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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7383772 | Guiding elements for a printing unit A guiding element for a printing unit is provided to facilitate use of the printing unit in an imprinter function. In one operating situation, a strip is printed as it passes through a printing gap of the printing unit. In another operating situation, the strip is g... | 06/10/2008 |
| RE39601 | Method of and a device for transferring running dried web from one device to a subsequent device To accomplish a web transfer, which in reliability is comparable to the one obtained with a closed draw, in any operating environment, but especially where it is desirable to transfer a fast running tissue web (4) from the drying section of a tissue machine, ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7140828 | Non-contact aerodynamic diverter/stacker insertion system Objects such as pieces of mail are stacked without significant contact therewith by producing laminar air flow over a surface which defines or parallels a desired movement path for the objects. The objects are placed and form a barrier between the laminar air flow a... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7117775 | Method and apparatus for transferring a paper web A method of, and apparatus for, transferring a web, in particular a paper web or cardboard web or an insertion tail severed from the web, from a web-discharging web-guiding surface, via a web conveying apparatus, to the next structural unit of a machine for producin... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7089839 | Method and apparatus for transferring a paper web A method of, and apparatus for, transferring a web, in particular a paper web or cardboard web or an insertion tail severed from the web, from a web-discharging web-guiding surface, via a web conveying apparatus, to the next structural unit of a machine for producin... | 08/15/2006 |
| 6996955 | System for conveying packaging cushions There is provided a system that automatically delivers, monitors and replenishes a string of packaging cushions to hoppers located at multiple packing stations through an elongated cushion delivery duct having a series of intermediate outlets to permit the string of... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6910610 | Conveyor for air-filled packing pillows A conveying a chain of air-filled packing pillows to a selected position includes a generally upstanding duct, a support for supporting the device on a surface, and a pump positioned adjacent to the surface for supplying air to the device. The duct has an air inlet ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6808378 | Device for the production of moldings of plastic reinforced with long fibers Plastic moldings reinforced with long fibers are made without the risk of forming loops in a continuous thread or roving fed to a cutting unit at the end of a mold filling operation or tearing thereof during renewed start-up for the next molding filling operation, e... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6758998 | Method and device for inserting fibers in expanded form into a cavity or depositing them on a surface A method for filling a receiver with expanded fibers includes the steps of feeding at least one bundle of fibers from at least one roving; introducing the at least one bundle into a portable tool having a manual gripping element, a spray nozzle, an air supply device... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6646220 | Device and method of guiding a processing electrode in a machine tool Devices and methods for threading a wire electrode in a wire erosion machine are disclosed. A feed-through channel is provided for producing a fluid jet within which the machining electrode is guided. One or more control devices are provided for varying t... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6604463 | Device to compensate for print misregister due to paper distortion on web offset printing presses A printing web distortion device for imposing a measured amount of distortion into a moving web of substrate, such as paper, to compensate for lateral stretching of the substrate during a printing operation includes a post, which can be vertically adjuste... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6572081 | Installation of guide tubes in a protective duct Guide tubes are arranged in a loose bundle and are fed into an existing tubular conduit or protective duct by a powered tractor and are pulled through the duct by the volumetric flow of compressed air which is introduced into the inlet end of the duct. Th... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6533217 | Web-processing apparatus A web-processing apparatus comprises a dryer with air-turn apparatus for flotatingly supporting a web and, preferably, for changing a direction of web movement. The air-turn apparatus may be used in the web dryer or with other suitable web-processing equi... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6502735 | Device for the suspension guidance of a travelling web A device (100) for the suspension guidance of a travelling paper or paper-like web (B) by air and which is especially useful for deflecting a damp travelling paper web. The device has a plurality of air ducts (13) extending over the width of the web and b... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6461671 | Paper coating apparatus and method for coating paper Apparatus and method for coating a moving paper web, in which the web to be coated is first guided to a coating station correctly aligned and a first side of the web is coated with a coat layer. Next, the web is guided upwards from the coating station and... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6453644 | Method and means for producing, conveying, storing and utilizing air pillows Apparatus for producing and conveying air pillows comprises an air pillow production machine which produces a continuous web of air filled pillows, ductwork extending away from the air pillow production machine and through which the web of air pillows is ... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6454903 | Method and apparatus for the transfer of a lead strip of a paper web An apparatus transfers a lead strip of a paper web, in particular the beginning of a still wet lead strip or tail, from a press roll of a paper-making machine to a following section of that machine. An air jet device peels off the beginning of the tail fr... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6382875 | Process for laying a tube in a duct and device for pressurizing a tube during laying When a tube is laid in a duct by a blowing process, the extremity of the tube first introduced in the duct is fitted with an end cap fastened in an airtight fashion on said extremity and fitted with a valve suitable to control the pressure Pint... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6338598 | Conveying system for rigidly interconnected parts This invention relates to a conveying system (1) for rigidly interconnected parts (2), particularly on a machine tool for the further processing of semi-product parts, comprising a conveying duct (3) with at least one compressed air supply line (4a-4c) wi... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6336608 | Flexible web roller guide assembly with an integral centrifugal pump capability to provide a hydrostatic air bearing function to the roller guides outside supporting surface A combination flexible web roller guide assembly and an integral centrifugal pump (fan) functional device located inside the roller's outer surface where an air bearing flexible web support Hydrostatic air film is created upon the roller guide's exterior ... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6250581 | Web winding device and method Web winding device for winding a material web into a winding roll. The device comprises a rotatably driven first support roller having a circumferential shell and opposed ends, the shell having an outer surface, an inner surface and further having a plura... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6251477 | Paper coating apparatus and method for coating paper Apparatus and method for coating a moving paper web, in which the web (2) to be coated is first guided to a coating station (7) correctly aligned and a first side of the web (2) is coated with a coat layer. Next, the web (2) is guided upwards from the coa... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6073825 | Directional tail transfer threading apparatus A directional tail transfer apparatus includes a tray that defines a longitudinal path line extending along the tray overwhich a paper tail to be threaded travels. The longitudinal path line of the tray is positioned adjacent a first section in a papermak... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6068171 | Wire conveyance system having a contactless wire slacking device A wire conveyance system is provided for a wire bonding machine having, in series, a first wire handler, a wire slacking device and a second wire handler. The wire slacking device includes a wire support chamber having a substantially enclosed bottom, opp... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6047873 | Web feed guide apparatus In an apparatus for feeding and delivering a thin web in a longitudinal direction, a web guide for precisely controlling the lateral position of the web includes an assembly formed of a platen and mating cover. The platen is provided with an upper surface... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6039842 | Method and apparatus for stabilizing a moving low-strength sheet An apparatus for stabilizing a low-strength sheet having a width and a top surface and moving in a first direction at a rate sufficient to entrain air. The apparatus includes an airfoil adapted to extend along the top surface of the sheet. The airfoil, in... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6004432 | Sheet turn with vectored air supply In a papermaking machine for forming tissue paper, a turning bar is disposed having a curved surface about which a web of tissue paper is turned. The bar has an internal air plenum which supplies air to two sets of holes or slots. The first set is arrange... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5979731 | Method and apparatus for preventing creases in thin webs Method and apparatus for removing temporary longitudinal wrinkles (29) from a thin or ultra-thin moving web (11) in a web conveyance machine by bending the web through preferably at least 90 degrees around a cylindrical small-radius air bar (13, 35, 39, 6... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5976453 | Device and process for expanding strand material An expanding device for expanding strand material into a wool-type product includes outer and internal nozzle sections. The outer nozzle section has an entrance portion, an intermediate portion and an exit portion. At least a portion of the internal nozzl... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5884384 | Method for installing a tube or a bundle of tubes in an existing tubular duct A method for installing a tube or a bundle of tubes in an existing tubular conduit. The tube or tubes are passed into the existing tube by means of a fluid under pressure which is introduced into the existing tube at the inlet end. The tube or tubes can b... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5797327 | Device and method for guiding sheet material in a printing press, particulary in a sheet-fed rotary offset press A device for guiding sheet material in a printing press, the device having a guide surface located below a path in which a sheet is guidable, includes nozzles arranged in zones within the guide surface, the zones including a first zone extending along a l... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5775611 | Support for a traveling strand of rubber yarn A support for a traveling strand of rubber yarn being wound on a winder is disposed intermediate a rubber yarn supply in the winder with the support including a vertically oriented support member disposed upstream of the winder and downstream of the yarn ... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5759352 | Apparatus for stabilizing a moving low-strength sheet An apparatus for stabilizing a low-strength sheet having a width and a top surface and moving in a first direction at a rate sufficient to entrain air. The apparatus includes an airfoil adapted to extend along the top surface of the sheet. The airfoil, in... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5738760 | Method of and a device for transferring running dried web from one device to a subsequent device To accomplish a web transfer, which in reliability is comparable to the one obtained with a closed draw, in any operating environment, but especially where it is desirable to transfer a fast running tissue web (4) from the drying section of a tissue machi... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5680813 | Apparatus for the looping of a product stack by means of a looping strip A looping apparatus for the looping of a product stack with a looping strip. A table is provided so that the product stack can be driven into the looping apparatus and out of it by a conveying device. Further, a strip guide is provided on the table so tha... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5456802 | Threading vacuum sheave for a tissue calender A vacuum/blowing sheave on the end of the lower calender roll of a papermaking machine threads a tissue web tail from a Yankee dryer to a take-up reel through the calender. The sheave is positioned adjacent to the outlet of the threader tube from the Yank... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5429575 | Cigarette filter manufacture In a cigarette filter rod manufacturing plant at least one tow bale (6; 108) is located in a position remote from the corresponding tow opening machine (2; 100) and a conveying system (10; 112) is provided for transporting the tow to the machine. In a pre... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5372290 | Apparatus for removing a running torn web of material An apparatus for removing a running torn web of material is disclosed having two rollers parallel to each another disposed on a same side of the running web of material, so that the axes of the two rollers are orientated horizontal to each other and perpe... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5328136 | Method and device for positioning the beginning of a web of material, especially a web of paper, against the roll of a winder from below An apparatus for positioning the beginning of a web of material, especially paper, against the roll of a winder from below. The beginning of the web is conveyed up against an upright plate-shaped web-positioning mechanism by compressed air. The compressed... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5273196 | Tape transport apparatus An endless tape transport apparatus is comprised of a tape transport unit having a tape feeding device for transporting an endless tape, a tape compartment unit in which the endless tape is housed, the endless tape being transported around the tape transp... | 12/28/1993 |
