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Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7918372 | Apparatus for controlling the lateral offset of webs of material The present disclosure relates an apparatus for controlling the lateral offset of webs of material. The apparatus can include a support structure for supporting a roll and a mechanism for lifting the web of material off the roll. The support structure can include a ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7422132 | Vacuum belt conveyor with lateral guidance for a web forming machine A vacuum belt conveyor for a web forming machine intended for transporting a web threading tail (24) has lateral guidance. The vacuum belt conveyor has a frame construction (16) with two rolls (17, 18), an air-permeable belt loop (21) and... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7302877 | Automatic lathe-loader provided with linear sensors of the position of the bar-pusher and automatic lathe including said loader An automatic bar-loader for lathes including a channel for feeding of a bar to the lathe mandrel and a bar-pusher powered by an electric motor controlled by a control unit and having a head collet for grasping the tail of a bar in the channel to make it run therein.... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7255255 | Method and system for positioning guide arms in a strip fabrication assembly A method of dispensing a strip product using a strip fabrication assembly, by entering arm positions for guide arms of the assembly into a guide arm controller device, moving the corresponding guide arms of the strip fabrication assembly to the respective arm positi... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7213310 | Device for finishing denim woven fabric A device for finishing woven denim textiles is described which, proceeding from unfinished goods, is supposed to be brought to predetermined reference values for finished width, skew and woof thread density. The device is supposed to be designed for continuous opera... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7204401 | Web material feeding apparatus A web material feeding apparatus has a suction plate 24 provided near an outlet of a reservoir box 2. The suction plate 24 can be shifted in the direction across a feeding path for tip paper C, by operation of a motor 76. The feeding appa... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7197971 | Device for trimming sheet material A sheet material trimming apparatus and method are described which are suitable for use in a booklet making system. An exemplary apparatus includes at least one cutter for trimming a first and a second edge of a sheet material in a first and a second direction, and ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7131529 | Oven conveyor alignment system apparatus and method An oven conveyor alignment system for maintaining a conveyor belt centered on its supporting rollers is disclosed. The system comprises a camera that generates an image of alignment and stores it as a digital pixel representation. Thus, the system is able to take ad... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7028787 | Tong for wellbore operations A tong as may be used for a continuous circulation system in a wellbore. The tong has a housing with a hollow interior. A plurality of spaced apart jaw assemblies reside within the housing's hollow interior for engaging a portion of a tubular to be gripped and rotat... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6994140 | Device for constructing a belt for pneumatic vehicle tire Device for conveying and preparing belt construction strip having parallel reinforcing members embedded in belt construction material includes first and second conveying devices, successively positioned in the feed direction without lateral stops for belt constructi... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6550656 | Device for spreading, compressing and guiding a running material web A device for spreading, compressing or guiding a running material web formed by a rotatably supported roll. The roll has a number of slats distributed over its circumference which can be displaced transversely to the direction of the web. The slats are ac... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6379760 | Laminating apparatus The invention provides an apparatus and a process for producing laminated materials. The process comprises the steps of: (a) supplying material from a first supply roller; (b) supplying materials from a system comprising a plurality of further supply roll... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6352188 | Edge drive for photosensitive media A transport mechanism for transporting photographic media along a processing path. The mechanism includes a roller assembly having a pair of space support roller assemblies disposed along a common shaft. Each pair of roller assemblies having a support rol... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6062453 | Active disk guide A conveyor system and method for steering and shifting an associated strip component to a desired transverse position includes a sensor for sensing the transverse position of the associated strip component, a shaft rotatable about an axis generally perpen... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6013212 | Gauge distribution in tubular plastic film with edge control A method of controlling lateral wandering of flattened tubular plastic film in gauge distribution apparatus in which gauge distribution is effected by passing a flattened tubular plastic film around at least one turning bar whose position with respect to ... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5947617 | Skew correction mechanism for a roll paper A printer comprises a skew correction mechanism for a roll paper between a roll paper loading section and a recording section. The skew correction mechanism has a pair of first roller and second roller each having a guide surface for the roll paper, arran... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5942077 | Laminating apparatus An apparatus for producing laminated materials is provided, having a first supply roller, a system comprising a second and a third supply roller, and an electronic sensor which tracks lateral movement of a control line in material leaving the first supply... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5938098 | Servo valve A positive pressure operated servo apparatus for lateral alignment of a continuous web of paper, plastic, textiles and other materials which are being processed at windup, unwind, printing, coating, folding and slitting stations, or other intermediate poi... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5915611 | Conveyor assembly for strip material A conveyor assembly for strip material, wherein a conveyor feeds a strip of material axially through a centering device presenting two guide elements, which are movable into respective positions contacting the strip and symmetrical in relation to a refere... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5901647 | Process for driving equipment e.g. a folding device for a rotary press Various components in a rotary printing press are driven by suitable electric motors. Each component and its associated drive motor is provided with an angle position sensor. A tolerance range for the rotary angular position of each electric motor is sele... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5806746 | Method and apparatus for guiding webs in a web handling system A web guide particularly adapted for mail handling systems is positioned between the mail handling system form feeder and separating device. The web guide provides a surface to guide and control the web during its travel between the feeder and separating ... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5769298 | Guiding apparatus for webs having at least two thicknesses The present invention relates to a guide apparatus for guiding a moving web of material having a tuft portion mounted on a backing portion such that the backing portion extends outwardly from the tuft portion to form at least one tuft edge. The web is mov... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5727722 | Conveyor system A conveyor belt system comprises a main conveyor belt mounted about rollers and moveable to carry a web from an infeed area. The belt is porous and air is drawn from a vacuum box underlying the belt to create a pressure differential across the belt to hol... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5685248 | Bias correction device for a textile strip A device to remove any bias in the position of a cut line on a continuous strip of cloth. The device has at least two detecting devices located along a predetermined path to detect the position of the cut line and a straightening bar to tilt the continuou... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5664738 | Pneumatic web guide A positive pressure operated control apparatus for lateral alignment of a continuous web of paper, plastic, textiles and other materials which are being processed at windup, unwind, printing, coating, folding and slitting stations, or other intermediate p... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5647948 | Device for applying an adhesive substance in particular on carpet bottom support strips Apparatus for applying tracks of an adhesive substance on strip-shaped material, in particular to the back of bottom support strips that consist of strips of carpet. A guiding and transporting device transports the material in its longitudinal direction a... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5581908 | Device for drawing in material webs through a drier with a guide that can be closed-off Arrangements are described which allow a printing stock web to be reliably drawn through a drier. A draw-in member which grasps the tip of a printing stock web has a power transmission, e.g. a roller chain, which runs in a guide. Plates or blowing boxes w... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5395067 | System for controlling tape traveling height and tape guide with tape edge detector therefor A tape travel controlling system in a recording/reproducing apparatus according to the present invention includes a tape width detector, a tape traveling path adjuster for changing a set condition(s) for a tape guide(s), and a tape traveling path controll... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5377891 | Process for controlling the force on a moving web of material An process for controlling the force exerted on a moving web of material, including a batten roller having an adjustable drive and a fixing roller having a pressure sensor. An amplifier is coupled between the pressure sensor and the adjustable drive. A we... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5362041 | Sheet registering unit for an image forming apparatus A sheet registering unit for an image forming apparatus in which in the location upstream of the transfer stage, a preregistering roller device and a registering roller device are disposed while being separated with a predetermined distance from each othe... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5360152 | Web guidance mechanism for automatically centering a web during movement of the web along a curved path A web guidance mechanism for automatically centering a web in a thermal printer has an elongated base member with first and second end portions each defining a slot. A crank is rotatably mounted on the base member and has slider arms attached thereto. Web... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5310107 | Pneumatic compliant tape guidance device A pneumatic compliant tape guidance device for pneumatically applying a biasing load to a passing tape media. The tape guidance device includes at least one guide button and associated cylinder in which the guide button travels. It also includes a supply ... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5246099 | Belt steering roller mechanism and steering roll construction A belt steering roller mechanism for active steering correction of an endless belt, including a shaft having a longitudinal axis and a deformable roller having a fore end and an aft end and a predetermined diameter. The roller is rotatable about the shaft... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5174096 | Form-fill-seal type packaging machine A form-fill-seal packaging machine, which pulls out an elongated film from a film roll and transports it to a former to form it in a tubular shape, includes a mechanism with two parallel rollers such that the film path can be shifted transversely. The two... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5167751 | Apparatus for end correction of an automotive tire cord strip An apparatus for end correction of an automotive tire strip member comprises a conveyor belt for conveyance of a tire strip member consisting of rubberized steel cords to a tire building drum, which conveyor belt is narrower than the strip member, a suppo... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5098507 | Relieved plastic floor tile rolling press with an automatic alignment device A relieved plastic floor tile rolling press having an automatic alignment device comprising a surface roller from which a surface substratum with plane patterns printed thereon is unwound, a pressing roller on which recessed carves shaped the same as the ... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5087318 | Web-aligning apparatus Apparatus for aligning an elongate web with respect to a predetermined path of travel. The web is supplied from a supply roll formed by the web being wound around an inner web layer and having an outer web layer. The apparatus includes a frame, and an axl... | 02/11/1992 |
| 5080748 | Card assembly apparatus A current assembly apparatus and associated method for producing laminated cards such as credit cards including providing means for feeding printed card sheets to a laminating station and at the same time feeding top and bottom overlay webs also to the la... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5019864 | Electrophotographic film core device A film core for an electrophotographic copying or printing machine comprises a core frame member provided at opposite ends with rollers, such frame member being slightly flexible about a steering axis of one of said rollers, to allow pivotal movement of t... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4998117 | Thermal transfer printer In a thermal transfer recording apparatus comprising an ink film coated with a heat-fusion type ink, an ink film supplying roller rotatably mounted at a first support member, an ink film winding roller rotatably mounted at a second support member, and a r... | 03/05/1991 |
