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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7971869 | Printing media supply device for image forming apparatus A printing media supply device for use in an image forming apparatus includes a printing media supply cassette adapted to receive a stack of printing media. A pick-up roller picks up the printing media stacked in the printing media supply cassette. The pick-up rolle... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7556258 | Feed roller, feed roller assembly, and sheet handling system A feed roller is provided for use in a feed roller assembly for intermittently feeding sheets. The feed roller has a body having a cross-section including an arc portion forming a partially cylindrical configuration. A support member is coupled to the body on at lea... | 07/07/2009 |
| 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 |
| 7392979 | Paper supply device with multiple cam surfaces and followers A paper supply device for reliably delivering sheets of paper one at a time from a stock of multiple sheets even when the leading ends of the sheets are not neatly aligned together. This paper supply device M1 has a paper insertion part 11 for holding ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7370858 | Apparatus for and method of preventing paper double feeding in printer An apparatus for and method of preventing paper double feeding in a paper feeding unit of a printer include a stripper which is installed to be inclined at a predetermined angle and attached to at least one front side of a plurality of paper guides, a lever which is... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7303063 | Sequential stepped movement staging device A sequential stepped movement staging device comprises six legs 70 of equal length extending radially from a central sphere 46 in an X-Y-Z orthogonal relationship. The sphere 46 and legs 70 are held in a horizontally fixed position relati... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7266329 | Toner image carrying member and manufacturing method thereof, and electrophotographic apparatus A toner image carrying member can be rotationally driven, and a plurality of grooves are formed on an outer peripheral surfaces of the toner image carrying member, the plurality of grooves extending along a rotation direction of the toner image carrying member and a... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7261236 | Automated banking machine which dispenses, receives and stores notes and other financial instrument sheets An ATM (10) includes a housing (46) including a generally L-shaped chest portion (48) and an upper housing portion (54). The ATM includes a fascia (12) which extends on the outside of a wall (14) and includes a user interfac... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7128317 | Moveable media dam A moveable media dam comprises a media dam rotatably connected to a dam shaft, the dam shaft extending from a lever. An arm has at least one camming member and the lever is engaged by the at least one camming member. The arm operably engages a gear train and further... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7111840 | Sheet feeding roller with variable radius, sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus The present invention relates to a sheet feeding roller for feeding a sheet by rotation in pressed contact with stacked sheets by an outer peripheral surface of the roller. A distance from a rotary center to the outer peripheral surface is changeable according to th... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7055817 | Friction wheel separator for separating sheetlike items A friction wheel singler is proposed for singling sheet material, in particular bank notes, comprising sheet magazine 5 for receiving stack of sheets 1, singling cylinder 2 having one or more friction elements 4 for contacting and conveyi... | 06/06/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6985265 | Image forming device and sheet feeding device A printer including a main body and a sheet-supply cassette attachable to and detachable from the main body. The sheet-supply cassette includes a sheet guide movable to a position that depends on size of sheets in the cassette, cam abutment portion that moves integr... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6945526 | Method of picking a sheet from a stack A picking member (72) rotates to cause a sheet to be picked from a stack (42) of sheets. The picking member includes movable engaging portions supported on arcuate segments (128, 144). The engaging portions move radially outward to apply additio... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6798899 | Document feeding method and apparatus A document feeding apparatus for use with a document processing device. The document feeding apparatus comprises an input receptacle adapted to receive a stack of documents and at least one feeding wheel adapted to strip documents, one at a time, from the stack of d... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6708969 | Paper feeder A paper returner is placed in the vicinity of an end portion of a hopper for stacking a plurality of sheets of paper which faces a paper feeding roller, so as to be pivotable between a first position where the paper returner constitutes a part of the paper transport... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6634636 | Method of picking notes from a stack An automated banking machine (10) includes sheet dispensing mechanisms (34, 36, 38, 40). Each sheet dispensing mechanism includes a picking member (72). The picking member rotates, with each rotation generally causing one sheet to be picked from a stack (... | 10/21/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6425578 | Image recording apparatus and method Image recording apparatus for recording an image on a recording plate, the apparatus comprising a plate store (1) for storing a stack (12) of recording plates separated by interleaved sheets; a drum image scanner (6) on which recording plates are located for r... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6390462 | Paper supply device and image forming apparatus The paper supply device according to the present invention includes a paper support member for supporting paper, a pick-up roller which is in contact with the paper and takes the paper out of the paper support member in a specified direction, and a removi... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6382621 | Paper feeder with movable separation slope surface and image forming apparatus equipped therewith A paper feeder has a sheet stacking surface for stacking sheets, a paper feeding roller which is in contact with the uppermost surface of the sheets stacked on the sheet stacking surface to feed sheets, a movable separation slope surface against which the... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6349932 | Paper feed device and an image forming apparatus having the paper feed device A paper feed device includes paper feed rollers to feed a sheet of paper. A paper loading device is loaded with at least a sheet of paper and lifts the loaded sheet of paper toward the paper feed rollers. A pressure differences decreasing device is mounte... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6305682 | Sheet supplying apparatus A sheet supplying apparatus has a sheet support for supporting sheets, and a sheet supply roller for feeding out the sheets supported by the sheet support. An abutment member is pivotally supported to be rocked between a regulating position to regulate a ... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6186490 | Bill dispensing device To provide a bill dispensing device capable of handling bills widely differing from each other in paper quality and creases with high reliability and of handling all the bills of widely different lengths with respect to a delivery direction. A bill dispen... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6135444 | Automatic sheet feeding mechanism A sheet feeding mechanism including a pick apparatus for selectively moving a sheet of media from a stack. A kicker is disclosed in several embodiments and serves to retain media on the stack. In a first embodiment, a cam is coupled to the pick apparatus ... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6082729 | Automatic sheet feeding mechanism A sheet feeding mechanism including a pick apparatus for selectively moving a sheet of media from a stack. The invention is a counter rotating roll design that uses staggered and nested rolls to achieve separation. The invention includes a separator roll ... | 07/04/2000 |
| 5882004 | Automatic sheet feeding mechanism A sheet feeding mechanism including a pick apparatus for selectively moving a sheet of media from a stack. A kicker is disclosed in several embodiments and serves to retain media on the stack. A cam is coupled to the pick apparatus for deflecting the kick... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5782468 | Transmission mechanism of a fax printer for picking up and feeding paper A transmission mechanism is installed in a machine and driven by a motor to pick up and feed paper. The mechanism includes a transmission gear and a return gear turned by a motor through a reduction gear train, a rocker turned with the transmission gear t... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5687963 | Method and apparatus for discriminating and counting documents A currency handling apparatus wherein an input bin is provided for accepting a stack of bills from which bottom bills are to be successively fed in single file in a given feed direction along a bill transport path. The apparatus is provided with a feed ar... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5582399 | Sheet feeding device having sheet edge sensor A sheet feeding device for feeding a sheet stacked on a sheet cassette to an image forming portion of an image recording apparatus. The sheet feeding device includes a sheet supplying roller unit and a sheet feed roller positioned downstream thereof. The ... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5489360 | Label sticking apparatus and label tape A label sticking apparatus has a suction drum with at least three holding-sticking units mounted at constant intervals on the periphery thereof so as to be movable in radial directions of the suction drum. The suction drum is rotated intermittently by a c... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5462373 | Sheet advancement system with phase-adjustable roller arrangement A sheet advancement system is provided which includes a roller arrangement having first and second rollers coupled to afford selected in-phase and out-of-phase relative rotational orientation thereof. Each roller includes a periphery with gripping and non... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5449161 | Hard copy sheet media pick mechanism A device for pre-picking a top sheet of media from a stack is disclosed. A biased friction pad is mounted on a D-shaped pick roller mechanism to engage the top sheet with a lighter force than that which follows when a similar friction pad on the D-shaped ... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5145162 | Blank dispensing apparatus having oppositely rotating separator elements and method for use An apparatus for the feeding of individual carton blanks from a stack of blanks held in a retaining magazine to an adjacent takeaway belt of a conveyor. A bi-directional roller of two or more wheels is provided whereby a cleat attached to the rim of one w... | 09/08/1992 |
| 5120042 | Document sheet feeder A document sheet feeder in accordance with the present invention includes a document sheet stacker, an inclined surface portion which is inclined by a predetermined angle with respect to the document sheet stacker, a separation roller which is disposed ab... | 06/09/1992 |
| 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 |
| 4900006 | Tangential approach, low noise paddle wheel drive A low noise paddle wheel system includes a paddle wheel and a fork shaped deflector that forces blades on the paddle wheel to approach the impact surface of a tray over which the paddle wheel is mounted tangentially in order to reduce or diminish noise cr... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4872593 | Dispenser for packaged bandages and the like An apparatus is provided for the storage and dispensing of packaged adhesive bandages and similarly shaped flat packaged units. The dispenser includes a drive unit base, which may be powered either manually or electrically. A cartridge is removably mounta... | 10/10/1989 |
| 4759435 | Metering and singulating apparatus for integrated circuits An apparatus for metering and singulating electronic devices such as integrated circuits that are arrayed initially in a column. A support member positioned over one end of the column has a plurality of spaced apart coil springs that extend radially to en... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4750726 | Automatic document feeder/separator for copiers In a sheet feeding system for a copier, for the sequential separation and feeding of individual sheets from a stack of sheets by an impact type sheet feeder, there is provided a plural mode stack repositioning system for automatically repositioning the to... | 06/14/1988 |
