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Dining Table Having Integral Dishwasher
A space-saving dishwasher, which may be installed within a counter top or table, having a dish-carrying rack that is vertically shiftable through the open top of the dishwasher for facilitating loading and unloading of the dishes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7255221 | Transport device in a card embossing system A device is constructed for processing or customizing cards or flattened portable objects, for example memory cards, smart card, magnetic strip card, or badge. The device is characterized in that it comprises a flexible or rigid mobile transport structure (1)... | 08/14/2007 |
| 6991225 | Sheet process device once stacking received sheets on first stack means and then transferring them to second stack means The present invention provides a sheet process device capable of performing a sheaf discharge operation to discharge sheaves of sheets stacked on a process tray to a stack tray, without discharging a next sheet to the process tray during the sheaf discharge operatio... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6547231 | Apparatus for placing inserts of different thicknesses and widths into newspaper jackets A newspaper inserting machine for inserting supplements or inserts into signatures or newspaper jackets improves upon conventional inserting machines by modifying the conventional inserting machines existing belt gripping mechanisms for gripping the inser... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6517065 | Sheet process device once stacking received sheets on first stack means and then transferring them to second stack means The present invention provides a sheet process device capable of performing a sheaf discharge operation to discharge sheaves of sheets stacked on a process tray to a stack tray, without discharging a next sheet to the process tray during the sheaf dischar... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6203000 | Escrow storage device A currency note storage device (10) for an ATM (50) comprises an endless rubber belt (12) carrying a multiplicity of outwardly-projecting flaps (22), the edges of the flaps attached to the belt being contiguous; the belt (12) runs around a pair of rollers... | 03/20/2001 |
| 5979888 | Lapped stream feeding adaption for sheet material articles Sheet-like material articles are gathered in gathering pockets which move along a path in a horizontal direction. The sheet-like material articles are conveyed in a shingled stream adjacent the path. On each of the gathering pockets a deflector is actuata... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5662319 | Apparatus for processing printed products A conveying device has pocket-like receiving parts that are moved along a rotary path. The receiving parts are arranged one behind the other and transversely with respect to the rotary path. Printed products are introduced into the receiving parts by a fe... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5562278 | Apparatus for processing printed products Printed products are fed, from feeding sections, to the processing drum and deposited in a straddling manner on the wall elements or on printed products which have already been deposited thereon. As the processing drum revolves, the printed products are p... | 10/08/1996 |
| 4736936 | Hanky delivery system A hanky delivery system including a folding mechanism slotted star wheel and collector/divider of the movable type wherein the collector divider is a chain loop having an upper turning radius positioned within the periphery of the slotted wheel and sized ... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4564185 | Copying apparatus with finisher having stapler and adhesive binder stations A copying machine/finisher system is disclosed as having a rotary sorter arranged to receive a stream of copy sheets produced by a processor in conjunction with an automatic document handling apparatus of the type which produces multiple copies of a docum... | 01/14/1986 |
| 4473219 | Gatherer with binding mechanism for papers discharged from a bin drum A gatherer comprises a generally cylindrical bin drum having circumferentially thereon a plurality of inclined shelves spaced apart each other for receiving papers. The gatherer further comprises a paper-size changing body and a switching means for the ch... | 09/25/1984 |
| 4168057 | Rotary collator with sheet clamp actuator A rotary collator having a rotatable drum with a plurality of radially extending partitions or bins in which sheets to be collated are held by a sheet clamp mounted in each bin. The sheet clamp for each bin has a solenoid-based activating device which rel... | 09/18/1979 |
| 4145038 | Rotary drum collator-sorter A sheet handling machine having the dual capability of either collating or sorting sheet material into individual booklets or collations. The machine has a plurality of sheet receiving bins arranged within a rotary drum operatively associated with infeed ... | 03/20/1979 |
| 4099810 | Upright document carousel Apparatus for storing documents includes a cylindrical housing and, in the housing, an upright carousel having a number of radially disposed pockets. The housing has a horizontally and radially extending opening on a vertical wall and a horizontal opening... | 07/11/1978 |
| 4003566 | Rotary collator system having a cycle/stop operational mode A collator system is disclosed, which allows a collator to operate in either one of two distinct modes: (a) RUN/REJECT; or (b) CYCLE/STOP. Each of the above modes of operation has a unique way of handling sheet feeding malfunctions. The RUN/REJECT mode al... | 01/18/1977 |
| 4003565 | Disengaging apparatus for a collator A collator system is disclosed, which allows a collator to operate in either one of two distinct modes: (a) RUN/REJECT; or (b) CYCLE/STOP. Each of the above modes of operation has a unique way of handling sheet feeding malfunctions. The RUN/REJECT mode al... | 01/18/1977 |
| 4000889 | Cam-operated phasing mechanism for a collator A cam operated phasing mechanism for a rotary drum collator is described. The rotary drum collator comprises a rotatably mounted drum having pockets for holding sheet material, and an adjacently rotatably mounted withdrawing mechanism for withdrawing shee... | 01/04/1977 |
| 4000890 | Paper thickness adjustment device for a collator In a rotary drum collator, apparatus is described for removing sheet material from pockets in a collating drum. As the drum rotates, adjacent rotating sheet withdrawing arms sweep into pockets of the drum to frictionally remove the sheets. The rotating ar... | 01/04/1977 |
| 3970297 | Sheet withdrawing mechanism and its combination with a collator A sheet withdrawing mechanism is disclosed for a collator having a plurality of spaced moving shelves or partitions forming pockets. Each partition or pocket receives a pile of sheets and as each pocket passes sheet withdrawing position, rotating spiders,... | 07/20/1976 |
