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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7392631 | Blistering machine for producing blister packs A blistering machine for producing blister packs has a production line, which includes consecutively: at least one thermoforming station of a first continuous band of thermoformable material; a station for feeding the products and filling the blister band; a feeding... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7322760 | Antijamming device for printers put in public places An antijamming device for a printed ticket vending machine having an exit opening for exiting of a printed ticket and a control for controlling feeding of unprinted tickets to a printing mechanism for printing tickets, having a pathway through which printed tickets ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7261789 | Method of producing paperboard product with an even thickness A method is disclosed for producing a multilayer paperboard product, as well as an assembly suited for implementing the method and a paperboard manufactured according to the method, whereby the paperboard is made from at least two, advantageously three layers (4,... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7047852 | Feedforward control system for an elastic material A process for providing feedforward control to control the feed rate of an elastic material. The process involves measuring the distance between registration marks on the elastic material prior to cut-off. These measurements are compared to a target cut length. The ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7017484 | Method for controlling an apparatus for controlling a cutting position of a web member and device therefor A control method for controlling a cut-off control apparatus in a printing press comprises a step of detecting an unstable factor such as a revolution number of a cylinder/a tensile value of a web in a printing press, a step for setting a stable factor such as a rev... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7007602 | Method and apparatus for controlling a cutting position of a web member and device therefor A method and apparatus for controlling the cutting position of a web member in a printing press by setting a reference tensile value, detecting the present tensile value of a web in a printing press during an actual printing operation, and controlling the starting a... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6928929 | Process for making sheet having indicia registered with lines of termination An apparatus and process for making sheets having indicia spaced in a machine direction. Between or among the indicia are perforations or chop-off cuts. The spacing, in the machine direction, between the indicia and perforations or chop-off cuts is maintained over l... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6921359 | Apparatus for feeding zipper with sliders to packaging machine Methods and apparatus for feeding continuous zipper material with sliders to a thermoforming packaging machine that advances the packaging film N package lengths each advance, where N is a positive integer greater than unity. In the packaging machine, pockets are th... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6486904 | Thermal transfer printer that is capable of maintaining intermediate transfer sheet tension constant The thermal transfer line printer is provided with tension roller position detection means having tension rollers, rotatable tension roller support frames that support the tension rollers rotatably and press the tension rollers toward an intermediate shee... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6401786 | Device for making stretch cushion strap assemblies A laminated stretch cushion strap assembly having a stretchable cover, a stretchable cushion filler and a stretchable bottom or bottom fabric. The cover includes a stretchable top fabric, a first adhesive web layer positioned on one side of the top fabric... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6402405 | Method and device for page by page conveyance of a pre-printed striplike recording medium in a printer A method and device to control a paper drive mechanism of an electrographic printer or copier by friction feed. Optical markings are provided on the recording medium, and a sensor scans an area of the recording medium for the optical marking during transp... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6293453 | Apparatus and method for controlling drag roller An apparatus for and a method of controlling a drag roller in a printing machine to move a web with no shift of a printing position and enhance the printing quality remarkably, even when the drag roller varies in diameter due to its temperature change. Fr... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6293192 | Newsprint core brake system for newspaper presses Combined newsprint core brake system and newsprint supply reel in a continuous running roll press, for full and fractional running web supply, web tension sensor control braking coupled to core chucking spindles in the running newsprint roll core position... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6273313 | Process and apparatus for controlling the registration of converting operations with prints on a web A process and apparatus for maintaining the registration of folds with successive indicia on an advancing paper web is provided. The apparatus includes a control system for detecting the location of the indicia relative to a folding operation and adjustin... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6245168 | Process and apparatus for registering continuously moving stretchable layers A process and apparatus for controllably registering two continuously moving layers of material is provided. One of the layers is elasticized and has a plurality of reference marks representing a plurality of separate and distinct components, and the othe... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6209606 | Apparatus for producing packaging material having a tear tape A teartape for packaging materials, and particularly such materials based on polyolefin films, includes a base film coated with a pressure sensitive adhesive composition. The teartape is affixed to the packaging material by the adhesive composition. This ... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6207001 | Method for cutting thin tapes and films Improved method and apparatus for cutting or severing thin webs, especially adhesive transfer tapes, and other relatively thin materials which prevents or minimizes tearing.... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6206263 | Material advance tracking system The friction drive system for printing, plotting or cutting graphic images on strip material includes a feedback for a drive motor driving a plurality of friction wheels for advancing strip material in a longitudinal direction. The feedback signal include... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6094945 | Device for feeding an elastically extendable yarn to hosiery knitting machines A device for feeding an elastically extendable yarn to hosiery knitting machines, which includes a positive yarn feeder composed of two mutually opposite contrarotating rollers which have parallel axes and between which the yarn to be fed passes. Elements... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6067778 | Packaging container production equipment and packaging container production method A packaging container production method for forming tubular web from sheet-like web and producing hexahedral packaging containers, wherein in order to secure a prescribed web W feeding amount, the operating amount of lug folding flaps, which forms a seali... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6033502 | Process and apparatus for registering continuously moving stretchable layers A process and apparatus for controllably registering two continuously moving layers of material is provided. One of the layers is elasticized and has a plurality of reference marks representing a plurality of separate and distinct components, and the othe... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5964970 | Registration process and apparatus for continuously moving elasticized layers having multiple components A process and apparatus for controllably registering two continuously moving layers of material is provided. One of the layers is an elastic film and has a plurality of reference marks representing a plurality of separate and distinct components, and the ... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5932039 | Process and apparatus for registering a continuously moving, treatable layer with another A process and apparatus for controllably registering two continuously moving layers of material is provided. One of the layers comprises a permanently settable material, and has a plurality of reference marks representing a plurality of separate and disti... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930139 | Process and apparatus for registration control of material printed at machine product length A process and apparatus for controllably registering two continuously moving layers of material is provided. A continuously moving first layer has a plurality of components thereon, and a continuously moving second layer has a plurality of reference marks... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5915612 | Registration system for web feeding An apparatus is disclosed for controlling the motion of a machine system so as to cut individual lengths from a web having graphics on predetermined web positions and which allows the use of an inexpensive AC induction motor. An AC induction motor has an ... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5839688 | Method and apparatus for producing a roll of bathroom tissue or kitchen toweling with a pattern being repeated between each pair of transverse perforations A method and apparatus for producing a roll or log of bathroom tissue or kitchen toweling with a pattern being repeated between each pair of transverse perforations wherein an extensible web having a pattern thereon repeated at equally longitudinally spac... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5809390 | Device for controlling pinless paper movement in a continuous forms printer A continuous forms printer utilizing paper without pinholes along each edge is provided with a first paper transfer device on the input side of the printing station and a second paper transfer device on the output side of the printing station. The two pap... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5783007 | Method for splicing heat transfer printing paper The disclosed apparatus implements a method of joining two sheets of heat transfer paper into a single sheet almost twice as wide for use in heat transfer printing of extra wide cloth. The paper is withdrawn from source rolls and passed along first and se... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5779124 | Negative film transfer apparatus and method for correcting standard transfer distance based on pulse count between successive indentification data A passing movement analyzer is responsive to a pulse signal from a data reader to calculate the time of passing movement of a negative film. The passing of one frame of the negative film is considered detected when two identification codes of the film are... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5772834 | Plastic substrate production production device This invention relates to a plastic substrate production process, the production device for such a substrate, and the use of the process for the production of integrated circuit boards. The plastic substrate production process is characterized in that it ... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5766389 | Disposable absorbent article having a registered graphic and process for making A process for controllably registering two continuously moving layers of material is provided. One of the layers of material has a plurality of reference marks representing a plurality of separate and distinct components, and the other of the continuously... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5695106 | Correction of registered servo indexed webs A bag making machine automatically cuts off and seals plastic from a web of film in register with regularly spaced eyemarks. A correction system is disclosed for use when the film gets out of register with the eyemarks. When the correction system is activ... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5660675 | Method and apparatus for splicing heat transfer printing paper The disclosed apparatus implements a method of joining two sheets of heat transfer paper into a single sheet almost twice as wide for use in heat transfer printing of extra wide cloth. The paper is withdrawn from source rolls and passed along first and se... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5542350 | Draw-in device and process for feeding webs of material into a printing machine A draw-in device for feeding a plurality of printing stock webs, preferably paper webs, in which draw-in elements of finite length grasp the start of a paper web and draw it out of reel changers and draw mechanisms through printing units and up to folding... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5469720 | Machine for dyeing fabrics wound up into endless fabric loops The present invention provides a machine for dyeing fabrics wound up into cords using the overflow or jet system, comprising two or more overflow or jet units arranged in series in a single tank, in which the speed of the various reels of each overflow or... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5415092 | Device for presetting a cut-off register in a folder of a web-fed printing press A device for presetting a cut-off register in a folder of a web-fed printing press, includes a marking device for applying at least one mark in an image-free region between two printed images of a web, a detector for detecting the image-free region on the... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5312033 | Web conveyor drive system A web conveyor drive system, for example of the suction box type, employs independent motor drives for each of the plurality of drive rollers in the suction drive. Web tension drive loads are equalized across the drive rollers by controlling the individua... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5289770 | Device for presetting a cut-off register in a folder of a web-fed printing press A device for presetting a cut-off register in a folder of a web-fed printing press, includes a marking device for applying at least one mark in an image-free region between two printed images of a web, a detector for detecting the image-free region on the... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5257712 | Apparatus for applying a non-woven web to a concurrently moving carrier web In an apparatus for applying a non-woven web to a moving carrier web, a straight configuration of the longitudinal edges of the non-woven web being applied to the carrier web is obtained by controlling the feeding speed of the feeder for the non-woven web... | 11/02/1993 |
| 5209589 | Apparatus and method for minimizing printer scan error In a printer assembly including a printhead which moves in a first direction for printing on a sheet of paper, roller means having an outer cylindrical periphery that engages the sheet of paper at successive tangent points on the periphery for moving the ... | 05/11/1993 |
