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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6659448 | Adjustable separator for a sheet separating device An apparatus for separating flat products from a pile of flat products, the apparatus including a support and at least one separator for separating a product from a pile of products. The separator is movable with respect to the support and includes a curv... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6616137 | Adjustable needles for a sheet separating device An apparatus for separating a flat product from a pile of flat products includes at least two needles arranged in at least one needle group on a respective needle block. The needle blocks and needle groups are movable from a closing position to an opening... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6585257 | Sheet feeder with counteracting forces A method and apparatus for reducing burden in retrieving sheets of material from the bottom of a substantially vertical stack of sheets in a sheet feeder. The apparatus comprises a first convex surface at the bottom half of the stack protruding into one s... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6422554 | Document feeder with pivoted lever A document feeder employs a lifting lever to lift stacked documents away from a feed roller each time a document is being fed away from the stack. In this way the separation of documents is enhanced, providing a mechanism that more readily accommodates do... | 07/23/2002 |
| 5713187 | Packaging apparatus A boxing apparatus having a substantially horizontal conveyor feeds overlapping folded boxes into a upright gravity fed hopper with a bottom gate portion. The boxes are generally aligned axially in the hopper on the gate portion to be individually removed... | 02/03/1998 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5067702 | Dispenser for dispensing sheets of an alternating first and second kind from a stack An apparatus for successively removing stacked sheets, such as stimulable phosphor sheets used in electron microscopy, from a housing. The stack consists of alternate layers of a first kind and a second kind of sheets. Each sheet of the first kind has a f... | 11/26/1991 |
| 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 |
| 4787619 | Sheet feed bench with blower jets and a method of removing sheets from a stack In a sheet feed bench with two parallel sheet feed rails that are adjustable relative to one another and with each having blowing jets on their surfaces facing one another directly above the level of the bench, connected to a common source of compressed a... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4728096 | Compact apparatus for dispensing a preselected mix of paper currency or the like A sheet dispenser for selectively dispensing predetermined numbers of sheets, for example, paper currency of different denominations and having plural input stations each receiving a stack of each bill denomination. A feed roller at each station has a hig... | 03/01/1988 |
| 4699371 | Sheet feeder A sheet feeder includes a supply tray from which the paper sheets are individually withdrawn from the bottom of the stack. The stack supporting bottom of the tray is inclined relative to a horizontal plane, its angle of inclination being adjustable. The i... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4637600 | Label separator This relates to a label separator which is operative to separate a foremost label from a stack of labels in advance of such label being picked by a picker so as to assure that only one label is picked at a time and that the other labels in a stack of labe... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4592634 | Apparatus to separate a single sheet from a stack of several similar sheets Disclosed is an apparatus for separating a single sheet from a stack of several sheets having the same non-round shape and the same size. The apparatus comprises a container with a recess for holding the stack, a base located underneath the container havi... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4396336 | Apparatus for feeding lifts of limp sheets A sheet magazine supports a stack of limp flexible sheets. The magazine has a bottom with a slot formed therethrough and spaced opposite first and second ends with an end feed gateway at the first end. A mechanical sheet separating and segregating device ... | 08/02/1983 |
| 4363478 | Method and apparatus of feeding corrugated boards The corrugated boards contained in a hopper are individually kicked out onto conveyor belts on which each board firmly sticks thereto under suction from below, and are fed to a subsequent processing station, such as a printing station, thereby enabling th... | 12/14/1982 |
| 4214740 | Sheet reversing mechanism A sheet reversing mechanism having drive rolls independently activated for driving sheets into and out of a sheet reversing station at different rates. A first shaft supports a drive roll engaging an idler roll supported on a second shaft and a drive roll... | 07/29/1980 |
| 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 |
| 4010944 | Blank feeding device having an adjustable and automatic positioning backstop means A blank feeding device for feeding successive bottom blanks from a stack of blanks into adjacent processing machinery includes a feed table for supporting the stack of blanks thereon; a gate spaced above the feed table and defining an opening therebetween... | 03/08/1977 |
| 3949980 | Metering means for blanks A machine for handling corrugated paper blanks and the like is shown having an adjustable back stop means to cooperate with infeed means to regulate the flow of blanks going into the machine to be processed to ensure proper feeding of the blanks serially ... | 04/13/1976 |
