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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7419155 | Device for separating sheet-type products A friction wheel singler for singling bank notes includes a singler roller 1 with grooves 2, and retaining wheels 14 cooperating with the grooves 2. The retaining wheels 14 have friction areas 14a and sliding areas | 09/02/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7181416 | Multi-function transaction processing system A multi-function transaction processing system including a transaction terminal having a data entry facility and a transaction processor, the transaction processor being communicatively associated with a control processor that defines user accounts and issues one or... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7004461 | Device for isolating and feeding the lowest sheet in each case from a stack In a device for isolating and feeding the lowest sheet (1) in each case from a stack (2), with pushing-out elements (9) which grip the rear edge (3a, 3b) of the sheet (1) and transport it through, under a front... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6705606 | Bag placer magazine A bag placer magazine such as for feeding flat pleated paper or plastic bags to a bag filling apparatus. The bag magazine accommodates flat pleated bags stacked horizontally on a moveable conveyor platform which circulates around the stacked bags. Bags are removed o... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6402135 | Sheet feeder for handling sheets of varying thickness A high-speed sheet feeder includes a separator wheel having a diameter of about three inches. A curved metal shroud having a low friction surface is disposed in close proximity to the wheel. The shroud has first and second straight parts that are disposed... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6267370 | Inclining slide for card dispensing device A card dispensing device has a mechanism for preventing double feeding of cards. The double feed preventing mechanism can be card attitude correction rollers, which adjoin the leading edges of the cards within the card dispensing unit and thickness screws... | 07/31/2001 |
| 5924687 | Newspaper hopper and feeder having rail-mounted, one-way rollers A hopper and feeder assembly for feeding newspapers to be collated or assembled for delivery is provided which includes a reciprocating feeder device employing roller clutch and bearing wheel assemblies. The roller clutch and bearing wheel assemblies lock... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5611527 | Device for dispensing a sheetlike object from a stack A device for dispensing a sheetlike object, especially a card with magnetic strip, from a stack has a storage compartment for the stack and an object removal unit on a lower side of the storage compartment. The object removal unit has a conveying element ... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5467895 | Ticket dispensing machine A ticket dispensing machine which can dispense the lowermost ticket from a column of tickets, has a reciprocating arm member which includes a selector having a rocker arm to facilitate engagement with, and ejection of tickets. This allows the machine to e... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5423619 | Card printing apparatus When a magnetic head is fed in one direction by a card stage, ID information recorded in a magnetic stripe on a lowermost one of vertically stacked cards in a card stock unit is read by the magnetic head. Then, the lowermost card is carried by the card st... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5330171 | Base having anti-vibration means A base for operative association with an operating mechanism sensitive to horizontal vibration, such as an ink jet printer, supports a horizontal document feeder plate and associated drive operative to advance documents in sequential fashion from a stack ... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5199699 | Base having anti-vibration means A base for operative association with an operating mechanism sensitive to horizontal vibration, such as an ink jet printer, supports a horizontal document feeder plate and associated drive operative to advance documents in sequential fashion from a stack ... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5148187 | Printing apparatus with mechanism precisely defining printing start position A color printer is provided in which a paper sheet is wrapped about a rotatable platen and three colors are printed on the sheet, to obtain an image, by a thermal head and a color ribbon during three rotations of the platen. In a paper feeding device for ... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5137172 | Paper feed system A paper feed system suitable for use with a patty making machine to provide paper for separating patties, including a stack of sheet-form paper having a deformable element on the side edge thereof, a paper hopper, and a guide on the inside surface of a si... | 08/11/1992 |
| 5082268 | Credit card dispensing and positioning apparatus Apparatus for accurately dispensing and positioning a credit card onto a predetermined area of a surface, includes a support tray which supports a stack of cards; a pusher assembly including a pusher plate which pushes out a leading edge of a lowermost on... | 01/21/1992 |
| 4853712 | Sheet feed system for conpact printer A sheet feed and transport system for a compact printer features an idler gear which is coupled to rotate with the drive train from the platen motor to the platen and which is selectively movable into engagement with a sheet feed roller's drive gear.... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4783064 | Card feeding mechanism A card feeding mechanism utilizes a slider supported for reciprocating movement on a reference surface positioned below a card stack and a picker carried on the slider and operatively engaged with an edge of the lowermost card of the card stack to feed on... | 11/08/1988 |
| 4748923 | Method and apparatus for automated loading of apparel segments to a garment assembly machine and the like A method of automated garment assembly includes providing a shingled array of limp garment segments on a movable conveyor with the leading portion of the forwardmost segment exposed for contact by the segment transfer device, and subjecting the array to c... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4720230 | Triple combination flexible diskette picker An automatic flexible diskette picker for selectively ejecting flexible diskettes, one-at-a-time, from a stack of such diskettes. The picker comprises a stationary deadplate upon which a hopper containing a plurality of stacked diskettes of a given size i... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4676682 | Marking machine with tag feeder A feeder device for feeding tags, cards, nameplates and the like to a rotary printer or marking machine. The feeder device is comprised of a chute for receiving a stack of tags. A reciprocatory pusher plate or shuttle is adapted to push a bottom-most tag ... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4665455 | Diskette sequential transport apparatus Sequential diskette transport apparatus of the reciprocating type transports diskettes one after the other from a hopper to a disk drive where the disk component of each diskette can be operated on. The apparatus then retrieves each diskette in turn from ... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4661091 | Machine for manufacture of boxes with integrally reinforced walls Various configurations of boxes of a corrugated or fiberboard material are manufactured by a machine and process in which scored marginal flaps of the preformed box blank material are laterally wrapped around forming mandrels or fingers to define corner a... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4651509 | Arrangement on packing machines A packing machine for the manufacture of packing containers wherein tubular packing container blanks which in flattened condition are placed into a magazine and wherein the feeding out of packing container blanks from the magazine is accomplished by a rec... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4638749 | Automated system for sequentially loading lowermost segments from a shingled stack of limp material segments A system for selectively loading the lowermost segment of a shingled stack of limp material segments, where each segment includes one or more adjacent layers of said limp material, and wherein adjacent segments of said stack are laterally offset along a r... | 01/27/1987 |
| 4632718 | Frame separator with positioning pin The invention proposes a device designed for separating IC lead frames, boards, etc., piece by piece, and loading them continuously, and composed of a work stocker which holds laminated work of strips; a work-pressing mechanism which continuously presses ... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4483529 | Tag transport method Apparatus and method for attaching tags to garments, gloves, handbags and the like includes an assembly for feeding tags from a stacked supply to a tag attaching station, an assembly for affixing the tag to the garment at the tag attaching station, and a ... | 11/20/1984 |
| 4273321 | Apparatus for feeding conductor plates into a conductor plate tester Conductor plates are fed to a conductor plate tester from a stack by a reciprocating feeder which removes the lowermost plate only of the stack and propels it forwardly to a transport path. The transport path is inclined downwardly toward said tester, the... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4238125 | Plate feeding device for embossing machines Feeding apparatus for embossing machines that produce printing plates for address printing machines, identification means, and the like, is provided with a plate carriage on which a plate holder is mounted. The arrangement is such that the printing plates... | 12/09/1980 |
| 4102267 | Feeding of sheets and cards in a rotary duplicator machine capable of whole-page and linewise printing Sheets upon which the entire text on a printing form mounted on a printing drum is to be printed are fed to the printing drum via a sheet infeed transport path. Cards upon which only portions of the text are to be printed are fed to the printing drum via ... | 07/25/1978 |
| 3993300 | Automatic feeder for composite copying An automatic feeder for serially feeding successive information bearing members from a supply magazine to a copying station for composite copying in combination with a master text and then from the copying station to a suitable repository, such as a recei... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3960373 | Shuttle guard for signature feeder A signature feeding mechanism having a shuttle plate and an associated vacuum gripper for feeding the bottom signature from a stack in a supply magazine into the bite of pinch rolls which advance successive signature pieces to a transport system for advan... | 06/01/1976 |
| 3955092 | Arrangement for respectively withdrawing a single film sheet from a stack of directly loosely superimposed film sheets An arrangement for respectively withdrawing a single film sheet from a stack of directly loosely superimposed film sheets, particularly for use in X-ray filming apparatus, including a magazine for the film sheets, and transport means for the conveyance of... | 05/04/1976 |
