Bizarre Patents
Crispy Chip Sandwich and Process of Producing a Sandwich Product
A food product comprising a multilayer cookie or snack having outer layers formed from a crispy type edible food product such as a potato chip or corn chip, etc. with an intermediate marshmallow layer being in contact with the inner surface of each crispy chip and one or more filler substances.
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 |
| 7258500 | Media processing apparatus and scanner unit The media processing apparatus has a first transportation path for guiding the check, a second transportation path and a third transportation path that diverge from the first transportation path, a front scanner that is rendered along the first transportation path f... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257558 | System and method for conducting a financial transaction between a sender and recipient of a mail piece In a postage payment system, a secure integrated circuit (IC) card is used to manage postage funds, and created encrypted postage indicia. Among other things, the system is capable of performing charge-back accounting of postage expenses and generating mail contents... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7226494 | Secure postage payment system and method In a postage payment system, a secure integrated circuit (IC) card is used to manage postage funds, and create encrypted postage indicia. Among other things, the system is capable of performing charge-back accounting of postage expenses and generating mail contents.... | 06/05/2007 |
| 6983696 | Apparatus for cooling material to be printed and printing units at sheet fed printing machines with cooled compressed air The present invention relates to an apparatus for cooling material to be printed and printing machine elements at sheet-fed rotary printing machines by means of cooled compressed air. It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus which requires li... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6938545 | Sheet-fed printing press A sheet-fed printing press includes a printing section for printing on sheets of paper, a sheet discharge section for discharging sheets of paper printed at the printing section from the printing section, a see-through part provided on the upper side of the sheet di... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6823786 | Tandem printing system with fine paper-position correction A tandem printer with a mechanism for fine substrate-position correction, comprising: a first printing station; a second printing station; a rotatable element, rotating at a given rotation rate, that receives the substrate after printing thereon by the first printin... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6792863 | Printing apparatus for automatically controlling ink supply device A printing apparatus has a manual control mode. The manual control mode has a proportion indication, a proportion adjustment key, a selected range adjustment key, and region selection keys. In the manual control mode, an operator selectively touches the region selec... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6779447 | Device for registering the position of a rotor part in a transport system A device for registering the position of a rotor part in a transport system also having a static part in addition to the rotor part includes a dimensional standard forming part of the rotor part, and a plurality of transmitters provided on the static part; and a pri... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6748858 | Printing system A printing apparatus and a printing method capable of preventing stacks of printed sheets from falling apart which can occur when continuously printing stacks of sheets of different sheet sizes. A printing press is controlled to suspend printing for removal of print... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6651558 | System for inserting pamphlets into a printing press An inserter (10) for synchronously feeding a preprinted portion (X1) of a pamphlet into a printing press (P) to be adhered to a complemental portion of the pamphlet in substantial registration to form the completed pamphlet is disclosed. The in... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6640706 | Guiding device for an areal printing material A guiding device for an areal printing material, the guiding device having an areal structure with a guide surface facing towards the printing material, and wherein the areal structure includes a supporting layer, and a surface layer is provided for formi... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6591749 | Printing machine with improved vacuum transfer A multistage printing machine is disclosed with a vacuum conveyor between stages, and in which supplemental air is provided adjacent at least one printing cylinder.... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6318256 | Printing apparatus A printing apparatus includes a first plate cylinder and a second plate cylinder. Each plate cylinder supports a plate mounted peripherally thereof having two image areas. Four ink feeders contact and feed inks to the image areas on the plate when mounted... | 11/20/2001 |
| 5782183 | Pressurized machine for processing blanks A machine is disclosed for printing and/or otherwise processing blanks of sheet material in which the interior of the machine is pressurized to a super-atmospheric pressure such that the blanks are forced firmly against the transfer conveyor between secti... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5706727 | Postage meter with improved paper path A postage meter has the print rotor and platen within a single secure housing, with a letter detection lever along the paper path downstream from the rotor. The letter detection lever is in a spring-loaded coupling relationship with the trigger that trigg... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5694849 | Overshooting-sheet safety device Overshooting-sheet safety device for sheet deliveries of printing presses includes a triggering member responsive to overshooting sheets for triggering a stoppage of the printing press, the triggering member extending across the width of an oncoming sheet... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5584246 | Process and apparatus for printing on flat individual articles In a process and apparatus for printing on flat individual articles such as cards by means of offset printing, the article, before being moved into a starting position for the printing operation, is firstly aligned relative to the printing cylinder. While... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5533448 | Device for controlling the sheet inlet when starting up a sheet-processing printing machine A method and a device for controlling the sheet inlet when starting up a sheet-processing printing machine having a vibrator-type inking unit, in which the sheets are positioned at front lays, their correct position is established and, in the case of the ... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5471928 | Control device and method for "on the fly" printing machines A control device for on the fly printing machines, especially machines for franking envelopes, comprises a printing device comprising a rotary print head actuated by a first motor and carrying on a portion of its surface a printing active part. A conveyor... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5419256 | Device for laterally aligning sheets being fed into a printing press and method for aligning the sheets A device for laterally aligning sheets in a printing machine can have a feeding table via which the sheets are stream-fed to front lays, and a corresponding side-pull device for laterally moving the sheets after having been aligned at the front lays. The ... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5385091 | Sheet-fed print installation and a corresponding print line The sheet feed print installation of the flexographic type for printing on a semi-rigid material of the corrugated card type comprises: a plate-carrier cylinder having a plate of thickness Ec fixed to the periphery thereof; a backing system, optiona... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5377587 | Sheet-fed rotary printing press with inspection-sheet delivery A delivery system in a sheet-fed rotary printing press includes at least one main sheet pile, and at least one auxiliary pile for an inspection-sheet delivery; a conveying device for transporting sheets; release members for releasing the sheets from the c... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5222818 | Tape printer apparatus and control method A printer that prints characters or graphics on tape by means of a thermal print head, having a cutting means that cuts the tape at predetermined positions, and control means which act to eliminate printing defects such as gaps, or spaces, between printed... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5142980 | Pneumatic controller for a printing machine The pneumatic controller for detecting the presence or absence of sheets fed through a press machine includes a suction system having a suction duct in a sheet feed cylinder of the press machine and a vacuum pump connected to the suction duct, the suction... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5114138 | Method and apparatus for multiple sheet detection According to a method and apparatus for multiple sheet detection for a sheet in a printing press capable of performing multiple sheet detection at a first feed operation timing which can stop feeding of the sheet to the printing press, a second feed opera... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5000088 | Document imprinting device A document imprinting device for imprinting on documents such as checks comprises a frame, a document feeding mechanism mounted on the frame for sequentially feeding documents, a conveying mechanism for conveying a document from the document feeding mecha... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4993319 | Imprinting device equipped with an adjustable counterpressure cylinder In an imprinting device including a pressure cylinder and a movable counterpressure cylinder, the counterpressure cylinder is disposed opposite the pressure cylinder and is elastically attached to a rocker which is pivotal about a point. The device includ... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4991983 | MICR encoder An electronic, programmable check encoder (10) having a check guide (14) capable of receiving a check to be encoded. A plurality of sensors (40,42,44,46) locate the position of the check in the check guide (14). Following determination of the position of ... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4936568 | Control circuit for single revolution means In a machine including driving apparatus and structure for feeding a sheet through and from the machine, and wherein the machine includes structure for sensing a sheet, an improvement comprising: a rotary timing cam; an actuating member movable into and o... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4905980 | Control circuit for single revolution means In a machine including driving apparatus and structure for sensing a sheet fed to the machine; an improvement comprising: a rotary timing cam; an actuating member movable into and out of locking engagement with the cam; a source of supply of d.c. power; a... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4884503 | Mailing machine including improved sheet feeding means In a mailing machine including a postage meter and a housing for supporting the postage meter, wherein the mailing machine includes means for individually feeding sheets in a path of travel through the machine, wherein the postage meter includes rotary me... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4876959 | Drive system for rotary printing apparatus including improved means for locking and unlocking the apparatus In a machine including rotary structure for printing indicia on a sheet fed to the machine, wherein the machine includes apparatus for driving the rotary printing structure, wherein the driving apparatus includes a drive gear having a home position, where... | 10/31/1989 |
| 4861016 | Delivery safety apparatus for sheet-fed printing press In a delivery safety apparatus for a sheet-fed printing press, regardless of the operation mode of the delivery table lifting unit, a delivery table is automatically moved downward on the basis of a detection result from a pile height detecting means for ... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4858907 | System for feeding envelopes for simultaneous printing of addresses and bar codes An envelope feeding assembly providing for the individual, lengthwise feeding of envelopes and enabling printing thereon while said envelopes are in motion, including an envelope storage bin for holding a stack of envelopes prior to printing and having a ... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4841859 | Side lay control apparatus for sheet-fed printing press A side lay position control apparatus for a sheet-fed printing press, includes a switch for setting a distance from a reference point of the sheet-fed printing press to a side lay and a fine adjustment length with reference to the distance, a CPU for calc... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4831273 | Mailing machine sensing device A mailing machine system, including a mailing machine base and a feeder module secured to the base for conveying envelopes toward a postage meter secured to the base. The feeder module includes a horizontal feed deck and a vertical registration wall adjac... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4796526 | Value printing die protection device in an electronic postage meter machine A die protection device that prevents the taking of fraudulent non-metered impressions from the value printing die surface of a printing member in a postage meter machine. A slug is reciprocally received within the print head of the postage meter machine ... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4791866 | Speed control method for printing press and printing press practicing the method A speed control method for printing press wherein a predetermined reference value of rotation speed of a plate cylinder is set in a controller, and when a rotation speed which differs from the reference value to exceed it is set in the controller, the pla... | 12/20/1988 |
| 4774446 | Microprocessor controlled d.c. motor for controlling printing means An improvement in combination with apparatus including rotary means, wherein the rotary means includes a periphery having indicia printing means and is adapted for feeding a sheet in a path of travel. The improvement comprises: a first device for sensing ... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4743129 | Passbook printer A passbook printer uses a conveyor belt (16) to urge a passbook (86) towards a raised barrier (40) for the passbook (86) to strike the barrier (40) and then have one edge thereof aligned with the barrier (40) by sliding engagement with the conveyor belt (... | 05/10/1988 |
