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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7183730 | Method and apparatus for receiving and manipulating sheet material Disclosed are systems and methods for receiving and manipulating the travel of a sheet material, such as paper, from a device such as an imaging device. One embodiment of a system can be implemented as a system for handling a sheet material including a flipper devic... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7168872 | Printer paper spooler with error condition detector Disclosed is a printer paper spooler with error condition detector including a first slot structure and a second slot structure, a bobbin disposed between the first slot structure and the second slot structure, a light emitting diode, and a phototransistor that rece... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7121063 | Method for controlling zipper tension in packaging equipment Methods and apparatus for controlling the tension of one continuous material (e.g., plastic zipper) with attachments or formed features (e.g., sliders or formed slider end stops) as it is fed to a sealing station, where it is joined to and later pulled by another co... | 10/17/2006 |
| 6843038 | Method and apparatus for controlling zipper tension in packaging equipment Methods and apparatus for controlling the tension of one continuous material (e.g., plastic zipper) with attachments or formed features (e.g., sliders or formed slider end stops) as it is fed to a sealing station, where it is joined to and later pulled by another co... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6766737 | Method for controlling a circumferential register in a web-fed rotary press The circumferential register of a web passing through printing units of a web-fed rotary press is accomplished by determining an actual value of the tension in the web. An angular position or an angular velocity of a cylinder of a first print unit, with respect to a... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6659006 | Tension control device for a printing press A tension control device for a printing press having an adjustment roller, with a web of the press passing from a supply roll of the web to the adjustment roller. Means are provided for measuring the tension on opposed sides of the web passing downstream ... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6575346 | Torque capstan that improves reverse oscillating lay (ROL) consistency during an optical fiber cable manufacturing process A torque capstan is provided for use in an optical fiber cable manufacturing process which enables reverse oscillating lay (ROL) length to be maintained. The torque capstan comprises a first portion having at least two pulleys rotationally mounted thereon... | 06/10/2003 |
| 5392976 | Servo system A master tape movable in a closed loop including a pinch roller transfers a mirror image to a slave tape movable in a closed loop including a capstan. A thermomagnetic layer on the slave tape has a Curie temperature above which magnetic information is des... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5386772 | High speed media management device A high speed media management device has tractor means for moving a web through the device past a plurality of work stations at each of which the web may be treated. Relatively high web tension is maintained throughout its travel path. Counting means near... | 02/07/1995 |
| 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 |
| 4951895 | Tire constituting member winding tension controlling apparatus A winding tension controlling apparatus controls tensile force to be applied to a tire constituting member spirally wound about a building drum. The apparatus comprises a memory device for storing patterns of tensile forces, a detecting sensor for always ... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4728089 | Cloth spreading apparatus A cloth spreading apparatus 10 for spreading cloth from a cloth roll 16 supported by an expandable mandrel 20 onto a work surface 14. The apparatus includes a carriage assembly 24 movable on the work surface between first and second locations. A mounting ... | 03/01/1988 |
| 4726293 | Wrinkle-preventing passive roller system for printing machines A wrinkle-preventing mechanism for a high-speed printer, in which the web constituting the printing medium passes between skewed image and pressure cylinders while being subjected thereby to a high pressure, includes a flat-surfaced, rigid pressure pad un... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4542893 | Overlapping document strip conveying method and apparatus An apparatus and method whereby two superposed strips (26, 28) of documents are conveyed in a direction of conveyance (30) toward a downstream workstation. The strips (26, 28) are conveyed over one another in a direction of superposition whereby the leadi... | 09/24/1985 |
| 4419003 | Recording sheet conveying system of pressure fixing type electrostatic printing apparatus An electrostatic printing apparatus of the pressure fixing type having a toner image formed on a recording sheet fixed by applying pressure, including a tension imparting device for imparting to the recording sheet a tension oriented in the direction of t... | 12/06/1983 |
| 4403718 | Method and apparatus for automatically controlling travel of two plastics film strips as a bag material or the like This invention provides an improved method and apparatus for automatically controlling travel of two transversely spaced parallel plastics film strips in a bag-making machine or the like that can correct rapidly the relative positional gaps produced betwe... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4351460 | Transport system for photo-typesetting machine A flexible sheet transport system comprising a primary mechanism for feeding the flexible sheet at a predetermined velocity in either a forward or a reverse direction, a tension roller assembly disposed in the path of the flexible sheet so as to be fricti... | 09/28/1982 |
| 4326656 | Evacuated printing platen Printing platen for positioning a recording medium such as paper which includes an evacuated chamber having a slotted face plate for attracting, holding and guiding the paper. Slots are arranged parallel to each other and the direction of paper travel, an... | 04/27/1982 |
| 3974948 | Web tension control device In a web processing machine wherein a continuous web is fed over idler rollers so as to form a web loop at which the web passes over a sensing roller mounted on rod members for pivotal movement toward and away from the idler rollers, a web tension control... | 08/17/1976 |
