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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8162311 | Placing table and liquid body discharge device A placing table includes a placing surface on which a substrate is placed; a suction unit which sucks the substrate to the placing surface; a separation unit which separates the substrate from the placing surface; and a rotation unit, being a part of the placing sur... | 04/24/2012 |
| 7367504 | Transaction card assemblies and methods Transaction card assemblies, systems and methods of making are provided. One such assembly includes a card carrier having a card integrally formed within. The card peripherally engages the card carrier and is adapted to be removed from the card carrier. An encodable... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7269934 | Taco shell nesting apparatus and method The present invention is, in one embodiment, an apparatus for placing an insert within a nested group of taco shells. The insert placement apparatus comprises a vertical shaft, a horizontal shaft, a first pillow block, a second pillow block, a vacuum cup, a horizont... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7222846 | Sheet take-out apparatus and method of taking out sheets A sheet take-out apparatus is disclosed that includes a sheet-feeding member on which sheets are placed. The apparatus includes an air spout unit to spout out air towards a right or left side of a front portion of the sheets with respect to a take-out direction of t... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7182332 | Feed device for stacks of paper, plastic material or the like A feed device for stacks of paper or plastic material has at least one transport unit with a supporting member for the stack and at least one transport element. A separating unit with at least one rotatably driven feed drum is provided for removing individual sheets... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7125012 | Rotatable feed wheel for sheet converting machine A feed wheel includes a hub and a discontinuous tread removably fitted about the hub. At leading and trailing ends of the discontinuous tread are mateable non-planar female and male surfaces which interfit with one another and tend to interlock the tread ends togeth... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7080776 | Transaction card assemblies and methods Transaction card assemblies, systems and methods of making are provided. One such assembly includes a card carrier having a card integrally formed within. The card peripherally engages the card carrier and is adapted to be removed from the card carrier. An encodable... | 07/25/2006 |
| 6824130 | Method and apparatus for feeding sheets Paperboard sheets are fed by a feeder including driven wheels which engage the lowermost sheet of a stack and drive it through the nip rolls of a box-finishing machine in synchronism with the latter. Supporting the sheets is a grate moveable between a raised positio... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6755412 | High speed overlapping insert feeding assembly An insert feeding assembly includes an insert support, an overlapping feeding assembly, a separating assembly, and a main drive assembly. The insert support provides support for a stack of inserts, the overlapping feeding assembly converts the stack of inserts into ... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6581517 | Printing-machine cylinder, especially an impression cylinder, for a sheet-fed rotary printing machine, and method of production A printing-machine cylinder includes a basic cylinder body and a covering element fitted to the basic cylinder body, one of the basic cylinder body and the covering element being formed with a multiplicity of recesses connectable to one of a suction-air s... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6550388 | Apparatus and method for removing a thin deformable sheet An apparatus for removing slip sheets from printing plates has two concentric cylinders that are mutually rotatable about a common axis. Suction exerted via two elongated slots separates a deformable sheet from a relatively rigid object to which it is adh... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6543760 | Method and device for successively feeding sheets from a stack of sheets The invention relates to a device for feeding sheets one by one from a stack of sheets to a transportation device. The sheet-feeding device comprises a number of parallel, separately driven shafts which are equidistantly spaced from one another and are en... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6315281 | Apparatus for sending out bill or card type material This invention involves an apparatus which is able to payout surly and speedily sheet bodies one by one, while minimizing the overall dimensions of the apparatus and with a simplified structure. This present invention is an apparatus for paying out a shee... | 11/13/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6224050 | Method and apparatus for feeding astride folded signatures to a collection path A method and an apparatus is disclosed for feeding astride signatures (3) to a collection path. The signatures (3) are removed from a magazine (4) with a conveyor drum (6) and transferred to an opening device (16). The transport speed of the signature lif... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6176481 | Apparatus having conveying means of medium An apparatus has a paper cassette capable of accommodating a recording medium such as large-size recording sheets or OHP film, and an accommodating unit capable of accommodating recording sheets such as plain paper. The types of recording sheets that are ... | 01/23/2001 |
| 5884907 | Suction device and recording/reading apparatus A recording/reading apparatus includes a recording/reading device for recording or reading information on sheets, a suction cup for picking up an object by suction, with the suction cup having an air outlet hole, a container having an inner space that is ... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5704607 | Sheet feed and presenting assembly A sheet feed assembly for feeding sheets from a stack comprises a vacuum feed device which is movable to feed a sheet from the stack in the feed direction while the sheet is held on the feed device under vacuum. A sheet holding device is spaced from the v... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5664786 | Apparatus and method for use in handling sheet material articles A rotating separator disk is movable between sheet material articles in a stack of sheet material articles. A variable speed drive which is connected with the separator disk and rotates the separator disk. The variable speed drive is operable to vary the ... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5651313 | Paperboard processing machine with vacuum transfer system A paperboard processing machine is disclosed for printing and otherwise processing sheets of paperboard, such as corrugated container blanks, and in which the sheets are conveyed from one section of the machine to another section by one or more vacuum tra... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5520382 | Sheet transfer device operative against sheet with flexible transfer force A sheet guide surface is provided with an air intake port through which a circumferential portion of a fan rotor of a fan for drawing air radially inwardly through the air intake port projects above the sheet guide surface so that the sheet is drawn onto ... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5518574 | Form folding and gluing machine A self-mailer machine for producing self-adhered mailers from single sheets has improved vacuum feed for high operating speed and larger batch loading than has been previously available. The machine also has an improved glue reservoir system wherein glue ... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5494398 | Unstacking machine and method A device as described for unstacking thin, flat articles, particularly flexible articles, and especially tortillas, from a stack of the same, which includes means for repetitively picking up the topmost tortilla in a stack and conveying it to a moving bel... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5464202 | Apparatus and method for feeding sheets from a stack In a system and method for feeding sheets from a stack, a support arrangement is provided having a plurality of rows of rollers mounted on support levers to support the stack above a first carrier. The rollers are lowered so that a lowermost sheet of the ... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5451042 | Device for distributing semi-rigid sheets, particularly of cardboard, from a stack This invention relates to a device for distributing semi-rigid sheets, one by one, below or above a stop behind which said sheets are stacked. The device has no sheet-extraction system in front of the stop and no fixed surface in contact with the stack in... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5330169 | Apparatus and method for handling sheet material articles An apparatus for use in handling sheet material articles includes a feed drum which is rotatable to sequentially pull sheet material articles from a hopper. A separator assembly includes a rotatable separator disk in which a plurality of gaps are formed. ... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5256365 | In-molding labeling method A method of labeling mold cavities in a blow-molding machine using an in-mold labeling system including first and second label magazines, first and second rotary members each having a label transfer unit with a suction cup, and using the steps of rotating... | 10/26/1993 |
| 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 |
| 5228674 | Sheet feeding apparatus A sheet feeding apparatus capable of feeding corrugated cardboard sheet without the need for feed rolls which comprises a support for sheet having a feed end and a delivery end. The support further includes feed elements comprising at least one feed eleme... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5219157 | Paperboard feeding apparatus The present invention relates to a lead edge type paperboard feeding apparatus suitable for a box making machine for corrugated board sheets and the like, and more particularly, provides a paperboard feeding apparatus provided with delivery rolls which de... | 06/15/1993 |
| 5092577 | Rotary vacuum cam device for placing inserts into a package A vacuum aperture in a rotatable cam bears on an insert in an insert magazine when the cam is at rest. The vacuum port sucks the insert up against the face of the cam and away from the inserts in the magazine. When the cam is rotated and accelerated to be... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5050852 | Blank feeder and method for controlling the same A blank feeder for feeding blanks. It has a feed table on which a plurality of blanks are stacked, a suction unit provided under the table to suck the lowermost one of the stack downward, a motor-driven first feed rolls mounted in the suction unit and ada... | 09/24/1991 |
| 5048812 | Sheet feeding apparatus A sheet feeding apparatus capable of feeding corrugated cardboard sheet without the need for feed rolls which comprises a support for sheet having a feed end and a delivery end. The support further includes feed elements comprising at least one feed eleme... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5028043 | Suction device for the gripping and decollating of the bottom blank of a stack of blanks A device for gripping and decollating a bottom blank comprises a rotary shaft with a flat outer peripheral portion. Suction orifices in the shaft extend through the flat surface portion and communicate with suction cups carried by the shaft. Free outer ed... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5026040 | Device for the sequential introduction of sheets in a shaping or forming machine A device for sequentially introducing sheets placed in a stack into the nips of a pair of introduction rollers comprising at least one linear member having ends secured to a control pulley or roller and passing around a return pulley or roller which is ad... | 06/25/1991 |
| 5005815 | Apparatus and method for individually printing signatures during delivery to a binding line conveyor An apparatus and method for individually printing signatures during delivery to a binding line conveyor. A plurality of signatures are provided at a feeding station for delivery to a binding line conveyor. The signatures are transferred by means of a tran... | 04/09/1991 |
| 4986524 | Label injector for hemming machines A label injector for placing labels in the hems of towels, or the like, is disclosed. The labels are extracted from a vertical magazine onto the surface of a wheel by a combination of suction into openings on the surface of the wheel and upward movement o... | 01/22/1991 |
| 4978416 | Stack fed labeling machine Labeling machine of the stack fed type in which the labels are precut and arranged vertically in a horizontal stack. Pressure is applied to the rear of the stack to move the stack forwardly as the labels are dispensed to a label transfer mechanism such as... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4928950 | Rotary type feeder machines and methods A method for making a lead edge feeder for feeding corrugated paperboard is described which eliminates the need for a complex indexing transmission. The method includes connecting a rocker shaft to a rocker gear so that the rocker gear rotates in a feed d... | 05/29/1990 |
| 4909500 | Device for conveying sheets, for example paper sheets A device for conveying sheets in a given travel direction includes a conveying head having a vacuum-applying device for removing an uppermost sheet from a pile of sheets and for maintaining the sheet under suction, the conveying head and the uppermost she... | 03/20/1990 |
