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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7197971 | Device for trimming sheet material A sheet material trimming apparatus and method are described which are suitable for use in a booklet making system. An exemplary apparatus includes at least one cutter for trimming a first and a second edge of a sheet material in a first and a second direction, and ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7175382 | Device and method for separating packs of laminar products from one another The device comprises a guide (23) defining a closed for a plurality of separator fingers (15). In the vicinity of the end of the advance stretch of the guide is set a separating member (101) provided with a movement of insertion and extraction (... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7100484 | Apparatus for automatically trimming and cutting images on sheets of paper and other graphic and photographic supports Apparatus for automatically trimming and cutting images on support sheets, which comprises two cutting devices (1, 2) arranged upstream and downstream, respectively, a conveying device (3) which is suitable for conveying to the second cutting device ( | 09/05/2006 |
| 6500293 | Contact adhesive patterns for sheet stock precluding adhesion of facing sheets in storage The invention includes methods and products which use contact adhesives to secure separate sheets of multiple ply documents to form finished documents, such as integrated letters and envelopes, billing statements, invoices, etc. Sheet material for product... | 12/31/2002 |
| 5758872 | Bundling and strapping devices and methods A device and method for forming stacks of planar elements, particularly newspapers, wherein the elements are serially discharged onto a receiver, compressed to eliminate entrapped air, and bound with fusible tape. The stacks are bound by providing tape wh... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5397106 | Cutting and collating sheets of paper A machine for "bleed cutting" a sheet (1) into a plurality of pieces (2) and collating them by the method described and claimed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,405,121 has upper and lower pairs of slitting rollers in both the first series (12) and the second series (1... | 03/14/1995 |
| 5222720 | Hopper with third lifter Magazine signatures which are manually loaded as a stack into a product hopper are stripped therefrom by conveyor belts and are conveyed as a running shingle having a relatively large setback and a relatively thin vertical cross-section. To assist in esta... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5088711 | Machine for transporting and loading signatures Magazine signatures which are manually loaded as a stack into a product hopper are stripped therefrom and are conveyed as a rough and non-uniform shingle to an accumulating hopper while being elevated from a low level to a substantially higher level. The ... | 02/18/1992 |
| 4938465 | Method and device for separating a predetermined number of flat objects, such as sheets of paper Downstream of a paper leaf stacking machine, e.g. a paper napkin folder, there is a device comprising supports on each of which is mounted at least one leaf separating finger. Each support is kept, by a stop, in a fixed position corresponding to that in w... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4917365 | Method and apparatus for dividing a moving stack of flexible workpieces into partial stacks comprising a predetermined number of workpieces There is provided a method and apparatus for dividing a moving stack of flexible workpieces, such as paper hand towels, face towels and the like, which are interfolded with one another in a zigzag manner, into partial stacks comprised of predetermined num... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4772003 | Apparatus for stacking signatures or the like An apparatus for stacking signatures or the like includes a guide plate having a predetermined angle of inclination and a conveyor for successively loading signatures onto the upper end of the guide plate from the upper side of the latter. The foremost en... | 09/20/1988 |
| 4747591 | Apparatus for separating folded perforated reel papers The apparatus for separating folded and perforated or creased endless or reel papers, which form an uninterrupted stack, comprises a conveyor belt 9 conveying the same to a separating station, in order to permit an automatic separation of the stack into i... | 05/31/1988 |
| 4660818 | Unstrapping apparatus Unstrapping apparatus for removing a strap (2) from a pack of sheets (1) initially contained in the strap is described. The apparatus comprises an input station including a blade (31) for cutting the strap (2) and a hook (59) for engaging the cut strap an... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4188881 | Augmenting duplicator production The description deals with a process of duplicating page order sheets designed to greatly augment the output of existing office duplicators by preparing masters each of which carries the image of two pages of data. The master is placed on the cylinder wit... | 02/19/1980 |
