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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7350310 | Articulating device Disclosed is a method of moving an articulating mechanism (22,410) for a measuring device, comprising the steps of: releasing two bodies (14,16, 410a,410b) which form the articulating mechanism allowing relative movement thereof; m... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7337936 | Continuous paper transporting mechanism and printing apparatus having the same A printing apparatus having a mechanism for transporting continuous paper includes: a frictionally transporting section for frictionally transporting the continuous paper; a paper braking section provided on an upstream side of the frictionally transporting section;... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7201822 | Method of placing a material transversely on a moving web Disclosed herein is a method by which a material may be placed onto a moving web in a transverse orientation. At least two assemblies, which carry either a first and a second web or a single web, periodically overlap each other in an alternating fashion such that a ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7059227 | Paper abutted ruler A paper abutted ruler is provided which can easily be moved on the surface of a surface plate and can simply and accurately be positioned in place. The paper abutted ruler is constructed such that magnet bases rotatably supported at their one ends to a bottom portio... | 06/13/2006 |
| 6969206 | Tension generating mechanism for a printing apparatus A printing apparatus includes a conveyance mechanism for conveying a web to a transfer unit, and a tension generating mechanism for applying a tension to the web fed to the conveyance mechanism, wherein the tension generating mechanism includes a tension generating ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6769359 | Paper-web holding apparatus for rotary printing press A paper-web holding apparatus is provided in a rotary printing press having rollers which form a path for a paper web fed from a paper web feeding unit to travel along to a folding unit via a press unit and around which the paper web is wrapped. The paper-web holdin... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6513427 | Device for guiding material webs in rotary presses A device for guiding material webs (A through D; E through H) via an angle-bar deck (2), including a folding section that is arranged on a plurality of planes (3.1, 3.2, 3.3), from where the material webs (A through D), (E through H) enter folding apparat... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6454150 | Soft-start feature for continuous web cutters A method and device for improving the throughput of a continuous web cutter, which is operated in move-and-pause cycles to allow the web to be cut into cut sheets. To avoid tear and web breakage, the web is fed at a low cycle rate at the starting stage. T... | 09/24/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6085957 | Volumetric feed control for flexible filament A volumetric feed control apparatus for a build material element such as a filament used in a three-dimensional modeling machine having an application tip includes a pair of feed rollers feeding the filament to the application tip, and a sensor or sensor ... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6026885 | Electronic component feeder An electronic component feeder is provided for feeding electronic components in their stable position into an electronic component mounting apparatus and allowing the taking up of a top tape with high stability thus increasing the speed of component mount... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5833105 | Stamping press damped follower loop control system Stock material is supplied to a machine press by a coiled material supply apparatus which utilizes a damped follower loop control system for distributing loop reaction among two separate loops so as to reduce coil material slippage and deformation caused ... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5813586 | Apparatus and method for controlling web speed There is provided an apparatus for controlling the infeed speed of a bag making machine. In one embodiment, the nip roll speed is changed from a variable speed to a fixed speed after a cycle interrupt occurs. Once a dancer arm returns to an upward positio... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5650028 | Container label and system for applying same A label for a glass container is preprinted with inks and adhesive on a separable substrate and cured, and the printed label is then transferred to the container. The labelled container is then coated with a protective material. The label application appa... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5647276 | Web tension regulator for printing machine An apparatus for use with a printing press including a tension regulator for maintaining a substantially constant tension level on a web of printing medium passing through the printing press. The printing press has at least one dancer roller, and the tens... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5608159 | Freeze seal and freeze clamp for cables, wires, optical fibers and the like A freeze device for an elongated element includes a pressure vessel disposed about at least a part of the element and a freeze seal between the part of the elongated element and the pressure vessel. The freeze seal includes a frozen material exerting a fo... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5531859 | Electronic component feeder An electronic component feeder is provided for transferring a succession of electronic components borne by a carrier tape toward a pickup position one by one, the carrier tape having a backing strip and a protective cover strip adhesively secured to the b... | 07/02/1996 |
| 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 |
| 5188580 | Plastic film bag manufacturing apparatus and associated methods, and plastic film bags produced thereby An in-line machine for attaching elongated, flexible closure tie elements to the individual bag portions of a laterally folded plastic film web being continuously discharged from a bag forming station, and being forcibly captured by a winder mechanism, en... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5050858 | Sheet feed control method There is provided a sheet feed control method for feeding sheets at a predetermined pitch to the printing section of a printing machine that comprises a sheet feeding roller and a pair of small rollers provided one upstream and the other down stream and p... | 09/24/1991 |
| 4869393 | Method and apparatus for peeling a covering tape from a component supply tape A top cover is peeled from a component supply tape by passing the cover around a guide surface and in a peeling direction generally reverse to the feeding direction of the supply tape while moving the guide surface in the peeling direction in order to min... | 09/26/1989 |
| 4848630 | Method and apparatus for positioning a web of material in stepwise transporation thereof For accurate positioning of a web of material which is to be transported stepwise by at least first and second feed means through processing stations disposed therebetween, the feed means are controlled by a programmable computer which stores a value repr... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4812347 | Method for manufacturing a tape of photographic slides A method of manufacturing a tape of sequential, framed photographic slide in which at least one side of each frame not containing picture information is removably fixed by an adhesive to a continuous tape which moves rectilinearly in a direction parallel ... | 03/14/1989 |
| 4751879 | Method and apparatus for intermittently processing successive definite lengths of a continuous flexible web A system is provided for intermittently processing successive definite lengths of flexible sheet material in continuous web form, e.g., tractor-fed computer printout paper, with nearly tensionless transport of the web through web feeding operations, cycli... | 06/21/1988 |
| 4723488 | Apparatus for intermittently feeding continuous paper in a printing press An impression cylinder (11) and a blanket cylinder (2) are made in contact with/separated from each other at prescribed timing. Continuous paper (12) inserted between the impression cylinder (11) and the blanket cylinder (2) is intermittently fed in assoc... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4665619 | Method and apparatus for working on sheet material A method and apparatus for working on sheet material utilizes a table having two spaced coplanar lips across which sheet material is stretched to be worked on by a tool supported from a movable carriage spanning the table. Clamping units attached to the t... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4633694 | Automatic control on strip continuous processing lines Gradual acceleration/deceleration of continuous strip processing lines is achieved by suspending manual selected acceleration/deceleration control in favor of predetermined low acceleration/deceleration rates when the line speed is below a pre-established... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4630071 | XY recorder An XY recorder in which a recording paper is moved on a platen along the X axis in accordance with one variable and a stylus is moved along the Y axis in accordance with another variable, employs a controller to control the paper movement in several diffe... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4589580 | Web handling and accumulation system A fabric accumulation apparatus including a housing defining a fabric entrance, a fabric exit and a generally vertical fabric storage area therebetween. A gate is located along the fabric housing, being moveable between a closed and an open position. Firs... | 05/20/1986 |
| 4512079 | Method and apparatus for indexing sheet material In a plotter, an elongated strip of plotting paper extends between rolls at opposite ends of a plotting table to receive graphic information from a plotting instrument that is carried over the table by means of a motor controlled carriage. Different segme... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4485949 | Controlled frictional feeding of computer forms web A document feeding method and apparatus for frictionally (non-sprocket) feeding computer forms web having sprocket holes to the imaging station of a copier for copying, compatible with individual document sheet feeding. After automatically determining tha... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4320192 | Adjusting successive steps for making carrier tape A strip 20 has a drive margin 36 and a latent image of a pattern in a light sensitive coating 73 of a pattern portion 22 thereon. To avoid disturbing the pattern, the strip 20 is gripped by the drive margin 36 using a set 43 of pinch-drive rollers which d... | 03/16/1982 |
| 4295912 | Apparatus and process for laminating composite tape A composite tape made of highly different components is laminated in a process that maintains registry between the components. Strips of metal and insulating material are aligned in registry and first tack bonded at intervals. Then the strips are area bon... | 10/20/1981 |
| 4269342 | Resiliently stabilized web movement for honeycomb machine An array of dancer rollers are resiliently biased for engaging a plurality of webs in a take-up zone of a honeycomb machine. The dancer rollers engage each web and thrust it out of its plane of advance to maintain the webs under continuous tension loading... | 05/26/1981 |
| 4261779 | Indexing roll drive system A short dwell indexing drive system for intermittently moving a web of thermosealing material through a bag machine includes a conjugate cam defined by a pair of disc cams on a continuously driven input or cam shaft which engage cooperating groups of cam ... | 04/14/1981 |
| 4227983 | Method for making carrier tape A strip 20 has a drive margin 36 and a latent image of a pattern in a light sensitive coating 73 of a pattern portion 22 thereon. To avoid disturbing the pattern, the strip 20 is gripped by the drive margin 36 using a set 43 of pinch-drive rollers which d... | 10/14/1980 |
| 4165829 | Method of feeding electrode wire and apparatus for performing same The disclosed method consists in that the electrode wire has the portion thereof intermediate the supply coil and the welding arc alternatingly retained at one of two points, with an effort applied to the wire in the respective retaining point, causing tr... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165028 | Method for controlling a web of material A method for controlling the movement of a web of material. The web material advances in a forward direction, thus creating an unsupported loop which characterizes the festoon arrangement of the invention. Web material is advanced into the festoon dependi... | 08/21/1979 |
| 4131224 | Detachable indexing device and method An apparatus having a table defining a work surface, and a carriage mounted for movement over the work surface in one direction includes a device for precisely indexing a strip of sheet material in the same direction so that various sections of the strip ... | 12/26/1978 |
| 4060187 | Process and apparatus for permanently controlling the movement of web of material continuously delivered to a machine processing the web A method and apparatus for permanently controlling movement of a web of material, which is being continuously supplied to a machine which operates sequentially on a portion of the web as each portion is at a standstill, characterized by using an apparatus... | 11/29/1977 |
