparatus for transporting or conveying signatures. A transport or conveying cylinder, which carries the signatures, is placed in cooperative engagement with another cylinder. A position of a terminal end of a sig... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7261288 | Postprocessing apparatus with two or more finishing devices A postprocessing apparatus stops and positions an image recording sheet delivered from an image forming apparatus at a predetermined position, punches the sheet with a punching unit, and thereafter folds the sheet with a folding unit. ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7174938 | Apparatus for folding and applying onserts onto consumer goods A machine for folding and applying onserts onto consumer goods such as cigarette packs comprises a continuous roll of preprinted onserts and a transverse cutter assembly for cutting onsert segments from the continuous roll. Each onsert segment includes a pair of sid... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7172547 | Variable-circumference folder A variable-circumference folder includes a gathering cylinder fitted with pin systems for reliably holding products of different thickness fed to the gathering cylinder by an accelerating device without any adjustment effort. ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7169247 | Methods and apparatus for laminating documents A substrate of label stock or the like has pressure sensitive adhesive on one side, covered by release material. The release material is folded back or removed along one edge of the substrate, exposing the pressure sensitive adhesive along that edge. A transparent l... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7160237 | Plastic sheet with bending ruled line, and ruled line blade for plastic sheet A plastic sheet with a bending rule line, having satisfactory bending properties and pliability, feeling soft, having a fine appearance, and allowing a bending operation to be mechanically performed; and a ruled line blade for such plastic sheet. A bending ruled lin... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7153253 | Folding drums of a folding device A folding drum of a folding device is comprised of at least one folding element and a transmission unit. The transmission unit has at least one toothed wheel which is coaxially arranged with respect to the rotational axis of the folding drum. The toothed wheel can b... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7147217 | Paper binding system of image forming apparatus and method for controlling the same A paper binding system of an image forming apparatus, such as a printer and a copier, and a method for controlling the same are disclosed, in which finishing processes such as stapling and folding are performed by exactly gripping papers ejected from the image formi... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7137943 | Sheet preparation module architecture and control methods Sheets can be manipulated for punching, perforating and/or folding. The systems and methods according to this invention allow sheets to be punched and/or perforated in various configurations. The systems and methods according to this invention allow sheets to be fol... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7104943 | Method and unit for flexing a flat blank for producing a rigid package A method and unit for flexing a flat blank having preformed fold lines; the flat blank is fed by a seat on a conveyor along a path through a flexing station, where a rigid folding body is rolled over the seat to fold the blank against two fixed folding spindles of t... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7097606 | Device for covering packaging boxes A device for applying a sheet of covering material (4, 40) to boxes (1) having at least one wall (2, 200) with an outside surface (5, 50), an inside surface (6, 60) and a free edge (3, 30) intermediate between the surfaces (... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7087007 | Sheet post-processing device and image forming apparatus A sheet post-processing device is provided with a pushing device for pushing a predetermined position of a sheet stack in a direction substantially perpendicular to a direction that the sheet stack is conveyed, and a pair of rotating bodies for performing a folding ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7041188 | Method for producing miter fold labels A device and method for producing individual folded labels having miter folded tabs includes a first cutting station for partially cutting the ribbon of labels to form a tab at each edge of the ribbon of labels and an interior base cut. The ribbon of label remains i... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7004507 | Combined poster book system and method A flat sheet of paper, or other thin flexible material, has information printed on one side in the form of a plurality of discrete panels or areas of text or images, while the entire other side is taken up by a large-scale, poster-like pattern. The panels or areas o... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6981939 | Forming machine for producing articles of sheet material from flat blanks In a machine for forming articles of sheet material, an orderly succession of flat blanks is fed along a forming path on a roller conveyor having powered rollers equally spaced with a given spacing; on the roller conveyor, the blanks are maintained contacting the ro... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6935997 | Patterning technology for folded sheet structures The present invention supplies practical procedures, functions or techniques for folding tessellations. Several tessellation crease pattern techniques, and the three-dimensional folded configuration are given. Additionally several new forming processes, including ma... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6918232 | Packaging a strip of material in side by side stacks spliced end to end A package of a strip of material is formed by slitting or perforating a web to separate the web into side by side strips and fan folding the web to form a plurality of side by side stacks of the strips. The strip of each stack is spliced to the strip of the next sta... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6916280 | Apparatus for folding cardboard articles To simplify and speed up folding of plate-like elements (1) along a fold line (2), more particularly in a continuous operation, a method and a an apparatus for folding plate-like elements (1) are proposed which eliminate the use of counter-impre... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915621 | Method and apparatus for wrapping pads The invention is directed to method and apparatus for wrapping pads. A web of flexible wrapping material is adapted to be pulled in tension over a forming device. The forming device has first and second folding members having angled folding edges adapted for contact... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6910686 | Paper processing apparatus and cutter unit A paper processing apparatus that includes: a paper carry-in port, which is disposed at one side surface of the paper processing apparatus; a center-bound paper discharge port, which is disposed at another side surface opposite from the paper carry-in port; a center... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6902197 | Methods of forming informational items A method of producing a folded item having printed information thereon to provide information to the user of a product is disclosed. The method comprises (a) folding the sheet by making a first fold in the sheet in a direction parallel to a first direction; (b) fold... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6899664 | Device for returning folded paper and folding apparatus including same A folded paper return device is provided for use in combination with a sheet material folding machine, such as a paper folding machine. A paper folding machine including the inventive folded paper return device is also provided. The sheet material folding machine is... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6893388 | Method of dynamically pre-fastening a disposable absorbent article having a slot-and-tab fastening system A method and an apparatus for pre-fastening disposable absorbent articles having a slot-and-tab fastening system during manufacturing of the pre-fastened disposable articles, such as diapers, pull-on diapers, training pants, adults incontinence pads and the like. | 05/17/2005 |
| 6886823 | Printing machine with several sections A printing machine includes several sections, each of which has at least one printing unit with at least one web running through the at least one printing unit per section. Two such sections are arranged offset to each other, transverse to the longitudinal direction... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6874968 | Binder view pocket This invention relates to pockets for holding a single or a small batch of sheets of paper, and particularly to the construction of an enclosure which provides “direct write” storage and access for a top leaf enclosed therein, where one entry lip of the pocket i... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6865864 | Inline formed crossfold package and method An inline formed package having an envelope and insert material, is formed from a single repeat of a printed web both of which are crossfolded simultaneously, approximately along the half repeat line, and the area of the insert material is greater than half the area... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6761677 | Album leaf and method and apparatus for making an album leaf An apparatus and method for automatically folding a sheet of media, for example, a photographic paper about a fold line, such that a album page is formed. The photosensitive media has images only on one side. A heat activated adhesive sheet is provided between the s... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6752429 | Methods of forming informational items A method of producing a folded item having printed information thereon to provide information to the user of a product is disclosed. The method comprises (a) folding the sheet by making a first fold in the sheet in a direction parallel to a first direction; (b) fold... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6740024 | Jaw cylinder device at the folding station of a web-fed printing press The folding station of a rotary printing press has a folding cylinder on which the printed paper web is cut into sections. Mounted opposite the folding cylinder, a jaw cylinder has cut in its surface several jaw cavities each extending parallel to the jaw cylinder a... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6715749 | Booklet maker and method of manufacturing a booklet maker A sheet wise booklet maker includes adjustable elements to allow adjustment of the parallelism of the booklet maker elements to produce quality booklets. The booklet maker includes a sheet trimmer, a folding apparatus, and a paper drive. Orientations of at least two... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6669618 | Method of dynamically pre-fastening a disposable absorbent article having a slot-and-tab fastening system A method for pre-fastening disposable absorbent articles having a slot-and-tab fastening system during manufacturing of the pre-fastened disposable articles, such as diapers, pull-on diapers, training pants, adults incontinence pads and the like.... | 12/30/2003 |
