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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7290952 | Recording apparatus with a slidably accommodated discharge tray The invention provides the recording apparatus, which has excellent operability of drawing and retracting the sheet discharge tray and excellent design in accommodating the sheet discharge tray and includes a sheet discharge mechanism having an advantage for miniatu... | 11/06/2007 |
| 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 |
| 6826383 | Sheet size detection apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet size detection apparatus including, a sheet stacking device on which sheets are stacked and which can be loaded into and unloaded from a loading portion, a sheet size selection member provided on the sheet stacking device, a position of the sheet size select... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6390461 | Insert hopper and method for improving the operation thereof An improved insert hopper for use in conjunction with the insert feeding device of a document handling apparatus such as a mail insertion machine. The insert hopper includes a support deck, a front registration member, and a backstop member. A bottom supp... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6364309 | Sheet accommodating device A sheet accommodating device is provided which always performs stable sheet feeding in accordance with sizes of sheets or the number of sheets to be stacked. A holder member that is movable back and forth supports a sheet pressing plate near the center of... | 04/02/2002 |
| 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 |
| 5338019 | Reciprocating sheet feeder apparatus for box blank fabrication equipment having an adjustable pusher element Box blank-forming apparatus (60) is provided which includes a feeder assembly (62) and a scoring/slotting assembly (64) each provided with adjustment structure (62a, 64a) to facilitate makeready adjustment of the apparatus (60) between production runs. Th... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5273270 | Driving device for a plate-shaped body feeding kicker In a driving device for a plate-shaped body feeding kicker, a durability of a slide section is improved and mixing of paper powder onto a slide surface can be prevented by supporting a rear end of a screw shaft for moving the kicker by use of a block enco... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5246222 | Adjustable slotter wheel and sheet feeder retrofit apparatus for box blank making machines Box blank-forming apparatus (60) is provided which includes a feeder assembly (62) and a scoring/slotting assembly (64) each provided with adjustment structure (62a, 64a) to facilitate makeready adjustment of the apparatus (60) between production runs. Th... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5151075 | Carton folding apparatus A carton folding apparatus which is characterized by multiple folder/gluer modules, including a feed module for receiving and delivering unfolded cartons, prefold/fold, fold and final fold modules for effecting specified folding and gluing operations, a d... | 09/29/1992 |
| 5104111 | Sheet feed arrangement A sheet feed arrangement is provided in an image forming apparatus such as a printer or the like and is comprised of a sheet cassette for accommodating a plurality of sheet materials, a lifting mechanism disposed below the sheet cassette for lifting end p... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5074432 | Card dispensing device A card dispensing mechanism for an automatic card dispensing machine is provided with adjustable walls for storing cards of different lengths and interchangeable card ejecting device which can be selected to dispense cards of a preselected length. The car... | 12/24/1991 |
| 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 |
| 4708468 | Self adjusting paper guide An integral removable duplex module for use in conjunction with a reproduction processor is disclosed including two paper trays, a first operable as a duplex copy buffer tray or a paper tray and a second operable as an auxiliary paper tray, each tray havi... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4585218 | Mechanism for feeding similar flat items in succession from a stack thereof Improvements result from using a feed roller always rotating at a constant surface speed to feed mail items successively with gaps between them from a stack to a franking machine without undue variations in the gap lengths when there are variations in the... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4580772 | Hopper and feeder apparatus and method An envelope hopper (20) is capable of selectively handling stacks of short envelopes (SE), stacks of long envelopes (LE), or stacks of envelopes of intermediate dimensions. The envelope stack rests on a table frame (26) in such a manner that at least a po... | 04/08/1986 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 4214745 | Safety guard for sheet feeding mechanisms Disclosed is an improved safety guard for use with sheet feeding mechanisms which is disposed between the feeding mechanism and the exposed feed roll nip of a mechanism for the processing of the sheet material. The safety guard includes a non-rigid, non-e... | 07/29/1980 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 3994489 | Rolling vacuum feed table A method of, and apparatus for, feeding corrugated blanks from a stack in which the lowermost blank is advanced to processing machinery on a feed bed which comprises rollers mounted above a vacuum source in such manner as to enable the advancing blank to ... | 11/30/1976 |
