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Pillow with retractable umbrella
A pillow assembly having a supporting assembly and a retractable umbrella assembly that is easily transportable and allows a user to support his/her head while covering their face from sunlight.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7314156 | Electric stapler Two slide bases (106) synchronizingly traveled on linear guides (105) arranged upwardly and downwardly in parallel with each other are rotatably attached with a clincher unit (107) and a driver unit (104) and provided with a click stop me... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7311237 | Electric stapler Two slide bases (106) synchronizingly traveled on linear guides (105) arranged upwardly and downwardly in parallel with each other are rotatably attached with a clincher unit (107) and a driver unit (104) and provided with a click stop me... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7222771 | Electric stapler Two slide bases (106) synchronizingly traveled on linear guides (105) arranged upwardly and downwardly in parallel with each other are rotatably attached with a clincher unit (107) and a driver unit (104) and provided with a click stop me... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7222766 | Electric stapler Two slide bases (106) synchronizingly traveled on linear guides (105) arranged upwardly and downwardly in parallel with each other are rotatably attached with a clincher unit (107) and a driver unit (104) and provided with a click stop me... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7222769 | Electric stapler Two slide bases (106) synchronizingly traveled on linear guides (105) arranged upwardly and downwardly in parallel with each other are rotatably attached with a clincher unit (107) and a driver unit (104) and provided with a click stop me... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7222770 | Electric stapler Two slide bases (106) synchronizingly traveled on linear guides (105) arranged upwardly and downwardly in parallel with each other are rotatably attached with a clincher unit (107) and a driver unit (104) and provided with a click stop me... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7210608 | Electric stapler Two slide bases (106) synchronizingly traveled on linear guides (105) arranged upwardly and downwardly in parallel with each other are rotatably attached with a clincher unit (107) and a driver unit (104) and provided with a click stop me... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7191928 | Electric stapler Two slide bases (106) synchronizingly traveled on linear guides (105) arranged upwardly and downwardly in parallel with each other are rotatably attached with a clincher unit (107) and a driver unit (104) and provided with a click stop me... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7111378 | Fastener closing Apparatus for closing a fastener includes a first member adapted to engage and bend a fastener toward a closed position, a second member defining a recessed fastener guide adapted to engage and bend the fastener toward the closed position, the recessed fastener guid... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7083073 | Electric stapler Two slide bases (106) synchronizingly traveled on linear guides (105) arranged in parallel with each other are rotatably attached with a clincher unit (103) and a driver unit (104) and provided with a click stop mechanism for fixing the c... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7080767 | Moving mechanism for motor-driven staplers A poisoning groove 16 is formed at a slide guide shaft 4, and a lever 15 of a driver unit 1 is engaged with the positioning groove to position the driver unit. A clincher unit is positioned by engaging a positioning pin 10 of a cli... | 07/25/2006 |
| 6971217 | Method and device for controlling a wrapping machine for printed products A method for controlling a wrapping machine for printed products that includes determining the size of an incoming gap in a printed product stream and controlling a speed of the wrapping machine as a function of the size of the incoming gap. The controlling step inc... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6947700 | Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus Since a fluorine treatment or the like is applied on a surface of an intermediate transfer belt (10), and thus, the surface bears water repelling property, when fixer (92) is supplied from a fixing apparatus (90) to surface parts of the intermed... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6494661 | Device and method for providing a cover for a book A method for covering a book includes delivering a book into a pocket, delivering an inverted cover for the book into the pocket, the cover having a first side and a second side, the first side of the cover contacting a side of the book in the pocket, and... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6302388 | Apparatus and method for securing an item to a cover of printed material The present invention concerns an apparatus and a method for securing an item to a cover of printed material. According to one aspect of the present invention, the item is displayed in such a manner so as to enable the item to be viewed through the cover ... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6267366 | Apparatus and method of delivering signatures to a binding line An apparatus and method for delivering signatures to a binding line, the apparatus and method preferably comprising a printer feeder apparatus and method for providing personalized information in a variety of locations upon a selected one of a plurality o... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6241233 | Stack forming and removing apparatus with undersheet placement An apparatus for stacking flat printed products, wherein a stack (22) is ejected from a stacking well (12) by means of an ejector (30), and a cover sheet (28) is pulled into the stacking well (12) as the ejector ejects the previously formed stack. The nex... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6089559 | Method and device for separably depositing sheets in a stack The device is disposed above an office machine stacking tray and stores circular divider films in a magazine. The divider films are selectively output singly from the magazine and deposited between successive sheet groups in the stacking tray to separate ... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6070023 | Image forming apparatus with back sheet portion determination for a booklet surface sheet When a surface sheet manufacture mode is selected, a CPU calculates a size of a back sheet portion of a surface sheet, on the basis of a sheet thickness detected by a sheet thickness detect portion, a consumed toner amount calculated by an estimate circui... | 05/30/2000 |
| 5988620 | Apparatus and method for personalizing printed materials An apparatus and method for attaching a cover to a signature. The apparatus includes a cover applicator for securing covers to signatures, a signature supplier positioned to provide at least one signature to the cover applicator, a cover feeder positioned... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5662318 | Stapler and sheet-binding system using the same A stapler capable of stapling one or more stapling portions of a sheaf of sheets to be bound with only one movable staple driver in a corner binding manner, one-side binding manner or doublespread binding manner regardless of the width and length of the s... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5634633 | Apparatus and method for securing an item to printed material An apparatus for attaching an item to printed material, including a cover applicator for securing covers to signatures, a signature supplier positioned to provide at least one signature to the cover applicator, and a cover feeder positioned to feed covers... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5316425 | Apparatus for applying covers to signatures An apparatus for applying covers to books of signatures transported along a binding line includes cover feeders for feeding at least two covers upon a conveyor line and a fastening arrangement for joining the covers in substantially superimposed registrat... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5263698 | Binding device for an image forming apparatus with cover sheet A binding device associated with an image forming apparatus for binding a stack of recording sheets each carrying an image formed by the image forming apparatus. After a cover sheet at least twice as large in size as the recording sheets has been laid on ... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5257081 | Image forming drive having two cover modes and a stapler for stapling a group of content pages and a cover page A copying apparatus having a cover page function, folding function, and binding function. A cover paper twice as large as the content page originals is used for the cover sheet. The cover page copy paper is folded in two and the copy paper for the content... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5177548 | Image recording apparatus with provision for blank binding space An image recording apparatus includes an input key for inputting a binding mode for binding a plurality of recording sheets; an image forming until for forming an image on the recording sheet, the image forming unit forming the image while providing a pre... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5140380 | Image forming apparatus with book binding mechanism An image forming apparatus has a book binding mechanism for performing a book bind operation using front sheets of a plurality of sizes which can bind a bundle of sheet members recorded by said image forming apparatus, and have limitations on the numbers ... | 08/18/1992 |
| 5106069 | Apparatus for positioning covers on stacks of superimposed sheets Apparatus for positioning covers on top of stacks of paper sheets has a transporting unit which advances a series of successive stacks along a first horizontal path and discrete covers along a second horizontal path above and adjacent the first path. The ... | 04/21/1992 |
| 4989852 | Electronic publishing system Mechanism for assembling a document from a plurality of predetermined sheets having a central controller, with a plurality of modules. The sheets are moved past each of said modules. One of said modules is a feed module which feeds the sheets. The feeder ... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4974824 | Method of distributing a newspaper with inserts A method of distributing newspapers includes collating newspaper inserts into separate stacks. The stacks of collated newspaper inserts are wrapped to provide separate wrapped packages. Newspaper news sections are collated into separate groups. The groups... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4710256 | Apparatus for attaching flap-over covers to stacks of paper sheets or the like Adhesive coated front edge faces of successive stacks of paper sheets are bonded to downwardly folded marginal portions of flap-over covers at an aligning station which receives stacks from a first source along a first path wherein the stacks are caused t... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4626156 | Finishing apparatus with cover inserter A finishing apparatus is adapted to receive sheets that are to be formed into booklets from a copier/duplicator or other reproduction apparatus. The sheets are fed along a sheet transport in the finishing apparatus to an assembly station where they are jo... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4615517 | Apparatus for placing flat cover elements, preferably cover sheets, on stacks of flat articles, preferably printed products The cover sheet which is to be placed, is brought into a waiting position above a predetermined conveying path of the stacks of flat articles. The cover sheet is displaced from this waiting position onto one stack by means of a placing element arranged at... | 10/07/1986 |
| 4602775 | Modular cover inserter unit A modular cover inserter unit is located between a copier/duplicator which produces sets of copy sheets and a finisher which forms booklets from the sets of copy sheets. The cover inserter unit includes a sheet transport that advances sheets from the copi... | 07/29/1986 |
| 4565130 | Apparatus for producing stacks of printed products provided with a cover sheet A stacking device having at least two stacking wells supplied from above is arranged subsequent to a delivery conveyor for printed products. A deposition apparatus for depositing one cover sheet on each completed stack is also provided. In order not to ha... | 01/21/1986 |
| 4439865 | Copier sorter with memory and counter controlled inlet gate for manually inserted covers or partition sheets A sorter for a copy machine is equipped with a portion adapted to receive sheets inserted manually for use as covers or partitions of the copies in the sorter. The sorter may be formed of one or more sorter portions arranged serially and is provided with ... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4266761 | Apparatus for placing terminal sheets or the like on to layers of sheets An apparatus is provided for placing end sheets or the like under a stack of sheets. The apparatus has a conveying arrangement for conveying the stacked layers of sheets and a feed arrangement for the end sheets. The feed arrangement is designed to place ... | 05/12/1981 |
| 3979112 | Sheet stacking and interleaving apparatus Apparatus for stacking pre-cut sheets and interleaving heavier pieces of material to form backs and or covers for groups of sheets wherein said sheets are transported through a path for deposition on a stack. At the same time cards and/or covers are fed i... | 09/07/1976 |
