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...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8096549 | Image generating apparatus In an image generating apparatus, a push-up member for pushing up a paper and bringing the same into contact with a paper feed roller includes a first push-up member, a second push-up member and a torsion coil spring, a second engaging portion of the second push-up ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8074979 | Sheet feed tray and image forming apparatus A sheet feeding tray includes a frame member, and freely upwardly swingable plural bottom plates arranged on the frame member side by side perpendicular to a sheet feeding direction. The bottom plates cooperatively support a stack of envelope recording mediums. A li... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8052140 | Adjustable feeder/delivery board for printing press A feeder/delivery board (81) includes a generally planar platform (83) made of a flexible material, and a plurality of legs (84) attached to the platform and extending downwardly for supporting the board on a printing press table (80a | 11/08/2011 |
| 7766320 | Media handling system for maintaining stack top within given range of pick positions during feeding sheets from stack top A media handling system includes a platform, a bin supporting the platform below and for undergoing movement toward and away from a sheet feeding position, a first motion transmitting assembly coupled between the platform and bin and tailored to counterbalance the w... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7758041 | Clutch apparatus, conveyance apparatus and recording apparatus [Object] To provide a clutch apparatus that can smoothly switch from a clutch engaged state to a clutch non-engaged state, while tooth jump does not occur even with a small-sized clutch apparatus. [Solving Means] A recessed portion 153 is provided in a... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7748700 | Sheet feeding device with governing, elevating, and restraining tilting-tray parts Sheet feeding device including: a tray unit having a feeding tray for supporting a loaded-on document's trailing end, and a tilting tray for supporting its leading end; a feeding unit that feeds loaded-on documents from off the feeding and tilting trays; and an elev... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7686293 | Spring-assisted print media feeder apparatus A print media feeder apparatus suitable for use in an image-forming device is provided. The apparatus comprises an elevator tray holding a stack of print media connected to a housing by a transmission system. The housing comprises a hoist drum that is connected to o... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7441767 | Sheet feeder with stacking member lifted by planetary gear system To reduce the number of components and further to provide a downsized sheet feeder, a shaft is arranged to a lower side of a sheet receiver stacking sheets, and gears are respectively attached to each opposite end of the shaft to mesh with rack portions. The gears m... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7410162 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus has a chassis, a paper feed roller, a lifting member, and a biasing member. The chassis has a first side surface, a second side surface, and a bottom surface that connects the first and second side surfaces. The bottom surface has one of a... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7396174 | Recording medium supply device and image forming device A coil spring 103 is wound around a rotational shaft 15 with its one end portion 103a being inserted into an engagement groove 100a formed in a side wall of a direct-coupled gear 100 and with its other end portion ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7357388 | Image forming apparatus with recording medium support member adjustable in position for desired position of uppermost recording medium on support member An apparatus for forming an image on a recording medium is disclosed which includes: a first drive source; a photoreceptor driven for movement by a driving force applied thereto from the first drive source; a support member supporting the recording medium to be fed ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7334789 | Printed sheets stacking tray with automatic alternate stacking support and manual stack lifting assistance In a sheet stacking and unloading system in which sheets are stacked on a stacking tray which is then moved from its sheet stacking position to an unloading position for removing the sheet stack from the stacking tray, and the stacking tray has a sheet stacking surf... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7309005 | ATM cassette adjustable to hold different sized currency An ATM currency cassette is adjustable to hold currency of different heights. An assembly is removably connected to the inside of the cassette lid. With the lid in the closed position the currency is maintained in a proper position by the assembly. The assembly is a... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7281873 | Sheet package with identification mark and printer using the same Print sheets 7 stacked up are inserted into a package member 8 so that the sheets 7 in this state can be set in a printer together with the package member 8. The package member 8 is provided with an identification mark 31 wh... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7264238 | Feed paper apparatus A paper feed has a door and a paper carrying tray, and raises the tray as paper is fed. A first detector that detects the presence of paper is located below a paper feed position by a margin corresponding to a given number of paper sheets, and second detector that d... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7249761 | ATM currency presenter gate arrangement An ATM includes a currency note dispenser having a currency cassette, a note picker, a note transporter, and a note presenter. A cassette tambour door automatically opens during insertion of the cassette into the dispenser. The picker can pick notes through the open... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7249762 | System for feeding and transporting documents A system for feeding and transporting documents includes a feeder stage and a transport stage. The feeder stage includes a feeder and a hopper assembly. The hopper floor carries the document stack, and includes a flag providing a force to move the documents along th... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7222847 | Feeding apparatus and recording apparatus having the same The feeding apparatus includes a pressure plate cam gear which contacts and separates a pressure plate with and from a feeding roller rubber in a forward rotation of a stepping motor, then interrupts the drive power transmission to the pressure plate, then transmits... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7188835 | Sheet feeding apparatus for image forming device A sheet feeding apparatus for an image forming device prevents a sheet jammed in a pickup roller from being damaged when a sheet feeding cassette is separated to remove the jammed sheet. The sheet feeding apparatus for the image forming device includes a sheet feedi... | 03/13/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7167674 | Sheet storage cassette and image forming apparatus A sheet storage cassette includes: a case provided with a storage portion; a stacking plate on which a sheet is placed; and a lifting unit that lifts the stacking plate. The lifting unit has: a driving gear that communicates with an output gear of the device main bo... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7165766 | Sheet feeding cassette and image forming apparatus A sheet feeding cassette is configured so as to be able to be attached to and removed from an image forming apparatus main body having an image forming section and is equipped with a box-shaped accommodation portion capable of accommodating a plurality of sheets. A ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7163098 | Variable-capacity FIFO store with an expulsion station A variable-capacity FIFO store having a powered endless conveyor belt defining a conveying branch for transferring a mass of articles from an input station to an output station, and a return branch extending from the output station to the input station; and an adjus... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7163286 | Recording sheet containing package The invention provides a recording sheet containing package containing a recording sheet to be used in a recording apparatus, achieving convenient handling by the user, being inexpensive, realizable light-weight and compact for easy carrying and easily disposed afte... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7140795 | Printer The printer can improve the workability of storing and ejecting printing sheets in or from a storage tray. The printer includes a storage tray comprising a sheet storage case for storing a stack of a plurality of printing sheets with at least one of the sides of the... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7100915 | Paper feeding apparatus of image forming device A paper feeding apparatus of an image forming device having a feeder opening and closing unit to automatically rotate a paper feeder between a storing position and a paper feeding-standby position selectively employing a driving source driving a transporting unit wi... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7093737 | Container and cartridge for dispensing paper products The present invention provides a container for dispensing individual paper products that includes a housing, a cover hingedly or removably attached to the housing wherein the cover defines a dispensing opening, a means for elevating paper products, and a plunger dis... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7025346 | System and related methods for automatically determining the media count in a printing device media tray A system for determining the amount of media available to a printing device is presented. The system comprises a sensor and a disc containing one or more visual cues perceptible to the sensor. The disc is rotated by a coupled lifting member to lift a media handling ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7025347 | Sheet aligning apparatus A sheet feeding apparatus in which after a bundle of sheets is placed in an erect posture on a sheet supporting stand, the bundle of sheets placed on the sheet supporting stand is continuously vibrated upward and downward for a predetermined time, and is moved in a ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6997377 | ATM cassette with self-locking media directing guide An ATM media cassette includes a self-locking arrangement for a media directing guide. The guide is automatically placed in a locked condition during removal of the cassette from an ATM. The guide is automatically unlocked during reinsertion of the cassette into the... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6994483 | Paper supply cassette of printer A paper supply cassette includes a main body to which a paper supply roller is coupled, a container provided to slid e into/from the main body, a first lever installed at the main body to swing, a first gear installed at one side of the first lever to rotate and dri... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6981698 | Automatic dispensing machine of substantially flat goods An automatic dispensing machine of substantially flat goods is provided which detects the over-dispensing of goods while accommodating for varying thickness of the substantially flat goods. The automatic dispensing machine includes a table which supports goods such ... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6976634 | ATM currency cassette with RFID tag An ATM currency cassette includes an RFID tag. The tag includes information about the cassette, such as the cassette serial number and the currency denomination. An ATM includes a tag reader that can interrogate the tag to receive the information. The history of a p... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6948655 | ATM currency cassette with currency-low indicator lock arrangement An ATM currency cassette includes a currency-low indicator mechanism. The indicator mechanism can be held in a locked position during cassette handling and transport. The indicator mechanism can be automatically locked during removal of the cassette from an ATM; aut... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6945527 | High capacity media apparatus and method A high capacity media apparatus and method includes, in a high capacity media device holding large quantities of media, according to one embodiment, a unitary deformable media holder with a bottom, a top, and sides, constructed to separate at preselected locations. ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6938893 | Paper cassette for image forming apparatus A paper cassette for an image forming apparatus includes a cassette body, a pair of aligning plates, paper separating fingers, and a biasing member. The cassette body has a knock-up plate on which paper is stackable. The pair of aligning plates are disposed on the p... | 09/06/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6913258 | Indication structure for paper reserves adapted for auto document feed apparatus An indication structure for paper reserves adapted for auto document feed apparatus includes a housing, a delivered module, a support element, an elasticity element, an indication element and a transparent element; wherein, the indication element includes a transmis... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6913192 | ATM cassette with currency overload prevention An ATM currency cassette with a currency overload prevention arrangement. The cassette includes a currency stack push plate having a flexible arm. The arm becomes flexed by currency pressing against it due to an overloaded condition. The cassette lid includes a rib.... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6840511 | Indication structure for paper reserves adapted for auto document feed apparatus An indication structure for paper reserves adapted for auto document feed apparatus includes a housing, a feed module, a printer module, a support element, an elasticity element, a light source, a shield element and a transparent element; wherein, the shield element... | 01/11/2005 |
