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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7578499 | Conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus A conveying apparatus for conveying a flexible sheet along a sheet-convey path including a curved portion. The conveying apparatus includes an outer guide which defines an outer portion of the curved portion of the sheet-convey path. The outer guide includes a guide... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7435025 | Image recording apparatus An image recording apparatus includes an accommodation section, an image recording section, an outer arcuate guide member, an inner arcuate guide member, and a feeding section. Recording media are stacked on the accommodation section. The image recording section for... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7410160 | Pick-up unit and an image forming apparatus having the same A paper pick-up unit of an image forming apparatus includes an elliptical pick-up rubber having a first arcuate part and a second arcuate part. The first and second arcuate parts are symmetrical to each other and contact a paper. A pick-up housing supports the pick-... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7410161 | Sheet feeding apparatus, and image forming apparatus and image reading apparatus respectively equipped with sheet feeding apparatus A sheet feeding apparatus comprises a sheet stacking portion for stacking sheets thereon, a sheet feeding rotating member for feeding the sheet stacked on the sheet stacking portion, a stopper for regulating the sheet stacked on the sheet stacking portion, and a rot... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7387297 | Printing system sheet feeder using rear and front nudger rolls A printing system sheet feeder apparatus and method is provided. The printing system feeder includes a front nudger roll positioned near the leading edge of the top sheet of a sheet stack and the front nudger roll is capable of advancing the top sheet. In addition, ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7384033 | Feed roller unit and conveyance apparatus A feed roller unit comprises: a feed roller that abuts against a topmost sheet of a stack of sheets, and rotates to convey the topmost sheet in a conveyance direction, the feed roller being provided to be displaceable in a direction reverse to the conveyance directi... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7380782 | Automatic document feeder having a replaceable friction roller assembly An automatic document feeder (ADF) having a replaceable friction roller assembly. The ADF includes a housing having a back plate which may be raised and a base pivotalby connected to the back plate, a supporting element disposed on the housing and having a shaft hol... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7133639 | Medicine-bag printing apparatus To provide a medicine-bag printing apparatus provided with a conveying mechanism that can smoothly convey medicine bags and align them. A medicine bag (2 ) is printed by any one of a plurality of printers (11, 12 ) to be collected in a collecting porti... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7131593 | Method for processing sheet material A method for separating and processing successively different groups of sheet material in a sheet processing device that includes utilizing at least one separating card arranged to provide an indication of a separate group of sheet material to the sheet processing d... | 11/07/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7108259 | Apparatus to feed paper in an image forming device An apparatus to feed paper in an image forming device, which picks up papers with various thickness received in the feeding stand without a feeding error, and transfers the same to the developing unit. The apparatus includes, a feeding stand to receive a plurality o... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7080833 | Paper feeding apparatus A sheet base, a base portion and a paper feeding roller unit are provided. A fixed inclined portion of the sheet base is raised from the base portion. A movable portion of the sheet base is provided with an arm attached to a later shaft. The arm is attached with a s... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7040614 | Sheet feeding device and recording apparatus A sheet material feeding apparatus includes a sheet stacking portion for stacking recording sheets; a feeding roller for feeding the recording sheets from the sheet stacking portion; separating means for separating the recording sheet fed out by the feeding roller; ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7029003 | Automatic paper feed apparatus The present invention provides an automatic paper feed apparatus which can reliably prevent papers from being discharged in an overlapped state in spite of simple construction. The automatic paper feed apparatus comprises a paper feed roller for automatically feedin... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7011305 | Device and method for aligning sheets A device for aligning sheets prior to transferring the sheets to a sheet-processing machine includes at least one sheet-gripping device by the aid of which the sheet to be aligned is displaceable, the sheet-gripping device having at least one positioning table displ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7004460 | Media bias assembly for hardcopy devices The illustrated embodiment comprises a media bias assembly for use in a hardcopy device. A driven pick roll delivers media from a stack of media to a media feed path in the hardcopy device. Media is contained in an input tray and the pick roll is mounted on one side... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6932529 | Method and systems for accessing a separation pad in a printing device A printing device including a feed roller assembly, a separation pad located adjacent to the feed roller assembly, and a printer housing having an access plate. The separation pad is user-accessible when the access plate is opened. ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6877734 | Sheet feeding device, sheet feeding method and image forming apparatus The paper feeder of the present invention includes paper supply cassettes to house sheets of paper; friction paper pickup rollers to take out sheets of paper one by one by contacting a paper placed at the top of paper in the paper supply cassettes; openings formed o... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6874653 | Metering napkin dispenser A product metering napkin dispenser includes a housing defining a storage magazine for receiving a stack of folded napkins and a metering member that penetrates the stack in order to segregate a predetermined number of napkins from the remainder of the stack for dis... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6755413 | Sheet feeder A sheet feeder includes a cassette for containing a plurality of stacked sheets, a holding member for holding sheets from above, a pickup roller which contacts the uppermost sheet from above during one rotation, thereby feeding and transporting the uppermost sheet, ... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6715750 | Flexible media dispenser A dispenser for dispensing flexible media such as cut sheets (1) from a stack has a rotatable separating member (4) which engages and reverse buckles one end of the top sheet (2) so that that end is lifted away from the stack and positioned betw... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6682064 | Method and apparatus for dismantling a stack of flat objects piece by piece A method for dismantling a stack (1) of flat objects (2, 3) piece by piece, in which the top object (2) of the stack (1) is moved in its plane, gripped at its freed edge and removed from the stack (1). The top object (2) is moved against a stop (5), at le... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6681828 | Method and apparatus for separating image-bearing media Method and apparatus for peeling a carrier web having a protective layer from a keeper sheet of image-bearing medium. The carrier web and the protective layer are peeled about a peel member as the keeper sheet moves over and is deformed by a constraining ... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6648322 | Paper feeding device for printer A paper feeding device for a printer. The device includes a paper feeding cassette to load a plurality of paper sheets, and a driving power source. A driving gear is driven by the driving power source, and a passive gear rotates interlockingly with the dr... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6626427 | Adaptive sheet feeding roll A self-adaptive sheet feeding roll for reliably feeding, within a sheet feeding apparatus, sheets of various and different sheet weights along a sheet path. The self-adaptive sheet feeding roll includes (a) a cylindrical core having a longitudinal axis an... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6622888 | Metering napkin dispenser A product metering napkin dispenser includes a housing defining a storage magazine for receiving a stack of folded napkins and a metering member that penetrates the stack in order to segregate a predetermined number of napkins from the remainder of the st... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6616138 | Recording device and a device for separating and feeding paper Resilient supporting member for resiliently supporting the lower edge of recording paper sheets is provided near a lower part of a back plate of a paper sheet feeding apparatus. The resilient supporting member includes a rocking support piece and a spring... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6575451 | Sheet feeder A sheet feeder includes a cassette for containing a plurality of stacked sheets, a holding member for holding sheets from above, a pickup roller which contacts the uppermost sheet from above during one rotation, thereby feeding and transporting the upperm... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6523820 | Non-planar single sheet separator wall and apparatus A non-planar single sheet separator wall preferably inclined at about 25° from the vertical away from a paper stack first engages the side corners of the leading edge of a sheet of paper or other media picked from the top of the generally horizontal or d... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6503010 | Paper pickup apparatus for a printer A paper pickup apparatus in a printer for pivotally moving by a motor includes a driving shaft rotated by the motor, a first pickup housing having at least one first transmission gear and first and second end portions, the first end portion mounted to the... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6315283 | Input hopper and encoding station for card printer A card feeder for a card printer provides a stack of cards at an input end of the printer. The cards are supported on a pair of rollers that are driven at differential speeds and through one-way clutches so that a card being fed from the stack will pass t... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6113092 | Sheet-fed printing press with rotary decollator A printing machine is described that includes a rotary plate for decollating top sheet from a stack of sheets by turning the top sheet so as to expose a second sheet. The machine also has a clamping finger that tilts into position to hold the second sheet... | 09/05/2000 |
| 5951180 | Printing apparatus with step-driven reversible pickup-roller When performing printing by the ink jet head 13, the control unit 78 controls the step motor 75 to rotate counterclockwise by the first number of steps corresponding to the paper feeding quantity of one-line and, after the paper feeding of one-line, to ro... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5915689 | Quick change swiper blades A blade for use in an apparatus for urging sheets against registration edges in a sheet compiler is provided. The blade includes a body having a contact surface for contact with the sheets and a locating feature. The locating feature is connected to the b... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5882003 | Apparatus having document transport mechanism A document transport apparatus has a box-shaped housing, or case, having first and second openings provided in a sidewall of the case, a drawer movable into and out of the case through the first opening and a hopper part accessible through the second open... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5785311 | Sheet separating and feeding device A sheet separating and feeding device for use as a component of a sheet processing apparatus is disclosed in which a first feeding device acts on the top of a stack of sheets to feed the top sheet toward a take away feeder for removal from the stack, duri... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5755434 | Dispensing hopper construction for bank note processing machine A dispensing hopper construction for a bank note processing machine for effectively pooling a number of bank notes transferred from a bank note transferring section inside the bank note processing machine in order in a dispensing hopper section even while... | 05/26/1998 |
| 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 |
| 5545282 | Method and a device of stripping foil cuttings To strip laminated foil cuttings, which are provided with incisions in a cover foil adhered to a carrier paper through a self-adhesive bottom layer, an incision forming a separation line is made into the carrier paper of a forward edge of each foil cuttin... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5494276 | Method and apparatus for shingling documents Apparatus for shingling a plurality of documents disposed in stacked relation so that the stack extends successively from a first end to a second end, and has at least one boundary defined by substantially coplanar marginal edges of the documents. The sta... | 02/27/1996 |
