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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7182330 | Intelligent autonomous sheet feeder for the infeed of a printer Disclosed herein is a sheet feeder for a printer. The sheet feeding device feeds a single sheet into an infeeder of a printer without communicating with the printer. The sheet feeder is equipped with a sensor for detecting when the printer is able to accept a sheet.... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7172116 | Automatic dispensing machine of cards and card like goods Dispensing more than one card or card like good is prevented to prevent issuing a duplicate with an automatic dispensing machine of card or card like good having a table which supports the piled up card or card like good. A sucking device is located over the table a... | 02/06/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6966554 | Apparatus for scanning bank checks, with an improved check feed device The scanner apparatus has a feed device for picking up checks from an input receptacle and transferring them to a conveyor mechanism which conveys the checks through the interior of the apparatus. A feed plate resiliently urges a bundle of checks in the receptacle t... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6945524 | Card singularization gate A card singularization gate for use in an identification card printer includes a roller support, a guide roller, and a card stop. The roller support is positioned between a card feeder and the card transport mechanism. The guide roller is supported by the roller sup... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6932527 | Card cartridge A card cartridge includes a housing having a pair of opposing side walls, a top, a front wall, a back wall opposite the front wall, and a base. The housing includes an interior cavity that is sized to accommodate a stack of cards, a card access, and a card output sl... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6929261 | Feed roller mechanism An apparatus for transporting a sheet comprising: a first roller; a second roller; and an assembly for mounting the second roller for movement between a position spaced from the first roller and a position engaging the first roller for transporting a sheet; wherein ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6918584 | Intelligent autonomous sheet feeder for the infeed of a printer Disclosed herein is a sheet feeder for a printer. The sheet feeding device feeds a single sheet into an infeeder of a printer without communicating with the printer. The sheet feeder is equipped with a sensor for detecting when the printer is able to accept a sheet.... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6758470 | Card thickness selection gate for a card feeder A card hopper for holding a stack of identification cards that are to be printed or in other ways processed has an outlet opening on one end through which the cards are fed. The outlet opening is adjustable in size to accommodate cards of different thicknesses by us... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6705605 | Methods of and apparatus for feeding sheets of material An apparatus for feeding sheets of material, such as paper, sequentially from the bottom of a stack of sheets comprises a suction chamber, a perforated belt movable over the suction chamber, a sheet restraining gate above the downstream end of the suction chamber, a... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6598870 | Document conveying apparatus and image-forming machine A document conveying apparatus comprising a document conveying passage and a pair of document introduction rollers disposed at a document insertion portion, and a copier equipped with the document conveying apparatus. A cover frame is pivotably supported ... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6536758 | Card hopper A card hopper includes a control gate that reliably allows cards of varying thicknesses to be fed individually through an outlet opening without adjustment. The hopper is configured to hold a stack of plastic cards or similar, fairly rigid, substrates. Th... | 03/25/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6308949 | Material-feeding device having direction-correcting function A material-feeding device (14) includes a base (52), a material passage (54) formed on the base, at least one guide member (56, 58) provided in the material passage and having a material-guide surface (56a, 58a), a direction-correcting roller assembly (60... | 10/30/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6193230 | Card output gap adjustment mechanism for a card stacker A card output gap adjustment mechanism installed in the casing of a card stacker and controlled to adjust a card output gap through which cards are individually driven out of the casing by a transmission mechanism, the card output gap adjustment mechanism... | 02/27/2001 |
| 5778632 | Hopper assembly for literature feeder system A hopper assembly for feeding literature to a literature dispenser. The literature dispenser and a label dispenser are positioned on opposite sides of a conveyor on which products being furnished with literature and labels are transported. The hopper asse... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5699147 | Paper magazine A paper magazine including a magazine main body in which a photosensitive material is accommodated; a guide member for guiding the photosensitive material to a magazine opening through which the photosensitive material is delivered out to an exterior; at ... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5565959 | Paper magazine A paper magazine including a magazine main body in which a photosensitive material is accommodated; a guide member for guiding the photosensitive material to a magazine opening through which the photosensitive material is delivered out to an exterior; at ... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5542571 | Dispensing/vending machine and method with double dispensing protection A vending machine for dispensing relatively flat, thin articles, and particularly for dispensing valuable articles such as debit cards and tickets. A blocking bar is mounted adjacent the outlet of the dispensing mechanism and is adjustably but firmly posi... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5538235 | Feeding apparatus An apparatus which uses vacuum to singly feed pieces from a stack. The feeding apparatus has a plate supporting a bottom of the stack and defining a plurality of plate apertures. The plate is connected to a drive mechanism which moves the plate between re... | 07/23/1996 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5409205 | Apparatus and method of feeding paper from the bottom of a stack using a reciprocating separator A paper feeder for a printing and bookbinding system incorporates a top load, bottom feed hopper having a cyclically operated platform for transporting paper signatures from a stack to a conveyor. The platform utilizes spaced supports of a high friction, ... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5364195 | Sheet conveying apparatus with displaceable guide between cassette and feed roller A sheet conveying apparatus includes a sheet accommodating unit for accommodating a plurality of sheets, a sheet feeding unit for feeding sheets from the sheet accommodating unit, separation pawls for individually separating the sheets fed from the sheet ... | 11/15/1994 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 4718808 | Delivery device of piled corrugated fiberboard boxes A delivery device of piled corrugated fiberboard boxes is provided, which comprises a hopper for holding therein corrugated fiberboard boxes in a piled mode, a front sheet receiver and a rear sheet receiver held at a position higher than is the front shee... | 01/12/1988 |
| 4706846 | Tag dispenser A tag container has a dispensing wall and contains a plurality of tags which are stackable in parallel to the dispensing wall. In the top wall of the container is a dispensing opening through which tags may be dispensed from the container by a slider whic... | 11/17/1987 |
| 4653743 | Feeding device This invention provides a sheet feeding device suitable for use as a paper feeding device in an image forming apparatus such as a copying apparatus. The feeding device is provided with a sheet receiving portion for supporting thereon a number of sheets in... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4648772 | Three-knife cutting machine workfeed A three-knife cutting machine for trimming the front side and the head- and foot-side of brochures, books, and the like, in which the products to be trimmed are slidable in stacks with the back side forward from a magazine charged from above downward by c... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4557472 | Multi-purpose feeder for successively delivering single sheet or multi-leaved articles from a stack thereof Friction members, working together as an integral unit, rise up into engagement with the lowermost article in a stack to slightly raise it along the engaged portions thereof above the rest of the device as a forward stroke is commenced, thereby warping th... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4405124 | Tag feed mechanism Apparatus for feeding tags from a tag hopper to a tag attaching station includes a spring biased push member having a notched front end for cooperation with a downwardly inclined shutter at the entry of the tag hopper for engaging the lowermost tag and pu... | 09/20/1983 |
| 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 |
| 4285443 | Card dispensing module A complete advertising and card dispensing module for insertion into a housing, having electrical connections for the module, includes a front face, for securing to the housing by a key lock for removing the entire module, with the front face having an ad... | 08/25/1981 |
| 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 |
| 4131208 | Feed mechanism for carton blanks A feed mechanism for packing material such as carton blanks is disclosed. Blanks are arranged in a hopper where they are stacked between a pair of vertical members having their lower edges spaced above a support table for advancement of the bottommost bla... | 12/26/1978 |
| 4038922 | Apparatus for feeding tags A method and apparatus adapted for processing tags, cards, or the like are disclosed herein. The apparatus preferably comprises a magazine for storing a predetermined quantity of tags and an associated slotted gate, feed dispensing system for automaticall... | 08/02/1977 |
| 3999747 | Record card feeding apparatus Apparatus for feeding data processing record cards seriatim from the bottom of a stack to a data sensing station or the like including a pair of oscillating picker members for displacing a record card from the bottom of the stack, and a pair of sector rol... | 12/28/1976 |
