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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7628391 | Taped bag feeder A taped bag feeder having a housing with a bag guide positioned thereon, a drive mechanism, a first reel and second reel for supplying an assembly of imbricated taped bags to a packaging operation. The assembly of imbricated taped bags having a pair of tape strands ... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7324455 | Transfer of error-analysis and statistical data in a fibre channel input/output system A computer Input/Output system having a fabric, a control unit (CU) and a host computer including a channel, the channel having a channel port connected by a first link to a channel neighbor port of the fabric, and the control unit having a CU port connected by a se... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7290764 | Modular guide apparatus for tab stock received in a feeder tray A tab guide is provided for aligning tab stock in a paper tray of a printer having a trail edge guide including a substantially planar sheet-engaging face and a stack height finger extending from the sheet engaging face in a process direction for engaging a top surf... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7288059 | Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus equipped with the same A sheet processing apparatus includes a processing tray on which sheets are stacked in a bundle form, an intermediate portion stapler which staples the intermediate portion of the sheet bundle stacked on the processing tray, a sheet bundle conveying member which con... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7225731 | Sheet punching and embossing machine A sheet punching and embossing machine includes a device for stripping waste from a punched and embossed sheet at a stripping station, the device having a stripping plate for supporting the sheet. Also included are gripper carriages fixed to revolving chains, for gr... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7157130 | Offset diecut stack A stack of alternating sheets includes repeating diecuts offset among the sheets. The sheets may be made from a continuous web using a die to cut the repeating diecuts along the running axis of the web. Individual sheets are cut from the web and stacked with the die... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7152856 | Sheet processing apparatus and image processing apparatus The present invention relates to a sheet processor apparatus comprising: a sheet stack portion on which a sheet is stacked; a sheet conveyance path for conveying a sheet stacked on the sheet stack portion; a sheet conveyor for conveying to the sheet conveyance path ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7090214 | Feeding mechanism True zero-clearance cutting on a commercial scale is provided via a cutting area including a sacrifice material that is relatively softer than the cutter. One example is a cutting system which is capable of cutting a material such as, for example, tape or paper, int... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7014187 | Vacuum plenum system for facilitating the high-speed conveyance of mail pieces A new and improved article or mail-piece conveyor system has a vacuum plenum system integrally incorporated therein which effectively withdraws ambient air ahead or downstream of the oncoming conveyed articles or mail pieces such that the oncoming conveyed articles ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6752559 | Indexing system package and display system A packaged stack of dividers comprising a container including front and back covers, at least two dividers oriented in stacked relation to each other and positioned in the container between the front and back covers, and an alignment member coupled to the stacked di... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6638002 | Pallet pin sheet fanner The invention is a magnet for facilitating separation of individual sheets from a stack of ferro-magnetic sheets; the invention is in the form of an elongate housing containing an elongate array of magnets which may be selectively positioned in relation t... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6243908 | Track clearance card and methods of making and using the same A card is provided for cleaning a document track of a document handling system, and methods for making and using the same. The card includes a planar body formed of a resilient material, such as a fibrous or polymeric material. The body includes a plurali... | 06/12/2001 |
| 5918197 | Monitor for collecting data on consumer consumption of disposable sheet products A monitor for collecting data on consumer consumption of disposable sheet products is disclosed. The monitor comprises a working surface capable of supporting a stack of sheets thereon, a weight sensor, and a recorder. The stack of sheets comprises a plur... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5826870 | Divider sheet for stacked products and method of supplying planar articles A planar article or sheet, such as a divider sheet for stacked products, and the method of supplying substantially planar articles from a supply magazine to an article transfer device, which then transfers the article to a desired location for further pro... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5713567 | Method and apparatus for feeding irregular sheets into a printer or copier A paperboard sheet has a longitudinal scoreline defining a narrow flap portion on one side thereof and a body potion on the other side. The sheet is packaged flat together with a set of tabbed dividers thereby protecting the dividers. With the sheet and d... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5618033 | Package assembly including an insert guide tray for printers A paperboard sheet has a longitudinal scoreline defining a narrow flap portion on one side thereof and a body portion on the other side. The sheet is packaged flat together with a set of tabbed dividers thereby protecting the dividers. With the sheet and ... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5447299 | Divider sheet for stacked products and method of supplying planar articles A planar article or sheet, such as a divider sheet for stacked products, and the method of supplying substantially planar articles from a supply magazine to an article transfer device, which then transfers the article to a desired location for further pro... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5388818 | Near vertical media receive magazine A receive magazine configured to be positioned in a generally upright, vertical orientation for passively collecting a plurality of flexible sheets of media. The top wall of the enclosure has a collection door in the top wall of a light-tight enclosure al... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5331372 | Process cartridge and image forming apparatus on which process cartridge is mountable A process cartridge mountable within an image forming apparatus, includes an image bearing member, process means acting on the image bearing member, a frame, and a first guide surface provided on the frame and adapted to guide a recording medium toward th... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5265865 | Stimulable phosphor sheet feeding and storing mechanism and stimulable phosphor sheet cassette A stimulable phosphor sheet cassette has a light-tight casing which has an opening through which a stimulable phosphor sheet can be got in and out of the casing by moving the stimulable phosphor sheet in a direction parallel to the surface thereof and a l... | 11/30/1993 |
| 5238234 | Continuous-operation device for treatment of leather and similar materials A continuous-operation device for the treatment of a leather piece and similar materials, comprising a work station including a roller unit including a pair of rollers and through which the leather piece is moved, the work station including an inlet side ... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5178381 | Processing flexible sheet workpieces An apparatus for processing a flexible sheet workpiece is disclosed. The apparatus includes workstations arranged in at least two parallel series. Each workstation is adapted to carry out at least one operation on the workpiece, which can then be transfer... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5172905 | Film receive magazine for a laser imager A receive magazine for collecting and transporting sheets of exposed photographic media. The receive magazine includes an elongated, light-tight enclosure having front and back walls, top and bottom walls, and first and second end walls. Sheets of media a... | 12/22/1992 |
| 5040776 | Automatically operating system for taking up and discharging cloth articles or portions thereof from ironing apparatus A system for taking up and discharging ironed cloth articles from ironing apparatus comprises a column mounted on a base and supporting an articulated rotary arm at one end of which there is mounted a ball member for engaging an ironed cloth article and r... | 08/20/1991 |
| 5039078 | Separating and feeding garment parts Apparatus for the seriatim separation and feeding of garment parts from a shingled stack of the parts to a predetermined destination. Comprising the apparatus is a movable hold down mechanism for engaging the trailing edge of the second part in the stack ... | 08/13/1991 |
| 4984960 | Vacuum track and pallets An apparatus having a vacuum track, and a vacuum pallet for use therewith. The apparatus comprises a vacuum duct having a single vacuum pump and a plurality of ports which individually open when said vacuum pallet passes thereover. The pallet has a shoe w... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4932644 | Sheet feeding process The present invention provides a process for feeding transparency sheets having a soft coating thereon from a tray of such sheets. The transparency sheets are interleaved with plain paper separator sheets in a tray so that at the front end of the tray, th... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4766810 | Sheet feeder for printing bound sheets A sheet feeder for use with an offset printing device that is capable of feeding sheets that are bound together along a common edge is disclosed herein. The sheet feeder generally comprises a stack holder for holding a stack of bound sheets along their co... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4688781 | Separating and feeding fabric parts Stacked fabric parts are separated and fed seriatim by apparatus having an endless conveyor which feeds the stack into position for separating the uppermost part from the stack. A mechanism having a knife edge bar or opposed fabric engaging needles is low... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4625953 | Sheet separating device A sheet separating device for separating flexible disc-shaped sheet materials forming a stack. The sheet materials such as floppy discs have holes in the center thereof in register with each other to define a single hole in the stack. The sheet separating... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4598903 | Board for feeding single sheet paper A board for feeding a single sheet of paper including holes for paper-feeding which are to be engaged by the sprocket for a paper-feeder of a printer formed at specified intervals on both sides thereof and a part for gripping the rear end of the single sh... | 07/08/1986 |
| 4567081 | Separator sheets for collation with a stack of transparencies A separator for separating adjacent transparencies in a stack of transparencies, where the separator is characterized by enhanced permeability due either to the intrinsic material from which it is made, or due to a plurality of apertures, holes, perforati... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4555213 | Daylight film loading method and apparatus A film package containing a stack of notched films in a light-tight envelope is held vertically in a light-tight loading chamber by a clamp member engaging with the notches of the films. The lower end of the envelope is cut, and the envelope is moved vert... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4465415 | Magnetic spreading device for a sheet metal stack of individual magnetizable laminations with a central hole For lifting the topmost, spread apart, magnetizable individual lamination with a central hole off a lamination stack stored without a mandrel and/or for transporting at least substacks of the lamination stack to a different location, a centering mandrel i... | 08/14/1984 |
| 4371159 | Handling installation for bringing a piece to a receiving station in a predetermined position A handling device and installation for bringing to a second station, in a predetermined and fixed orientation and position, a piece, and in particular a supple piece in sheet form such as a fabric, situated in a first station in an approximative position.... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4364549 | Apparatus for feeding cardboard blanks or the like to a magazine Apparatus for supplying preselected numbers of superimposed prefabricated cardboard blanks of the type having alternating larger and smaller marginal flaps from an auxiliary magazine into the main magazine of a packing machine has a frame which carries th... | 12/21/1982 |
| 4285509 | Feeder mechanism A feeder mechanism specially adapted for use in conjunction with plastic open-ended sleeve type article carriers includes a hopper (8) in which collapsed transversely folded sleeves (S) are stacked, the ends of the sleeves being folded upwardly along a tr... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4273321 | Apparatus for feeding conductor plates into a conductor plate tester Conductor plates are fed to a conductor plate tester from a stack by a reciprocating feeder which removes the lowermost plate only of the stack and propels it forwardly to a transport path. The transport path is inclined downwardly toward said tester, the... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4169586 | Automatic device for stacking circular workpieces Apparatus for stacking stackable workpieces in a plurality of side-by-side vertical columns. The apparatus includes a stacking head transversely movable on a frame, and a conveyor attached to the head for directing individual workpieces to the head. The h... | 10/02/1979 |
| 4135710 | Apparatus for adjusting the slope of side flaps of stacked cardboard blanks The device comprises at least one toothed roller supported by a rocking lever, and adapted to contact the outer edges of the side flaps of the blanks. Each toothed roller is mounted on a pin by a conventional free wheel device so as to exert a sliding fri... | 01/23/1979 |
