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...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6557468 | Delivery for a sheet processing machine, particularly for a sheet-fed printing machine The delivery for a sheet-processing machine, such as a sheet-fed rotary printing press, has several braking devices which are movable transverse to a sheet transport direction. The delivery also has a sheet guiding elements that respectively cover the int... | 05/06/2003 |
| 5927197 | Tensioner and system for continuous printer sheet advancement A tensioner and tensioning system for maintaining tension in a printer liner while providing manual advancement of the printer liner without accessing the inner compartment of the printer. A tension comprises first and second end brought in proximity to f... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5809878 | Rigid sheet printer/feed board assembly A stencil screen printing apparatus for printing rigid sheets comprising an intermittently rotatable cylinder, a reciprocable stencil screen frame, a power drive for the cylinder and stencil screen frame to move them in synchronism with each other, a vert... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5440983 | Swinging pregripper of a sheet-fed printing press Gripper control for a cyclically swingably driven pregripper for transporting single sheets in a sheet-fed printing press, the pregripper having at least one sheet gripper mounted on a free end of a swivel lever motorizingly pivotable about a frame-fixed ... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5322012 | Method and system for the lateral alignment of sheets A method and system are provided for aligning the lateral edge of sheets fed to a printing press. The lateral position of a sheet is detected. A slidable suction device beneath the sheet is operated to pull the sheet toward a lateral abutment at a constan... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5186106 | Arrangement on transfer drum for in-registry sheet transfer An arrangement on transfer drums for in-registry sheet transfer in sheet rotary printing machines, has gripper units mounted on cylinders, toothed segments which during a sheet transfer are in engagement, each of the gripper units having a gripper shaft, ... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5103725 | 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 ... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5090318 | 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 ... | 02/25/1992 |
| 4838162 | System for printing both sides of envelopes A system of printing information on opposite sides of paper board envelopes using heat sensitive films or foils fed between transfer die members and envelopes passing therebetween. The system includes a supply magazine or the like, a conveying system for ... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4771690 | Screen printing apparatus for limited flexibility stock An improved cylinder-type screen printing apparatus utilizes recessible pushers and stops to translate sheet stock along the supply bed to the cylinder without imparting any substantial bending moment to the sheet stock. The absence of bending forces perm... | 09/20/1988 |
| 4760786 | Apparatus for the automatic feeding of silk screen printing machines with run-out platen An improved device for the automatic feeding of silk screen printing machines with extension platens. The apparatus comprises: a storage magazine for the sheets to be printed, piled flat in a pile; structure associated with the printing platen and comprising a posi... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4470349 | Article controlled sheet feeding and printing machine A printing machine having a roller and a printing head which are brought together for printing in a printing mode and separated in an nonimprinting mode, the disposition of the roller and the head being controlled by means sensing the presence or absence ... | 09/11/1984 |
| 4442769 | Staging apparatus used in a sheet feeding environment A sheet feeding apparatus having a track for guiding a sheet therein, with the track having an upstream end and a downstream end, and with a staging area located therebetween. Transport rollers are used for moving a sheet from the upstream end towards the... | 04/17/1984 |
| 4421026 | Process color offset printing duplicator A process color offset duplicator uses a plurality of duplicator heads arranged serially to print full process color. The duplicator heads are adapted to apply a thin layer of ink onto plates held on their respective plate cylinders, in order that plate c... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4370928 | Sheet fed rotary press having an auxiliary gripper system arranged below a feeding cylinder The sheet fed rotary press includes a feed cylinder cooperating with a feed table extending in a plane situated below and in spaced relationship from the periphery of the feed cylinder. An auxiliary gripper system located under the feed cylinder provides ... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4307661 | Printer with sheet feeder having registering station and suction conveyor To print on each of a number of sheets, the sheets are advanced, preferably in underlapped form, up to registering stops. When a sheet has been registered at the stops, suction is applied to an underlying conveyor, the stops are withdrawn and the sheet is... | 12/29/1981 |
| 4259138 | Correction label applying device for a label printing machine The disclosure concerns a correction label applying device for a portable label printing machine, which is used to correct the characters printed on price tags. The correction label applying device is detachably secured to the body of the portable label p... | 03/31/1981 |
| 4231291 | Printing press The basic press structure includes a printing couple consisting of a lower printing cylinder, having a single work area, and a large printing cylinder, having an effective diameter which is a whole multiple, greater than one, of the effective diameter of ... | 11/04/1980 |
| 4211399 | Multiple size plate registration apparatus and method Multiple size plate registration system having a platen with a top planar surface. Channels are formed in the platen and open through the top planar surface. Parallel grooves are formed in the platen spaced transversely of the platen, extending longitudin... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4210079 | Advancing cylinder for use in a printing machine A sheet advancing cylinder in an offset printing machine, has a sheet gripping system arranged in its interior. The system includes a rocking member rigidly connected to a first gripper for moving the latter between two terminal positions in a slot formed... | 07/01/1980 |
| 4202266 | Staging mechanism for duplexing copy machines A system for providing duplex images on copy sheets wherein the images are formed on the copy sheets by delivering the sheets to an impression cylinder for transfer of the images to the sheets. First and second ink images are provided, and each sheet is f... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4085673 | Sheet feeding apparatus A sheet feeding apparatus in which successive sheets are separated and advanced from a stack thereof. As the sheet advances from the stack, it is aligned. After alignment, a conveyor moves the sheet to a delivery station. The aligning mechanism moves into... | 04/25/1978 |
| 4054092 | Document counter Apparatus for feeding, separating, counting and stacking documents at high speed. Documents are stacked in the infeed conveyor and are bottom fed preferably by closed loop belts and an eccentric wheel which continuously jogs the stack. Drive rollers suppo... | 10/18/1977 |
| 4051779 | Paper registration control device for printing presses A paper registration control device for printing presses includes a carrier having a plurality of holes extending vertically therethrough and arranged in tandem and a plurality of spherical pressure elements, each element adapted for seating in one of the... | 10/04/1977 |
| 4019435 | Sheet inverting An improved paper handling system includes a pair of work units which sequentially work on opposite sides of a sheet with the same edge of the sheet leading. An inverter between the two work units is effective to invert the sheet in such a manner that the... | 04/26/1977 |
| 4015523 | Method and apparatus for feeding and printing documents A document feeding apparatus sequentially feeding documents, including an automatic feeder for removing one document at a time from a stack and for delivering each document to a feed path. An endless conveyor moves each document along the path towards a d... | 04/05/1977 |
| 3955494 | Device for preventing an image of a printing master from being printed in an inclined position A device for duplicating apparatus adapted to prevent an image of a printing master from being printed in an inclined position on copies produced from the printing master mounted in the apparatus. The device comprises, in combination, a pair of delivery r... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3952651 | Sheet feeding apparatus for printing machines In a sheet feeder for rotary printing presses having a feed table, a side register lay, and front register lays, a first push type conveyor is positioned in advance of the front lays and a second push type conveyor is positioned between the front lays and... | 04/27/1976 |
| 3930725 | Multiple sheet feeding system for electrostatographic printing machines An electrostatographic printing machine employing sheet conveyance along a path through the machine from a plurality of supply sources to a sheet output delivery point. An individual conveyor mechanism is adapted to convey sheets to a common sheet registr... | 01/06/1976 |
