British merchant Peter Durand invented the tin can in 1810.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7934712 | Device for collecting printed products on a collecting cylinder A device for collecting printed products includes a rotating collecting cylinder to and a controllable holding device that holds and releases the printed products collected in a peripheral area of the collecting cylinder. A diverter includes an exposed end and a sup... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7338425 | Variable length cutting device A variable length cutting device includes a cutting cylinder and a transfer cylinder. The transfer cylinder cooperates with the cutting cylinder for cutting a ribbon into signatures having a desired cutoff length. An adjustable diameter portion of the transfer cylin... | 03/04/2008 |
| 6840616 | Air folder adjuster apparatus and method An air folder adjuster (10) includes an air supply (12) and air supply tubing (14) connected to air supply (12) at end (16). The opposite end (18) of air supply tubing (14) is connected to one or more air nozzles (... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6827013 | Precollect method and device A method and device for combining folios between a first and a second web in a rotary printing press. A first folio is cut from a third web in the rotary press, the first folio is stored on a storage device and then transferred from the storage device to a position ... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6250622 | Cylinder assembly for a folding apparatus of a rotary printing press The present invention is related to a paper conducting cylinder in a folder which is assigned to a rotary printing press such as a rotary newspaper printing press. A plurality of cylinder's surface sections (19) is mounted about the circumference of said ... | 06/26/2001 |
| 5782464 | Folding cylinder A folding cylinder for a folding apparatus of a rotary printing press having displaceable mechanisms which are connected with at least one spindle which is arranged in the folding cylinder, spaced radially from its shaft and can be turned by an adjustment... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5259604 | Cross-folding apparatus for printed webs, particularly to obtain one-third/two-third folds superimposed To cross-fold a moving web into one-third lengths, a cutter blade cylinder (1, 26) is at a cutting position with a counter cylinder (4, 28), which carries needles and may also carry cutting knives. The cutting knives are arranged to cut the web into a for... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5048810 | Apparatus for adjusting an anglebar or a compensator roller in a folder of a printing press An anglebar and/or a compensator roller in a folder of a printing press is adjustable. A motor has an output shaft operatively connected with the anglebar and/or the compensator roller to, when driven, adjust the position of the anglebar and/or the compen... | 09/17/1991 |
| 4147337 | Sheet transfer apparatus A sheet transfer apparatus which can vary the effective spacing between the cutting cylinder and the transfer cylinder and between the transfer cylinder and the folding blade cylinder in a folding cylinder group for a rotary web-fed printing press is disc... | 04/03/1979 |
| 4014535 | Continuous sheet collating method and apparatus A continuous sheet collating system is disclosed for printed texts wherein a continuous web of printed sheet-like material is continuously fed to a continuously, uninterrupted, collating drum. The web is wrapped upon the rotating drum a number of times eq... | 03/29/1977 |