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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6971619 | Airglide computer mouse pad having whisper surfaces A computer mouse pad comprises a rigid base and a plurality of fanfolded paper sheets arranged in a stack and detachably fixed to the base. Each of the stacked sheet is detachably fixed to a sheet immediately below it in the stack through microperfs. A subtle openin... | 12/06/2005 |
| 5727725 | Fan-fold paper stacking receptacle with angled bottom and canted back wall A container for stacking continuous web, fan-fold paper and a paper guide assembly are disclosed. The container has a contoured bottom that includes an extended center section which is slopped, a toe section at the lower end of the center section, and a c... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5555970 | Device for the quick change of tracks Device for the quick change of tracks, which is suitable to cooperate with a traction unit (12) of a type with two facing tracks (11) such as that of EP-A-548723, for instance, and comprises a movable trolley (13), which has in a position substantially at... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5480245 | Gaming device with an improved paper supply system A gaming device is shown having a controller that controls the operation of the gaming device and a printer that records events on paper in response to the controller. A first magazine is provided for holding fan folded paper to be input to the feed mecha... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5366130 | Dancer roller having multi-rack and pinion tension control A device is adapted to reduce as much as possible the effective length of a spring for providing a load on a mobile member, such as a dancer roller for absorbing the slackness in a web of packaging material, with respect to the distance by which it may mo... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5363998 | Restacking tray for fan fold paper feeder A tray for use with a mechanism for feeding fan fold paper along a predetermined travel path. The tray comprises an upstanding wall member and a floor member located in juxtaposition with the upstanding wall member. The floor member has a first portion fo... | 11/15/1994 |
| 4919990 | Paper buster A flexible panel or sheet adapted for installation in a printer for separating the incoming blank paper web from the outgoing printed paper web. The sheet is wide enough to span (overlap) perforations in edge areas of the paper that are used to pull the p... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4869410 | Magnetic tape container A magnetic tape container for use in combination with a magnetic tape duplicating apparatus in which a long, endless, master magnetic tape is circulated to produce many duplicates of the master magnetic tape. The magnetic tape container has most of the lo... | 09/26/1989 |
| 4817844 | Endless ink ribbon cassette An endless ink ribbon cassette wherein a ribbon is drawn from a storage void for printing and reintroduced into the storage void after printing. The cassette includes a first driven induction wheel having first and second rim portions spaced apart on an a... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4770332 | Coiled line tangle inhibitor A coiled line tangle inhibitor which comprises a flexible sheath that encases a relatively loosely coiled line to prevent it from tangling with itself as well as tangling with adjacent lines, which also would be sheathed by this invention. The sheath, alt... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4587128 | Process for making a snack food product Snack food product in which a piece of cake is coated with a fruit jelly or a creme bonding layer and with a sticky icing over the bonding layer. The process for making the product includes applying a pressure bearing member to the icing to press it into ... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4367832 | Loop lifter A loop lifter for continuous strip rolling mills has an arm which is journalled in a support for pivotal movement about a horizontal axis. An end portion of the arm carries a freely turnable roll which can engage a loop from below and lift it upwardly. A ... | 01/11/1983 |
| 4301957 | Ribbon cartridge A ribbon cartridge of the type having a body portion wherein an endless ribbon is contained in a fan-folded condition during use, includes a removable partition which is extendable entirely across and through the body portion between the inlet and outlet ... | 11/24/1981 |
| 4189133 | Document stacking table lowering method, apparatus and controlling circuitry therefor A document stacking table is lowered in steps under electronic control as the documents accumulate. A predetermined number of documents are stacked, after which the table is lowered by a predetermined amount. An optical sensing arrangement is used to dete... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4146193 | Flexible tape receiving and storage container A receiving and storage container according to the present invention provides the ability to collect a tape strip and to store the same between a pair of substantially parallel walls and include an opening in the container arranged such that the leading e... | 03/27/1979 |
| 4131358 | Device for moving a path of a moving data carrier toward and away from a surface area of a sub-carrier A device for moving a path of a moving data carrier toward and away from a surface area of a sub-carrier characterized by two pivotal support members which are mounted to pivot about respective pivot points and are pivotable between a first or forward pos... | 12/26/1978 |
| 4127225 | Tape storage bin An improved storage bin is provided for storing a flexible tape so that it can be moved in and out of the bin at relatively high speeds. Air is injected to establish a vertical pressure gradient to support the tape in the bin, and the bin has a tapered ge... | 11/28/1978 |
| 4095316 | Carabiner A carabiner consisting of a C-shaped, elongated body member and an elongated closure member pivotally movable on one longitudinally terminal portion of the body member toward and away from a closing position in which both members jointly constitute a clos... | 06/20/1978 |
| 4074582 | Hoisting device The invention pertains to a hoisting device, characterized by the fact that it mainly consists of a housing to which the load is suspended, and in this housing a driving pulley consisting of two half pulleys for the cable, which is suspended from a fixed ... | 02/21/1978 |
| 4055289 | Photographic apparatus A photographic apparatus in which strip-shaped material is to be advanced by means of a travelling leader tape, has a carrier for the strip-shaped material, the carrier being formed with a channel. An arrangement is provided by means of which the leader t... | 10/25/1977 |
| 4054235 | Continuous forms sheet separator Apparatus to separate multiple sheet feeds from fan-fold paper being moved from an input paper stack upwardly to a print station. The separator apparatus includes a separator member, and flexible members support the separator member for swinging movement ... | 10/18/1977 |
| 4022368 | Tape cartridge having enhanced tape drive facilities A tape-containing cartridge accommodates an endless tape either in the form of random loops or in the form of a tape roll wound on a single reel. A tape passageway extends the cartridge from a cavity adjacent a back wall, thence between a first side wall ... | 05/10/1977 |
| 4003510 | Process and apparatus for extending the life of the belt of a delivery device for textile filaments The wear due to the filaments on a circulating delivery belt having a surface for receiving thereon a stream of textile filaments and conveying them, for example in a false-twist texturing machine, is reduced by feeding the filaments, just prior to reachi... | 01/18/1977 |
| 3993233 | Web slack box having a plurality of sections A slack box for accumulating continuous web material having a plurality of vertically spaced sections separated by movable members. When the amount of web material in a selected one of the sections reaches a predetermined amount, the movable members, star... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3973707 | Stuffed ribbon cartridge A spoolless ribbon cartridge containing a length of inked ribbon which is formed into an endless loop and stuffed into the cartridge to form a plurality of random convolutions or folds of ribbon therein. The cartridge has a specially-shaped ribbon storage... | 08/10/1976 |