Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7891530 | Method for axial correction in a processing machine, as well as a processing machine In a method for axial correction in a processing machine (100), which has at least two driven transport axles (110, 115) for transporting and processing a product web (101), at least one non-driven or driven processing axle (111, 112, 113, 11... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7870986 | Method and device for clearance adjustment for lead-in roller clearance adjustment mechanism A lead-in roller clearance adjustment mechanism includes a pair of lead-in rollers for guiding a web with a clearance therebetween and a clearance adjustment mechanism for adjusting an amount of clearance. The lead-in roller clearance adjustment mechanism further in... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7451902 | Web transporting mechanism of printing apparatus A web transporting mechanism of a printing apparatus has a buffer mechanism section for absorbing a fluctuation of the web length from a transporting section to a fixing section generated by a difference between a speed of transporting a web in the transporting sect... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7398903 | Wire-feeding device for a wire-processing machine A wire feeding device for very fine wire includes a straightening unit, a transporting unit, a wire buffer, and a wire guide arranged on a table on which a swivel unit with a wire drive is also arranged. The swivel unit serves wire-processing stations of a wire-proc... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7383773 | Apparatus for deflecting individual webs An apparatus for deflecting a printing material web coming from a printing press that is cut into at least two individual webs to laterally arranged processing devices. The apparatus includes a respective load-bearing frame for each individual web. A respective defl... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7374072 | Slide adjustable assembly for monitoring widthwise travel of an uncoiling steel band through a feeder system associated with a progressive die An assembly for ensuring a correct lateral positioning of an elongated material conveyed along a feeder system and prior to a forming operation. The elongated material is fed from such as an unreeling coil and includes first and second lateral edges. First and secon... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7165707 | Method and apparatus for feeding wire to a welding arc A method and apparatus for feeding wire in a welding system include one or more motors disposed adjacent the wire to drive it. A wire feed motor is also disposed along the wire path, and is closer to the source of wire than the torch, and closer to the source than t... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7134584 | Control method for guiding the movement of materials to be transported The invention relates to an open-loop control process for the motional guidance of conveyed material (32) in a conveying device (30) and to a corresponding conveying device (30). The conveying device (30) has a movable means (36) f... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7124671 | Method and device for reducing web breakage in a web cutter In a web cutter where a blade is used to cut a continuous paper web into sheets, a tractor is used to move the web past the blade for cutting. The tractor operates in a start-and-stop cycle so that the web is temporarily stopped to allow the blade to lower and shear... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7104712 | Roll sheet holder and tape printer A tape printer includes a holder support member at one side end in a roll sheet holder storage part in a direction substantially perpendicular to a feeding direction. In the holder support member, a mounting piece which is substantially rectangular in section and fo... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7067039 | Method and equipment in connection with a paper machine or a paper web finishing apparatus A variable representing runnability of a paper web to be manufactured with a paper machine or processed with a finishing apparatus is measured and the speed difference between operational groups of the paper machine and/or the finishing apparatus is adjusted on the ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7026575 | Device and method for identifying defects during the feeding of a welding rod The invention relates to a device for identifying defects during the feeding of a welding rod. A sensor assembly is located in the welding torch for detecting the feed pressure and the feed tension for the welding rod, a drive device for feeding the welding rod bein... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6991144 | Method of controlling tension in a moving web material A method of dynamically controlling the tension of a moving web material. A web material is transported with an apparatus. A modulus-of-elasticity-analog value is determined for the web material. The modulus-of-elasticity-analog value is used to adjust an instantane... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6985789 | Real-time determination of web tension and control using position sensors Web tension in web material passing through a web transport system is determined in real time using position sensors coupled to driven rollers that define a beginning and an end of a tension zone. The position sensors on the rollers provide information related to th... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6968254 | Feedback controlled tension applying system A feedback controlled tension applying system includes a corrugated fin processing device that processes a fin material in continuous sheet form while applying a tension to the fin material. A tension applying device applies the tension to the fin material. An encod... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6963048 | Method and apparatus for welding with mechanical arc control A method and apparatus for feeding wire from a source of wire to a weld includes one or more motors disposed adjacent the wire to drive the wire to the weld. A buffer is disposed between the source and an arc end of the torch. Another motor may be disposed near the ... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6782818 | Method for adjustment of a belt tension in a rotary press machine The tension of a web in a rotary printing machine is monitored and adjusted. The web runs through at least one printing group in the rotary printing machine. Any change in the stretch of the web during the production run is determined by noting any difference betwee... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6681695 | Continuous printing and mounting apparatus for film-like printing body A tension is applied to a film-like printing body to be processed in each of steps such as a printing step, a parts mounting step and the like. Further the processed film-like printing body is automatically fed out by a predetermined stroke. A supply unit... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6428222 | Sensor for identifying marks on a ribbon A reflective type light sensitive sensor assembly is used for sensing the position of marks on a surface moving past the sensor. A typical showing is in relation to sensing marks on a ribbon used during printing operations, or lamination operations. The s... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6256474 | Method and device for conveying a pre-printed striplike recording medium in a printing device A method and a device for controlling a drive unit which conveys a striplike laterally pre-printed recording medium, whereby a sensor is sensitized with respect to a regularly re-occurring mark of the recording medium. The recording medium is continuously... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6230478 | Differential length metering apparatus and method for the cabling of insulated conductors with fillers using the double twist process Apparatus and method for manufacturing helically wound insulated conductors with filament fillers includes first and second payoff stations for paying off a plurality of insulated conductors and elongate filaments of filler materials. These cable componen... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6213367 | Method of controlling the drive transporting a paper web in a printing machine A method of controlling the drive of the electric pretensioning unit of rotary printing machines having individually driven rotary printing cylinders and folders is specified, so that, in the event of changes being made to the paper grade or to the produc... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6176410 | Method and apparatus for controlling web delivery running at the start time of printing Drag rollers disposed in a region from the paper feed side to the paper discharge side of a printing machine are driven one after another from the paper feed side with torque control, by which the slack of a web is removed successively from the upstream s... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6092466 | Method for self-adjusting color and cut register control in rotary printing machines having a plurality of webs A method for self-adjusting color and cut register control in rotary printing machines having individual or a plurality of webs is specified, according to which the amount of relative web stretching of the individual web sections is calculated from the op... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6076718 | Method and apparatus for conveying expanded film A film conveying apparatus includes a conveying mechanism and a speed control mechanism. The conveying mechanism includes a plurality of lower rollers arranged in a lateral direction perpendicular to a film conveyed direction. The lower roller is equipped... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6042762 | Method and apparatus for the continuous withdrawal of a melt film from an extrusion nozzle In the production of thin film that is extruded onto a cooling roller and then fed through a further treatment station such as stretching roller station, it may become necessary to stop the extrusion if a fault is present in the further treatment station.... | 03/28/2000 |
| 5978613 | Device for monitoring the operation of a fixing station of an electrographic printing device An apparatus is provided in a printer to prevent wrapping of the paper web onto the printer's fixing roller which fixes the toner particles onto the paper web. The apparatus includes a sensor to monitor the speed and moving direction of the web at the out... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5937748 | Metal coil printing mechanism and metal coil press machines including registration control A metal coil printing mechanism for providing alignment between two patterns to be printed on a surface of the coil includes a blanket cylinder for applying a pattern to the metal coil and first and second plate cylinders which apply first and second patt... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5913469 | Method of and apparatus for ensuring a wire feed amount in manufacturing of wire harnesses Press rollers for being pressed respectively against wires are provided on an upper side of the wires while length-measuring rollers for respectively contacting the wires are provided on a lower side of the wires. A number of revolutions of each length-me... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5903794 | Processor and a drive system and method for driving a photosensitive material through the processor A primary drive assembly which drives photosensitive material through a photographic processor is provided at a point of a photoprocessing path of the processor at which a precise speed control is desired. A secondary drive assembly is provided downstream... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5794830 | System for incorporation of post-production operations to a web output from an image transfer device A system and method for incorporating, in the production of a continuous stream of images, by an image transfer device upon a moving web, post-production operations upon the web at various locations. Locations of a web, having a plurality of images placed... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5779378 | Continuous form printer A printer includes a tractor unit for feeding continuous form paper, encoders driven in synchronization with a tractor belt, and detecting sensors for detecting rotation of the encoders to generate feed pulses at a standard interval. The printer further i... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5768959 | Apparatus for feeding a web Apparatus and method for feeding a web having two portions in a path of travel. The apparatus comprises a first module including a device for feeding the two web portions in side-by-side relationship and a second module located downstream in the path of t... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5769299 | Recording sheet discharge mechanism A sheet feeder feeds a continuous form in a reverse feeding direction to the normal feeding direction from a position detected by a first sheet sensor. A timer counts a predetermined interval until the continuous form is surely fed by the distance from th... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5752153 | Method and apparatus for avoiding slip in transporting a recording substrate in a fixing station of an electrographic printer or copier In the fixing station, the recording substrate 4 is transported by friction between two rollers (1, 2). In order to tauten the recording substrate (4), it is braked by a braking device (3) upstream of the rollers (1, 2). A length equalizing element (5) eq... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5676479 | Feeding controller for printer A continuous form printer is provided with two rotary encoders, corresponding to different paper feed intervals, and mounted coaxially on a drive shaft. The drive shaft drives a tractor for feeding the paper. The rotary encoders are read by photo-interrup... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5669539 | Methods and apparatus for feeding sheet Apparatus for feeding flexible sheet (2) onto an inwardly facing curved surface (6) of an imagesetter comprises a feed system (3,4,7,8) for feeding the sheet from an input side onto and along the surface towards an output side. The feed system is also ada... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5544599 | Program controlled quilter and panel cutter system with automatic shrinkage compensation A quilting machine includes a multiple needle quilter with a panel cutter located in-line therewith and downstream thereof and having an accumulator therebetween. A programmable controller operates the quilter to stitch a programmed series of one or more ... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5478001 | Method and apparatus for monitoring coil stock feed A feed monitor for providing a selectable midcycle coil stock feed check on a mechanical power press. A midcycle position of the coil stock feed from which the press can be stopped prior to the reciprocating die contacting the coil stock is chosen. With e... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5475481 | Fixing device for electrophotographic imaging apparatus In an electrophotographic imaging apparatus, an imaging operation, to form an image on a continuous recording sheet, is executed. First, an unfixed toner image is transferred on the recording sheet, and fixed by a pair of fixing rollers, while the imaging... | 12/12/1995 |
