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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7419154 | Feeder device having adjustably flexible gate apparatus and associated method A feeder device for feeding a unit of media from a stack of media to a receiving apparatus is provided. The feeder device comprises a drive mechanism for driving the media in a feed direction through an opening defined by a gate apparatus. The opening extends from a... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7367554 | Member for preventing feeding of a plurality of sheets at a time A member for preventing feeding of a plurality of sheets at a time including a composition containing a resin component. Not less than 10 parts by mass nor more than 100 parts by mass of a polyester thermoplastic elastomer is contained in 100 parts by mass of the re... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7303188 | Document separator A document separator for use in a document processing machine. The document separator has a flexible loop of material adjacent to a document transport mechanism so that it holds one or more documents back from being transported along a transport path while allowing ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7108257 | Sheet-supply device A sheet-supply device supplying sheets one at a time from a stack of sheets in a sheet feeding direction. The device includes a slanting plate on which a stack of sheets is mounted. A sheet feed roller is positioned above the slanting plate applying a force to an up... | 09/19/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6978993 | Method and device for rotating a frictional surface in a friction feeder A method and device for facilitating the replacement of a worn out section of a friction roller in a friction feeder with another section. The roller is fixedly mounted on a shaft adjacent to the feeder nip. In operation, the shaft is restricted from turning by a lo... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6971645 | Device for selecting mail items The present invention relates to a selection device for separating one by one, or singulating, the items of a stack of mail items, comprising a support surface, conveying means for driving these mail items over the support surface, a mobile presser plate cooperating... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6969168 | Media loading and separation system for printer A media loading and separation system includes a spring pick block with an inclined surface having a lower end; an indentation, formed near the lower end of the inclined surface, having a substantially vertical surface; and a spring arm movably disposed in response ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6883797 | Swapping feed and separation rollers A sheet feeding system has a pick roller, a first roller, and a second roller. The ends of the first and second rollers are coupled together. The pick roller acquires, or picks, a sheet from a stack of sheets and passes the sheet to the first and second rollers. One... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6758468 | Method of improving retard mechanism in friction feeders A sheet feeder having a driving mechanism to release sheets of document from a stack out of an exit nip, one sheet at a time. A retard mechanism is used to prevent other sheets from being drawn out of the exit nip by the frictional force between the sheets. The reta... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6712351 | Sheet feeding apparatus A sheet feeding apparatus, comprising a pad base, a groove along the central line of the pad base, and a spring embedded in the groove, is disclosed. The top of the spring protrudes above the top surface of base and a series of inclined protrusions are formed at two... | 03/30/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6626298 | High speed bill sorter with parallel data processors Bills are loaded into a hopper, separated and moved one at a time passed authentication sensors and an optical scanner. The sensors include a UV scanner, a magnetic sensor, an infrared scanner and a metallic thread detector. A main transport belt cooperat... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6585251 | Articulating separator A separator includes a housing, a feeder mounted in the housing for feeding documents along a feed path and a retard mechanism mounted in the housing along the feed path and opposite to the feeder. The retard mechanism includes a body and a pad attached t... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6550761 | Integrated paper presser and stopper for automatic paper feeder An automatic paper feeder with an integrated paper presser and stopper is disclosed. The integrated paper presser and stopper includes a fixing section, a paper pressing section downward extended from the fixing section at an inclined angle toward a paper... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6505826 | Device for separating sheets piled up so as to form a stack, in a feeder of a sheet-processing machine A device for separating or singling sheets, which have been piled up to form a stack, in a feeder of a sheet-processing machine, having a transport element with a guide edge, includes a device for matching the shape of the guide edge to the contour of the... | 01/14/2003 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6367795 | Paper feed apparatus The picking roller successively picks a plurality of sheets of paper stacked on the shooter from the bottom of the paper stack. The gate extends substantially perpendicular to a paper transport direction and forms a predetermined clearance between the pic... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6338480 | Sheet feeding device for an image forming apparatus A sheet feeding device for an image forming apparatus includes a plurality of separator pads each having a particular coefficient of friction with respect to sheets for separating the sheets one by one. An automatic switching mechanism automatically repla... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6158733 | Sheet feeder for feeding sheets of different rigidity A sheet feeder includes a support plate inclined backward and a feed roller for feeding one by one the sheets of paper stacked on the plate. A first support surface and a second support surface are formed at or near the bottom of the plate to support the ... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6152442 | Sheet separating and conveying apparatus having friction releasing device to separate convey and friction means The present invention provides a sheet separating and conveying apparatus for separating stacked sheets and for conveying a separated sheet, comprises a sheet convey means for conveying the sheet, a friction means disposed in a confronting relation to the... | 11/28/2000 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5923441 | Image record apparatus A printer which records an image on a cut paper sheet must normally assure a margin region at the trailing end side of a record paper sheet in terms of the mechanism of the printer. Conventionally, the margin has a considerably large size. However, this i... | 07/13/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5553841 | Device for preventing multiple removal of printing material from a sheet pile Device for preventing removal of more sheets than a single sheet from the surface of a sheet pile includes fingers distributed on a front stop in vicinity of the surface of the sheet pile along a front side of the sheet pile for separating the sheets in a... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5453852 | Paper feed roller structure for image reading apparatus A paper feed roller (5) is divided into a first roller (5a) and a second roller (5b); a slit (58) through which about 10 to 20 sheets of documents can pass is formed between the first roller and a gate plate (57) opposite to this; and the paper fed out th... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5190277 | Sheet separation device A sheet separation device has a sheet separation member for contacting and feeding the outside sheet from a stack of sheets. The sheet separation member can be a belt, roller or pad and includes a relatively hard support covered by a thin layer of RTV sil... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5123640 | Feeder table utilizing side and front edge aligners A device for correcting lateral alignment of a workpiece removed from a pile of workpiece prior to being fed into a processing machine. The device includes at least two pairs of rollers spaced along the direction of movement of the sheet, with each pair o... | 06/23/1992 |
| 5110402 | Labelling machine for labelling containers such as bottles having a labelling box for a stack of labels in a labelling station This invention relates to a label box for a label stack in a labelling station. The label box has a front part, which is designed as a slide which can move forward and backward in relation to the other part. If a label is not to be extracted from the stac... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5097636 | Edge belt sander with swingable dust hood A swingable dust hood is provided for use in the dust removal system of an endless belt type working machine. The dust hood has a jet air cleaner positioned on an inner wall which blows dust and other particles off the workpiece for exhaust via an outlet ... | 03/24/1992 |
| 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 |
| 5050852 | Blank feeder and method for controlling the same A blank feeder for feeding blanks. It has a feed table on which a plurality of blanks are stacked, a suction unit provided under the table to suck the lowermost one of the stack downward, a motor-driven first feed rolls mounted in the suction unit and ada... | 09/24/1991 |
| 4919413 | Newspaper handling and collating method and apparatus Each interfaced loader and metering hopper combination of a newspaper assembling system includes improvements for producing ridges in the newspapers at various states where separation of the newspapers from one another is required. The ridges enhance sepa... | 04/24/1990 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 4568074 | Automatic sheet feeding apparatus An automatic sheet feeding apparatus permits a choice between an automatic feed mode in which sheets disposed in a stack on a sheet receiving table can be sequentially separated and fed one by one from the bottom of the stack, and a manual feed mode in wh... | 02/04/1986 |
| 4463874 | Vending machine having card moving fingers A dispenser for a stack of horizontally disposed, rectangular cards or the like and a product vending machine incorporating the dispenser. The dispenser features a magazine for the stack of cards and a dispensing chute beneath the magazine. Between the ma... | 08/07/1984 |
