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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7272571 | Method and apparatus for effective distribution and delivery of goods ordered on the World-Wide-Web An apparatus and method for delivering goods ordered by a plurality of customers, in which a plurality of customers place orders for goods from a vendor, the vendor fulfills its orders by combining into a single shipping order the goods ordered by a plurality of cus... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7267053 | Delivery device for a sheet-processing machine The invention relates to a delivery device for a sheet-processing machine. The object of the invention is providing a delivery device on a sheet-fed rotary printing machine, that can be universally used and permits quality control of the printed and/or laminated she... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7244072 | Sheet recording apparatus with dual nip transport An apparatus for recording an image onto a sheet medium (12) has an entrance nip (14) for transporting the sheet medium (12) into an image recording section (20). A write head (56) records onto a portion of the sheet medium (12 | 07/17/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7213514 | Extension arm for a sheet-processing printing machine A sheet delivery mechanism for a sheet-fed printing machine which is adapted to reduce changes in the position of sheet material in a stack during a stack changeover operation and which facilitates the formation of a stack with properly aligned edges. The sheet-deli... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7036413 | Device for the transverse cutting of at least one web in a folding apparatus A printed, endless web is transversely cut by the cooperation of a cutting blade cylinder and a sheet gripping cylinder that also carries cutting blocks. If the web that is to be cut, is noted as having a defect, for example in the printing applied to it, the cuttin... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6971280 | Cam mechanism on a folding cylinder A cam mechanism for a folding cylinder or gripping cylinder of a printing machine have a cam disk assembly with two cam disks located adjacent to one another. The cam mechanism has good kinematic properties and is subject to low wear, the outer casing of the cam rol... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6932755 | Folding machine with collect run mode The folding machine with a collect run mode of this invention comprises folding cylinder fixed cam means for carrying out a straight run at pins, folding cylinder rotating cam means provided with covering section so as to enable rotation of the covering sections for... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6907825 | Delivery for a machine for processing flat printing materials A delivery for a machine for processing flat printing materials includes sheet brakes for accepting sheets fed in a processing direction at an acceptance level and for releasing the sheets at a surrender level. The sheet brakes are adjustably disposed for varying th... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6684787 | Method and device for processing printed materials Sheets or strips of printed materials, with each sheet or strip having a printed image including plural individual copies, are inspected. Each copy is inspected by an inspection device. The sheets or strips of printed materials are separated into individu... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6382098 | Coating apparatus, printing apparatus, imaging apparatus, printing system and printing method A printing apparatus (1001) having a plurality of blanket cylinders (1051 to 1054) normally-contacting to impression cylinders (1031, 1032), plate cylinders (1041 to 1044) normally-contacting to the respective blanket cylinders, and a ink coating apparatu... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6257142 | Rotary printing press for production of multiple center spread signatures Several printing units are arranged in a row for printing on as many separate webs traveling in centerline alignment and in phase with one another. At least one preselected web, on issuing from one printing unit, is directed over an angled guide rod there... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6227109 | Multicolor printing apparatus with horizontally rotatable discharge station A printing apparatus (1001) having a plurality of blanket cylinders (1051 to 1054) normally-contacting to impression cylinders (1031, 1032), plate cylinders (1041 to 1044) normally-contacting to the respective blanket cylinders, and a ink coating apparatu... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6016747 | Printing press coupler accumulator A sheet accumulator for advancing successive sheets between first and second color printing presses comprising an accumulator sheet conveyor for advancing sheets from one press to the other press, a sheet lifter at the conveyor to lift a first sheet and t... | 01/25/2000 |
| 5957050 | Method and apparatus for effecting shingling of conveyed printed products An arrangement for decelerating and shingling printed products as they are conveyed from a variable rotary cutter by a high-speed belt conveyor to a slower speed belt conveyor includes at least one depressor wheel at the entry end of the slower speed conv... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5740740 | Method and device for braking sheets in a delivery of a sheet-fed rotary printing press Method for braking sheets in a delivery of a sheet-fed rotary printing press wherein the sheets are disposed in tandem and are successively fed to a sheet-pile position in translatory travel direction, the sheets being in an overlapping shingled arrangeme... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5544583 | Delivery interrupt mechanism for a printing machine A delivery interrupt mechanism for a printing machine includes a support frame having a stationary guide defining a guide path. A flexible finger is slidably supported by the guide for movement along a curved portion of the guide path while substantially ... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5540152 | Delivery conveyor with control window ventilation and extraction system An extractor and a ventilation control window are coupled to the housing of a sheet delivery conveyor to extract unwanted heat, moisture, volatile vapors and obnoxious odors from the conveyor housing to eliminate the need for a separate venting system abo... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5501148 | Automatic sheet printing and alignment system An automatic sheet printing and alignment system includes a holding table; a transport system for moving the table through a plurality of stations; a first station for positioning a sheet on the table; a second station for printing features on the sheet p... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5377588 | Delivery for a sheet-fed printing press Delivery for a sheet-fed printing press includes a device for conveying sheets supplied from the printing press in a given conveying direction to a location at which the sheets fall consecutively onto a pile of the sheets, a swivelingly mounted stop shaft... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5349904 | Non-stop pile-change device in a delivery of a printing press Non-stop pile-changing device in a delivery of a printing press includes an auxiliary pile support insertable between two sheets in a sheet-conveying direction for temporarily receiving thereon oncoming sheets in an auxiliary pile, a device for exchanging... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5284089 | Protective system of a pile lifting device for sheet piles in sheet-fed printing machines Protective system of a pile lifting device for sheet piles in a sheet-fed printing machine, wherein a pile support board is liftable and lowerable in guides of a frame by a motorized drive of a lifting unit having a fast-speed and a slower speed operating... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5263415 | Sheet guide in the delivery section of a sheet-fed printing press In a delivery section of a sheet-fed printing press convertible between single-sided sheet printing and first-form and perfector printing, a sheet guide is provided formed with a sheet guide surface alterable between conditions wherein the surface is form... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5235907 | Apparatus for stacking printed sheets for a screen process printing machine A printing machine system includes a printing machine which discharges a printed material after the printing operation is completed. The printing machine system also includes a drier which dries the printed material discharged from the printing machine. A... | 08/17/1993 |
| 5179900 | Controllable gripper assembly A controllable gripper assembly utilizes spaced plates attached to transport chains. A gripper carriage is carried between the plates and is slidable with respect to the transport chain. Movement of the gripper carriage in a direction opposite to that of ... | 01/19/1993 |
| 5143368 | Paper dodging device In a paper dodging device having a pair of upper and lower high-speed belts for feeding paper onto a low-speed paper, the delivery side of the upper high-speed belt is overlapped above the inlet side of the low-speed belt, and a snubber is disposed above ... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5115739 | Document imprinting device having a rotation detector mounted on the print drum A document imprinting device for imprinting on documents such as checks, and its method of use, comprising a frame, a document feeding mechanism mounted on the frame for sequentially feeding documents, a conveying mechanism for conveying a document from t... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5104115 | Stacker for stacking and issuing sets of cards The stacker for stacking sets of cards comprises a container for receiving a set of boarding passes and a stacking section for stacking these boarding passes in the container in the fixed orientation. In the stacker, the container has first and second wal... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5103733 | Printing machine with continuous sheet feed mechanism An improved printing machine for moving paper sheets from a paper stack along an endless belt to an impression cylinder with continual movement of the paper sheet without stopping and starting. The instantaneous angular position of the impression cylinder... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5088405 | Printer with sheet feeding apparatus Disclosed herein is a printer with a sheet feeding apparatus having a printer body incorporating a printing mechanism for printing onto continuous forms. A cutter is provided close to a continuous forms discharging port on the printer case. Following the ... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5056432 | Printer with sheet feeding apparatus Disclosed herein is a printer with a sheet feeding apparatus having a printer body incorporating a printing mechanism for printing onto continuous forms. A cutter is provided close to a continuous forms discharging port on the printer case. Following the ... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5020434 | Base stock for series checks and the like and a method or printing the same A method of forming stacks of printed material containing a set of printed patterns, each pattern in the set appearing at a selected printing area of each sheet in a selected sequence through the stacks, and the stack of material formed thereby. The metho... | 06/04/1991 |
| 4892036 | Combination collection and folding cylinder system To permit central control of shifting of folding blades and puncture needles on a combination collection or assembly and folding cylinder (9), the cams (23, 25l) have associated therewith rotatable cam cover disks (62, 61) which are driven from the main m... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4843959 | Producing piles of serially-indexed papers from a plurality of unindexed imprints Sheets or a web of bank note imprints are advanced in single file through an indexing station where a unique identifying index is applied to each imprint. The indexed imprints are stacked as a pile of strips, downstream of the indexing station, and the pi... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4843962 | Double-feed envelope guide system for printing press This relates to an attachment kit for an offset printing press of the type manufactured and sold by A. B. Dick Company, which attachment comprises a leveling system including a pair of pivoting boards constructed to be mounted in parallel relation on a ba... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4793251 | Process and apparatus for the processing of security-paper prints and identification of misprints The print carriers which bear security-paper prints arranged in longitudinal and transverse rows and on which misprints are marked are numbered in such a way that all security-paper prints arranged in succession in a longitudinal row, but excluding mispri... | 12/27/1988 |
| 4777876 | Picture adjusting device in sheet-feed press A picture adjusting device in a sheet-feed press having a rotating sheet-feed cylinder feeding paper to a rotating impression cylinder. The sheet-feed cylinder has a movable bearing on at least one end of its shaft so that the sheet-feed cylinder is tilta... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4766810 | Sheet feeder for printing bound sheets A sheet feeder for use with an offset printing device that is capable of feeding sheets that are bound together along a common edge is disclosed herein. The sheet feeder generally comprises a stack holder for holding a stack of bound sheets along their co... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4751880 | Label imprinting machine with cartridge inking system A label imprinting machine has a feed hopper, a stacking hopper, an imprinting station, and a printing head at the imprinting station. Unimprinted labels are transported from the feed hopper to the imprinting station and imprinted labels from then to the ... | 06/21/1988 |
| 4688481 | Document feeding and printing apparatus A document printer in which a print drum is driven by a direct current electric motor whose voltage is controlled by a first voltage regulator circuit for supplying a first voltage to the motor during a non-printing operating condition and a voltage boost... | 08/25/1987 |
