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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7431281 | Method of separating a sheet of print media from a stack of sheets A method of separating a sheet of print media from a stack (28) of sheets, the sheets being porous, includes blowing fluid on to a top surface of a topmost sheet (28.1) of the print media on the stack (28) so that the fluid passes through at lea... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7419153 | Method and apparatus for producing bound books, magazines or brochures A method for producing bound books, magazines or brochures by gathering printed sheets into non-bound book blocks along a conveying section that is supplied by at least one sheet feeder includes separating the lowest printed sheet from a stack of printed sheets by l... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7357390 | Devices for aligning sheets and a method for aligning sheets transversal to the direction of travel of the sheets A device is provided for use in the alignment of sheets transverse to a direction of sheet travel. A sheet retaining device, which conveys the sheets, is displaceably mounted for holding the sheets against a side guide. At least two sheets are situated one above the... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7352886 | Error handling in a high throughput computer-aided detection environment A method and system for automated detection and handling of film feeding failures in a high-volume CAD environment. The method provides for batch processing a set of films including multiple film cases including the steps of providing a number count of the number of... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7303523 | Paper-folding apparatus A paper-folding apparatus includes a hopper for holding one or more sheets of paper or other similar foldable media, a discharge feed and stripper assembly, a shuttle associated with the hopper operable to transfer a sheet of paper from the hopper to the discharge f... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7258336 | Integrated vacuum slide feeder A sheet feeder assembly for acquiring and conveying a sheet comprises a plenum connectable to a vacuum source and having an opening facing the sheet to be conveyed, and a slide plate covering the opening. The slide plate has an acquisition surface facing the sheet t... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7252283 | Paper-pickup clutch of automatic paper-feeding device A paper-pickup clutch of an automatic paper-feeding device includes a clamping member and a clamping-force adjusting member and can be applied to image processors such as printers, copiers or scanners. The automatic paper-feeding device includes a shaft and a paper-... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7243916 | Apparatus for feeding sheets of media from a stack An apparatus for feeding porous sheets of media from a stack of such sheets includes a support structure for supporting the stack. A gas conduit is mounted on the support structure and has an outlet that is oriented so that, when the stack is positioned on the suppo... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7229241 | Automatic printing plate feeding system An automatic plate feeding system for loading plates of various sizes into a printing plate imaging device, which includes a plurality of trays staggered one on top of the other is provided. At least two of the trays contain plates of different sizes stacked with th... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7222845 | Printer with a picker assembly A printer includes a support structure. A printing assembly is mounted on the support structure. The printing assembly includes a feed mechanism mounted on the support structure for feeding sheets of media along a feed path. At least one printhead is mounted on the ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7220093 | Flats bundle collator The present invention relates to an apparatus for collating a plurality of separate groups or bundles of similar flats mailpieces arranged in a predetermined delivery point sequence, each mailpiece imprinted with a distinct delivery point or address indicia, to prod... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7198420 | Printer A printer 1 includes a sheet storage unit 6 in which a stack of sheets can be set, a pickup roller 12 which contacts one side of the stack of sheets set in the sheet storage unit 6, and a lid 10 which covers the other side of the s... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7175176 | Device for feeding suction air or blowing air in a sheet-processing machine A device for feeding suction air or blowing air to a sheet-retaining device displaceable relative to a machine element in a sheet-processing machine, includes a first air-feeding element connectible in terms of flow to a suction-air or blowing-air source. A second a... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7172191 | Method of feeding porous sheets of media from media stack A method of feeding porous sheets from a stack is provided in which one or more air outlet nozzles and one or more air inlet nozzles are positioned in a pick-up position proximate a first sheet of the stack, a flow of air from the outlet nozzle(s) sufficient to pene... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7168698 | Sheet sucking/removing method and sheet sucking/removing device In a sheet sucking/removing device, suction cups are controlled to a state of a first negative pressure which is a minimum pressure needed to suck and remove only one uppermost printing plate, and sucking/removing is carried out. Thereafter, the suction cups are con... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7099619 | Automatic document feeder An automatic document feeder (ADF) including a platen cover which covers a copying region, a document tray which is provided on the platen cover and on which a document fed to the copying region is stacked, a pickup assembly which includes a pickup roller that picks... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7080832 | Sheet material feeder A sheet material feeder includes a sheet material holder for holding a pile of sheet material; a sucker bar device having at least one sucker for contacting the sheet material, the sucker bar device having a pivot axis, and an actuator for pivoting the sucker bar de... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7014185 | Spring-action suction head In a spring-action suction head for separating sheets from a sheet stack, a first suction chamber, which can be subjected to vacuum is provided for lifting the sheet. The first suction chamber is surrounded coaxially by a second suction chamber, which can be subject... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6994340 | Sheet feeding apparatus having an air fluffer A sheet feeding apparatus for feeding a stack of sheets in a direction of movement to a process station, including: a sheet tray for holding the stack of sheets; an air plenum, positioned above the stack of sheets, for picking up a sheet from the stack of sheets whe... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6969060 | Sheet removal and conveying system In a device for handling sheets of media in a stack, a picker bar for engaging the edge of a media sheet covers only a portion of the width of the sheet. The picker bar is rotated to shape the edge into a curve thus stiffening the edge so that it may be removed from... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6938896 | Automatic card dispensing unit with display capability An automatic card dispenser unit for displaying and dispensing cards includes a storage housing for storing an array of cards. A holding member operatively positions a lower most card at a load station in a vertical alignment for display. A controller unit can recei... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6935238 | Image recording material conveying device and automatic image recording system A conveying device for a printing plate precursor which takes the printing plate precursor and an interleaf sheet out from a cassette, and which, along a conveying path to an exposure section, takes-off only the interleaf sheet. When a leading end of the interleaf s... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6929258 | Sheet feeder and sheet feeding method A sheet feeder for use, with a stack having plates and sheets alternating. Sheets are removed by being reliably suction adhered with a sucker. The sheet feeder includes a suction device, and the sucker and device are mounted at a supporting portion. In order to allo... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6843474 | Method and device for application of thin objects The present invention relates to a method of and an apparatus for separation and application of thin objects of a non-porous material or of a material of low porosity on a surface. The invention also relates to a package for the thin objects. With the aid of a pick ... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6843359 | Automatic feed device for individual publishing products An automatic feed device for individual publishing products of different thickness and sizes includes a first conveyor belt (13) and a second conveyor belt (14) arranged with the first conveyor belt (13) being partially over the second conveyor ... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6817606 | Packaging material of photothermographic image recording sheet and detecting method of presence/absence of residual photothermographic image recording sheet The problem of the present invention is to clear the packaging material and the presence/absence detecting method of the residual photothermographic image recording sheet, which are improved so that the concave section or the notched section provided on the bottom p... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6758469 | Gripping conveyor with pneumatic separator A feeding device for feeding a processing line with printed products, including folded or non-folded printed sheets, from a stack of printed products. The printed sheets are held in a magazine. A conveyor defines a circulating path and moves in a conveying direction... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6742779 | Automatic document transport method and device using suction to retain unfed documents during feeding In connection with a method for automatically inserting documents to be displayed on a display device and/or copied in a digitizing device, such as microfiches, microfilm jackets or the like, in which process one document at a time is transported from a stack of doc... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6729837 | Sheet feeder and sheet feeding method A sheet feeder for use with a stack having plates and sheets alternating. Sheets are removed by being reliably suction adhered with a sucker. The sheet feeder includes a suction device, and the sucker and device are mounted at a supporting portion. In order to allow... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729237 | Device for removing image recording material A device for removing an image recording material is provided, which takes up little space and is used with printing plates and interleaf sheets set alternately in a cassette. An interleaf sheet and a printing plate are taken out simultaneously. In the midst of bein... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6682065 | Device for feeding objects piece by piece The invention concerns a device for feeding objects which have the shape of essentially flat but flexible sheets (1) or blanks of sheet material, piece by piece from the top of a magazine (24) consisting of a plurality of such objects which are arranged o... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6641131 | Handling device, in particular for handling boards and foils A handling device is proposed, in particular for handling boards and foils, with a number of suction grippers located in a plane. A suction plate (10) is provided which is made of a porous material or sintered material and a suction pressure can be applie... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6609708 | Vacuum corrugation shuttle feed device for high capacity feeder A feed apparatus which combines a slider crank feed head drive system and cam actuated stack height sensing system to form a new combined shuttle feeder. The new feed head drive includes the replacement of a solenoid driven feed head with a more reliable ... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6607192 | Sheet feeder and sheet feeding method for plate-shaped members A sheet feeding method for plate-shaped members is disclosed. In a sucker unit, suction nozzles are move down from respective original positions toward a bottom plate of a cassette at a fixed speed, and time t1 until the bottom plate is detected by a cont... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6557845 | Sheet separating device An apparatus for separating a flat product from a pile of flat products includes a sucker mechanism. The sucker mechanism has a sucker cup, a sucker tube and a vacuum device for generating a vacuum. The sucker tube has a first and second end, the sucker c... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6502815 | Lifting/pull-sucker drive mechanism for a sheet-processing machine A lifting/pull-sucker drive mechanism for a separating element of a sheet-processing machine, having a drivable control cam for moving at least one lifting sucker, and having a drivable control cam for moving at least one pull sucker, respectively, includ... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6499735 | Method and device for separating and transporting sheets of paper A method for separating a respective sheet from a sheet pile and transporting it to a sheet processing machine, wherein the respective sheet is lifted by at least one lifting suction device to a transfer level lying above a suction air intake level, and t... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6474635 | Carton unloading and erecting apparatus An unloading and erecting apparatus has a frame fixed to a magazine holding a stack of flattened cartons, an outer horizontal guide on the frame, an outer horizontal slide horizontally displaceable on the outer horizontal guide and carrying a nonstraight ... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6450493 | Image transfer apparatus shuttle feeder module An image transfer apparatus shuttle feeder module comprising a module frame, an air fluffer assembly, a vacuum shuttle box assembly, and an air knife assembly. The air fluffer assembly is supported from the module frame. The vacuum shuttle box assembly is... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6416048 | Method and apparatus for picking up papers An apparatus for picking up a plurality of papers stacked in an upright position one by one is disclosed. A pick-up mechanism is angularly movable about a single point between a position for sucking the outermost paper and a position for conveying it. Whi... | 07/09/2002 |
