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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7862030 | Recording medium conveying device, image forming apparatus and cartridge A first guide member includes a concave-shaped guide surface. A recording medium such as a sheet fed by register rollers takes a curved position while being fed in a sheet feeding direction such that the leading edge of the sheet slides on the guide surface. A space... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7506866 | Recording medium conveying device, image forming apparatus and cartridge A first guide member includes a concave-shaped guide surface. A recording medium such as a sheet fed by register rollers takes a curved position while being fed in a sheet feeding direction such that the leading edge of the sheet slides on the guide surface. A space... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7500664 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a medium supply device having a lift plate and a lift mechanism positioning the lift plate The image forming apparatus also has a pickup roller a feeding device including a feeder member feeding each medium supplied from the suppl... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7300047 | Multi-layer sheet feeder A sheet feed mechanism having a multi-layer structure. The multi-layer structure has a wear layer adapted to contact a sheet during sheet feeding and a replacement indicator layer adjacent the wear layer. The replacement indicator layer is adapted to indicate a wear... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7275633 | Device for changing the direction of conveyance of flat postal items and the position of the postal items relative to their direction of conveyance A device for changing a direction of conveyance of flat postal items and a position of the postal items relative to their direction of conveyance includes a driven carousel tray to which one or more gripper arms whose lengths are modifiable in a controlled manner ar... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7219888 | Multi-pass deskew method and apparatus A method for aligning print media on a feedpath includes the steps of: aligning a sheet of print media using a deskew mechanism; measuring the skew of the sheet after it has been aligned; and comparing the measured skew with a specified skew, and if the measured val... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7151621 | Image reading apparatus An image reading apparatus which enables the area occupied by the apparatus to be made small and can stably transport even a thick sheet having stiffness. A sheet P contained in an inclined sheet containing portion 3 is transported to image reading portions | 12/19/2006 |
| 7121546 | Speed mode for printer media transport A speed mode for a printer (1) which has a pivotally mounted autocompensating system (19) mounted at an intermediate position in paper guide (17). That system (19) is driven by a motor (40) through a slip drive (70, 72, 74).... | 10/17/2006 |
| 6969065 | Sheet transfer apparatus and sheet supply apparatus A sheet transport apparatus includes the first transport rollers, the second transport rollers arranged at downstream of the first transport rollers to receive a sheet transported from the first transport rollers, a spacing device for setting the first transport rol... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6776406 | Feeder and separator for separating and moving sheets from a stack of sheets A feeder/separator apparatus for separating and moving sheets from a stack of sheets is described. The feeder/separator includes an input area for positioning the stack of sheets; a first and second series of rollers for jointly feeding a sheet on the bottom of the ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6644187 | Printer and sheet conveying device therefor A printer of the present invention includes a chain-delivery type of sheet conveying device arranged in an image transfer region that adjoins image transfer drums. The sheet conveying device includes a pair of drive pulleys, a pair of driven pulleys, a pa... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6641132 | Sheet feeding device, sheet conveying device, image scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet feeding device of the present invention includes a feeding mechanism including a belt and a reverse roller, and circular collars or similar spacing members adjoining the belt for spacing the reverse roller and belt. When a single sheet is conveyed... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6619650 | Device for feeding printed products to a conveying channel A device is used to insert and/or deposit printed products into a conveying channel. The printed products are conveyed in the conveying channel with of carriers of a conveying element. An acceleration apparatus pre-accelerates the printed products in conv... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6439564 | Document dispensing apparatus An arrangement for feeding documents piecemeal from a document bundle (9) comprises a banknote separator (200) which includes two mutually biased rollers (4,6) that are driven by a drive motor (1) that also drives a dispensing roller (3) which functions t... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6340156 | Sheet-transporting device and image-forming apparatus A structure including a transporting roller for transporting sheets; and a curling roller for transporting the sheets at a location downstream from the transporting roller in a sheet-transporting direction, the driving torque of the curling roller being l... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6331001 | Sheet feeding machine A sheet feeding machine includes a sheet feeding table which is vertically movable and capable of supporting a plurality of first recording sheets thereon, first sheet feeding device movably situated above the sheet feeding table, the first sheet feeding ... | 12/18/2001 |
| 6254079 | Sheet processing unit A taking part has a taking unit that comes in contact with the piled sheets to generate a taking force and to take the sheets one by one with the taking force. A movable lever is arranged in a side of the taking unit with respect to the piled sheets, and ... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6113091 | Automatic document feeder An automatic document feeder for use with an image forming apparatus, for conveying a document on a platen of the apparatus, includes a rotating conveyance belt for pressing the document to the platen thereby conveying the document along the platen; a pre... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6038424 | Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus provided with the same A sheet conveying apparatus has a stacking portion on which sheets are stacked, a separating unit for separating and paying away the sheets tacked on the stacking portion, a feeder for feeding the sheets downstream of the separating unit, a plurality of c... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6027110 | Sheet-feeding device A sheet-feeding device for the cyclic feeding of separated sheets from a sheet stack of a sheet feeder to a sheet processing machine or an onward conveying device is provided. The sheet-feeding device includes one or more first conveying rollers of relati... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5685533 | Signature pocket apparatus and method of make ready Pocket signature feeding machines have been provided with a double indicia scale on a pocket backplate and the scale is related to the centerline of the pocket so that the signatures may be precisely centered in the pocket when the left and right signatur... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5645273 | Sheet original supply apparatus and image forming apparatus with it The present invention provides a sheet original supply apparatus including a conveyor for conveying a sheet original at a reading portion, and a supply device arranged upstream of the conveyor and adapted to send the sheet original to the conveyor, wherei... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5362037 | Method of, and apparatus for, delivering flat articles one by one from a stack of such articles A method for separating articles, such as paper or plastics sheets or envelopes, from a stack (9), and apparatus for carrying out this method is disclosed. A feed roller (6) periodically feeds an outer article to a conveyor roller (2) opposite to which a ... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5280899 | Automatic document feeder In a primary paper feeding device, a document is conveyed from a document stock section to a pair of registration rollers by a first conveying device. The document conveyed to the registration rollers is further conveyed forward in a downstream direction ... | 01/25/1994 |
| 5253857 | Device for feeding sheets from one or two sources A device for feeding single sheets to a packaging, labelling or packeting machine, comprising a support structure provided with a table for positioning a stack of sheets to be fed, at least one pair of rotary drums arranged rigid with a drive shaft, and a... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5192066 | Device for transporting sheets in office machines A device for transporting individual sheets of a sheet-form recording medium in office machines comprises an endless circulating conveyor belt for transporting the sheets. A pressure device holds sheets positively against the conveyor belt, and has a flat... | 03/09/1993 |
| 4772005 | Sheet feeding apparatus Sheet feeding apparatus for use in a cash dispenser comprises two withdrawal systems (7,8) operated by a stepper motor (5) to withdraw sheets from respective cassettes (1,2). A transport system (17) operated by a continuously driven drive motor (16) recei... | 09/20/1988 |
| 4650175 | Microfiche feeding mechanism A sheet feeding mechanism for feeding individual sheets of material, such as for example microfiche folders, is disclosed which includes a tray mounted in a frame and having a pivoted bottom wall. A pair of sheet retaining claws are pivotally mounted on t... | 03/17/1987 |
| 4523832 | Sheet transport A sheet transport for a photocopier for reversing the direction of sheet travel has only an outer curved guide surface, and input, intermediate and output drive rolls spaced apart less than the length of a sheet. The disengageable output drive nip coopera... | 06/18/1985 |
| 4429864 | High speed carton feeder A high speed feeder for cartons being fed into a cartoner includes both mechanical and fluid flow environments for precisely delivering cartons. A preferably inclined conveyor receives cartons stacked on their edges and in a generally vertical orientation... | 02/07/1984 |
| 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 |
| 4235431 | Method and apparatus for transporting documents with preselected interdocument spacing A method and apparatus is disclosed for receiving and processing a stack of small documents, such as checks. The documents are stacked in front surface-to-back surface relationship and are singly fed from the stack automatically into a path. The advanceme... | 11/25/1980 |
| 4203585 | Document feed for a copier machine A document feed mechanism for a copier machine incorporating an automatic document feed (ADF) with a semi-automatic document feed (SADF) and enabling the SADF to interrupt the ADF. The ADF tray upon which a stack of documents to be copied is placed is sit... | 05/20/1980 |
| 4171129 | Document transport A document transport for a document scanning device has an elevator for locating a stack of documents to be fed automatically into position to be scanned. The top document is removed from the stack by a feed roller. Other documents which may become entrai... | 10/16/1979 |
| 4082595 | Pressure sensitive label applicator A compact labeling machine for applying pressure sensitive labels to mailing pieces such as magazines and envelopes is provided with a variable speed drive and is adapted to accommodate various size labels and mailing pieces at a high output rate. Positiv... | 04/04/1978 |
| 4061328 | Paper feeder A paper feeder is disclosed comprising a corner separator located on a paper tray on which a plurality of sheets are disposed in a stack and are fed one by one by means of a feed roller. The paper feeder is also provided with a second paper separator whic... | 12/06/1977 |
| 3944213 | High speed document handler Disclosed is a document handler and feeder device for performing high speed separating and transporting of documents, such as business forms. The document handling unit is equipped with friction type feed rollers and a lipped contour plate over which docu... | 03/16/1976 |
| 3944214 | High speed document handler Disclosed is a document handler and feeder device for performing high speed separating and transporting of documents, such as business forms. The document handling unit is equipped with friction type feed rollers and a lipped contour plate over which docu... | 03/16/1976 |
| 3944209 | High speed document handler Disclosed is a document handler and feeder device for performing high speed separating and transporting of documents, such as business forms. The document handling unit is equipped with friction type feed rollers and a lipped contour plate over which docu... | 03/16/1976 |
