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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8066276 | Device for separating individual flat, bendable objects from the underside of a stack of such objects and for transporting the separated objects away A device for separating of individual, flat objects from the underside of a stack of this kind of objects (2) includes a roll bed conveyor consisting of a plurality of circulating rollers (9) and supporting the stack from beneath, wherein the rollers (... | 11/29/2011 |
| 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 |
| 6425580 | Recording medium transportation apparatus There is provided a recording medium transportation apparatus providing air suction to adhere a recording medium to a belt while the recording medium is being transported thereby, wherein the belt can have an optimized surface roughness and adjacent sucti... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6145829 | Process and device for selecting a single stacked flat object from a stack and use in packaging of cigarettes A process for selecting a single stacked flat object from a stack of flat objects. The lowermost flat object is downwardly detached from the rest of the stack of flat objects by negative pressure on at least one of its edge areas) running parallel to the ... | 11/14/2000 |
| 5695183 | Paper interleaver A paper feed system suitable for use with a portion control machine to provide paper sheets for separating portions, including a paper hopper mountable to a portion control machine and adapted to receive and temporarily retain a stack of paper sheets. The... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5464203 | Sheet feeder A Sheet Feeding System (10) having a reciprocating vacuum shuttle plate (52) includes a knife gate (112) and high-friction rollers 118 and 120 position between the knife gate and an additional conveyor formed by a driven feed roller 94 and an idler feed r... | 11/07/1995 |
| 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 |
| 5163667 | Sheet transfer device with suction table on a machine producing package A suction table which, in a machine converting sheets into package, transfers the last, lowermost sheet of a batch to a subsequent processing station. The table is provided with numerous blowing and sucking nozzles and is fitted on a hollow frame movable ... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5145161 | Sheet feeder A Sheet Feeding System (10) having a reciprocating vacuum shuttle plate (52) includes a knife gate (112) and high-friction rollers 118 and 120 position between the knife gate and an additional conveyor formed by a driven feed roller 94 and an idler feed r... | 09/08/1992 |
| 5050855 | Apparatus for extracting (pack) blanks from a blank magazine A process and an apparatus for the extraction of pack blanks (10) from a blank magazine (25). A special problem with high-performance packing machines is the extraction of blanks from the blank magazine (25) of the packing machine, especially thin cardboa... | 09/24/1991 |
| 5031892 | Apparatus for removing blanks from a pile and conveying them onwards A stack of blanks is guided between pile guides. Disposed on a support are holding members which can be laid against an exposed blank in the stack in order to grasp it and to be moved, with it, away from the stack. In the course of this, the support is mo... | 07/16/1991 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 4981223 | Apparatus for feeding boards from the base of the stack Apparatus for feeding boards (10) sequentially in one direction from the base of the stack through a feed gate (11) at the base of a front stack retaining wall (12) comprising a transverse series of perforated reciprocating conveying straps (14) mounted o... | 01/01/1991 |
| 4889332 | Document feeding apparatus A document feeding apparatus feeds a document (18) from the endmost position (22) of a stack of documents (10) into a document path (34) using a vacuum suction head operating through an aperture (36) in a baseplate (16). A vacuum source (38) attracts a do... | 12/26/1989 |
| 4889331 | Rotary-type feeder machines and methods A rotary feeder feeds sheets or board-like articles to nip rolls in a box-making machine. The boards are successively and individually fed from the bottom of a stack whose forward edge engages a gate below which the boards are fed by driven feed members s... | 12/26/1989 |
| 4880368 | In-mold label transfer apparatus An in-mold label transfer apparatus. In a first embodiment transfer devices mounted on an extension device comprise a pair of label applicator heads which move transversely to receive labels and to deliver same to the mold surfaces. This transfer device c... | 11/14/1989 |
| 4729731 | Linear actuator for label transfer device A label transferring apparatus useable for in-mold label application. In a first embodiment, a transfer device is mounted on a linear actuator having a piston rod extending out a first end and carrying the label transfer device and extending out the other... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4728091 | Sheet removal device A device is provided for the removal of the lowermost sheet from a stack of sheets in a tray wherein part of the tray consists of a removal element having a top surface with a first set of grooves through which an air stream can be blown to produce a stat... | 03/01/1988 |
| 4715596 | Paperboard sheet feeder A paperboard sheet feeder for feeding paperboard blanks to the feed rolls of processing equipment includes a support table and a pair of roller assemblies mounted on the support table. A drive includes gears connected to the roller assemblies through one-... | 12/29/1987 |
| 4701094 | Separator for heterogenous flat objects The article separator comprises at least one transfer station (20) receiving the articles to be transferred to the entrance of at least one delivery conveyor (4). Each transfer station is equipped with at least one pickup arm (21) with a suction head (22)... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4630812 | Delivery device for sheet bodies The known delivery device for sheet bodies in which sheet bodies stacked at a standby position are successively delivered one by one as kicked by a kicker, is improved in that the delivery device is additionally provided with a suction plate which sucks a... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4627606 | Bottom sheet feeding apparatus employing a combination slide plate and vacuum valve A bottom sheet feeding apparatus including a sheet separator and feeder and a sheet stacking tray which has a planar base portion defining a base plane, the front of the base portion having an opening within which the bottom sheet separator and feeder is ... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4619726 | Label applicator A machine design is taught for automatically applying adhesive coated labels to folded cartons at a precisely adjusted location on a carton. Both labels and cartons are supplied singularly from bottom feed magazines. A cam oscillated vacuum picker curls o... | 10/28/1986 |
| 4506875 | Suction-box feed device Feeder with a movable suction box, intended more particularly for equipping a magazine supplying sheets to a machine for making cases consisting of corrugated cardboard. The suction plate (10) of its suction box (6) is surrounded by a frame (17) made of f... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4498949 | Splicing apparatus for cross-flute corrugated board Apparatus is disclosed for splicing together successive sections of single facer corrugated board having planar and corrugated fibrous layers, which sections are initially conveyed colinearly in spaced relation at uniform speed with the flutes extending i... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4456241 | Sucker type card feeder A machine for feeding cards one by one from the bottom of a vertical stack into a receiving nip, the trailing edge portion of the stack being supported on a platform and the leading edge of the stack having a stripper type support in the form of a project... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4319948 | Card-affixing apparatus Individualized sequenced sheets are carried along a conveyer to a predetermined location where an adhesive pattern is applied prior to reaching a card-affixing station where a corresponding individualized sequenced card is attached. A reciprocating carria... | 03/16/1982 |
| 4287016 | Machine for applying indicia to tennis ball felts This disclosure relates to a machine for applying indicia, preferably decalcomanias (decals), to felts that form part of tennis balls. A stack of the felts is placed in the machine, and a destacking mechanism separates each felt from the stack and places ... | 09/01/1981 |
| 4202541 | Suction feed table Sheet feeding equipment is provided with suction means to assist a mechanical feeder that engages the trailing edge of the bottom blank in a stack and drives this bottom blank forward through a feed slot formed between a front gauge at the front of the st... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4201118 | Machine for manipulating a collapsed basket style carton into set-up condition and for adhering end flaps to end panels at each end of the carton A reciprocable feeder arm (10) includes a projecting portion (12) for engaging an edge of a collapsed carton (C) in a hopper (1) and with the aid of a suction cup (13) removes the collapsed carton (C) from the hopper (1) and into a position adjacent but s... | 05/06/1980 |
| 4181298 | Device for synchronized introduction of sheets into a treatment machine In a device for the synchronized introduction of sheets into a treatment machine, e.g. a printer-slotter or cutter for processing corrugated cardboard sheets, in which a reciprocating pusher pushes forward the lowermost sheet of a stack in a magazine betw... | 01/01/1980 |
| 4179113 | Apparatus for feeding leaflets to rapidly moving articles There is described apparatus for selectively feeding leaflets or the like from a stack into or onto rapidly moving articles such as open packages, which apparatus employs a reciprocable vacuum head which removes the leaflets seriatem from the stack and pl... | 12/18/1979 |
| 4134579 | Card inserter for binding machine or the like A card inserter for inserting post cards in a series of bound volumes in motion in a production line which includes a pair of horizontally reciprocated feed plates and associated hoppers arranged on opposite sides of a substantially vertical feed plane. A... | 01/16/1979 |
| 4072306 | Sheet feed apparatus Disclosed is a sheet feed apparatus suitable for feeding an original into a copying machine at an intake position and through the machine past an exposure station, the apparatus comprising a rotary support having a surface for supporting the original, mea... | 02/07/1978 |
| 4059263 | Vacuum feed Apparatus for feeding corrugated blanks to processing machinery which comprises roller members mounted above a vacuum chamber which enables each advancing blank to be held flat while minimizing friction between the advancing blank and the feed bed compris... | 11/22/1977 |
| 4011708 | Bag handling apparatus Apparatus is described for facilitating the filling and sealing of bags for shipping or mailing. The bag supply preferably is in web or strip form, i.e. the bags are joined along successive closed sides of the bags to form a continuous web with the bag bo... | 03/15/1977 |
| 4009876 | Sheet feeding mechanism A mechanism for feeding blanks of corrugated cardboard and the like into a printing and container forming machine. The feeding mechanism includes a perforated suction head for moving individual sheets from a stack of sheets into the machine. The suction h... | 03/01/1977 |
| 4008889 | Vacuum feed mechanism A pneumatically operated mechanism for feeding envelopes or other similar stacked articles from a stacked position into a second position where stamping, gluing or the like may be performed. The feed mechanism includes a pneumatic cylinder having a fixed ... | 02/22/1977 |
