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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6421523 | Image forming apparatus capable of shift stacking discharged sheet bundle An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device for forming an image on a sheet, a tray for stacking a sheet on which the image is formed by the image forming device, a shifting device for shifting the sheet for each copy to stack the sheet on... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6063229 | Method of article assembly formation A method of applying repositionable pressure-sensitive adhesive sheets to moving articles includes aligning a plurality of articles for sequential movement through a sheet application station. Each article has at least two different sheet landing areas de... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6016747 | Printing press coupler accumulator A sheet accumulator for advancing successive sheets between first and second color printing presses comprising an accumulator sheet conveyor for advancing sheets from one press to the other press, a sheet lifter at the conveyor to lift a first sheet and t... | 01/25/2000 |
| 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 |
| 5833232 | Apparatus for accumulating and directionally reorienting sheets An apparatus for accumulating sheets from a secondary source and changing their conveyance direction 90°. The accumulator is a group of vertically stacked bins that discharge batchwise and are loaded from the secondary source alternately by way of a dive... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5819663 | Gripper conveyor with preliminary ink jet An apparatus for providing printed products to a gatherer, including a product supplier for feeding printed products, a product separator positioned to receive printed products from the product supplier and to separate the printed products into a separate... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5810346 | Paper handling system A paper handling system including a gathering path and a plurality of paper handling units. The (114 to 138), said gathering path is defined by a plurality of essentially corresponding modules (102, 200), each of said modules (102, 200) being provided wit... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5286016 | Apparatus and method for inserting sheets into lapstream in a direction opposite to conveying direction An apparatus for inserting chipboard or cardboard spacers within a lapstream of paper sheets exiting a press on a lapstream conveyor includes a chipboard ejector for firing chipboards toward the lapstream conveyor in a direction which is opposite that of ... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5209809 | Detacher to folder or pressure sealer shingle conveyor A distinct conveyor assembly allows a business form sealer--such as a pressure sealer--to operate with forms that have been detached from a continuous supply. Individual forms are detached from the continuous supply while being conveyed in a first directi... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5165674 | Folded sheet product opening and transfer system, and method of opening folded sheet products The folded products are not completely creased across their width in a folding apparatus but, rather, leaving an open loop or bulge or end portion (101). A separating cylinder (100) includes gripper or holding elements (38-41) located spirally about the c... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5009408 | Continuous feed board inserter A board inserter for use with a conveyor belt system provides for the automatic insertion of paper boards, or like materials, into a continuous stream of shingled paper sheets moving along the conveyor belt system. The boards are inserted into the shingle... | 04/23/1991 |
| 4989853 | Apparatus for offsetting sheets An apparatus which delivers to an operator offset batches of sheets reproduced from at least one set of documents. The operator selects the number of sheets or sets of sheets successive batches to be offset from one another. In this way, the number of cop... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4941650 | Vacuum counter for stacked signatures An apparatus for forming an indicium in a stream of moving signatures, consisting of a signature displaced laterally from the stream and corresponding to a predetermined count of signatures, comprises an idler roller mechanism connected with a rotatable i... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4898373 | High speed signature manipulating apparatus A quarter folder machine for accepting half fold signatures and converting them into quarter signatures. The machine receives half signatures in an incoming shingle running at relatively low velocity, strips and accelerates the signatures to travel seriat... | 02/06/1990 |
| 4809964 | Apparatus and method for converting bundled signatures to a shingled stream Bundled signatures are placed on a first set of conveyor belts which move the signature bundle to a shingling station. A pair of side belts at the shingling station are spaced so that the signatures are individualy bowed forwardly upon encountering the be... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4747817 | High speed signature manipulating apparatus A quarter folder machine for accepting half fold signatures and converting them into quarter signatures. The machine receives half signatures in an incoming shingle running at relatively low velocity, strips and accelerates the signatures to travel seriat... | 05/31/1988 |
| 4730820 | Comb file for flake/scale feeding of printed products The apparatus for filing or ordering a scale flow of folded, flat printed products from a rotary printing press has sliding teeth formed into a filing comb arranged on both side of the scale flow and fixed to tooth supports and with, in each case, at leas... | 03/15/1988 |
| 4479643 | Method and apparatus for transferring newspapers from pockets to an overlapped stream Bottom opening pockets in a newspaper stuffing machine sequentially move newspapers to a transfer station at a first speed with closed edge portions of the newspapers downward and major sides of the newspapers on which headlines are printed facing in the ... | 10/30/1984 |
| 4318539 | Apparatus for and method of collating sorting and stacking sheets concurrently An apparatus for and a novel method of collating, sorting and stacking sheets, concurrently termed "offset collation", are disclosed. The first sheets of sets to be collated, numbering up to the desired number of sets in a job, are transported from an ent... | 03/09/1982 |
| 4295642 | Roll fed shingling machine with predetermined numbering A unitary shingling apparatus prepares uniformly shingled sets of forms from a continuous, preprinted roll. The apparatus numbers the individual forms in groups of predetermined count, wherein the forms in each group receive identical numbers. Each group ... | 10/20/1981 |
| 4270743 | Forward numbering or underlap sheet delivery A plurality of consecutively numbered sheets or parcels of paper sheets such as, by way of example, snapout forms or the like are consecutively deposited onto the upper reach of a conveyor whereby the leading edge of each subsequent form is inserted benea... | 06/02/1981 |
| 4076231 | Apparatus for trimming signatures An apparatus for use in trimming the edges of folded signatures produced in web-fed rotary printing presses is disclosed. The signatures, which may exit from the printing press folder in an overlapping array, are supported from below by a conveyor belt or... | 02/28/1978 |
