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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7976016 | Medium transferring mechanism and medium processor with medium inserting portion A medium transferring mechanism that includes a medium inserting portion into which a sheet medium is inserted, the medium inserting portion defined by a bottom face and by a first side face and a second side face which extend from the bottom face and are opposed to... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7823873 | Paper feeding device for shredder A paper feeding device is mounted in a shredder and has a casing, and a pushing assembly and a feeding assembly mounted in the casing. When a stack of paper is put into the paper feeding device, the pushing assembly pushes the paper forward and the feeding assembly ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7793929 | Method and apparatus for magazine pressure control A magazine pressure control is provided with pressure control wheels that are designed to regulate pressure on carton blanks being fed to a folder/gluer in a carton forming operation. These wheels are disposed around the periphery of the carton blank to urge the edg... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7591462 | Media transfer method and apparatus for automatic media dispenser A media transfer method and apparatus enable media to be separated and discharged out of a media cassette of a media dispenser with a uniform transfer interval. The media transfer apparatus includes a pickup roller in contact with media waiting to be discharged, so ... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7520501 | Media cassette for media dispenser A media cassette for a media dispenser includes a cassette body which includes a storage space in which media are filled and a discharging opening through which the media are discharged. A door selectively opens and closes the discharging opening. A solenoid and loc... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7467792 | Anti-toppling device for mail with retractable protrusion A mail destacker is provided that includes a destacker plate and a retractable protrusion that can move between an article erecting position and a retracted position. ... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7427063 | Shingle media item feed tray with spring loaded self locking sled A media item feed tray with an exit area for media items includes a sled moveable toward and away from the feed tray exit area. A biasing surface is mounted to the tray and extends away from the feed tray exit area. A spring member is mounted on the moveable sled an... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7404554 | Method and apparatus for magazine pressure control A magazine pressure control is provided with pressure control wheels that are designed to regulate pressure on carton blanks being fed to a folder/gluer in a carton forming operation. These wheels are disposed around the periphery of the carton blank to urge the edg... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7396010 | Take-out apparatus A sheet take-out apparatus has a stacker that houses sheets in the stacked state, a take-out roller for taking out sheets by rotating in contact with a sheet at one end in the stacking direction of housed sheets, and sensors for detecting a contact pressure of the t... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7367557 | Sheet material feeding apparatus A sheet material feeding apparatus includes a feed-out device that brings the stacked sheet materials conveyed on a floor belt into contact with a pickup roller and feeds the sheet materials out in a direction crossing the conveying direction of the stacked sheet ma... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7328897 | Card printer and method of printing on cards A compact system adapted for card imaging, card laminating, or other card processing, comprises a card processor positioned on a horizontal card feed path and configured to process one or both faces of a rectangular card such as a plastic credit or debit card. A car... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7258337 | Flag block for a document feeding system A system for feeding and transporting documents includes a feeder stage and a transport stage. Documents are fed singly, in order, from a stack of documents in a hopper assembly. A flag/flag block arrangement provides a force to move the documents along the hopper f... | 08/21/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7237773 | System for feeding and transporting documents A system for feeding and transporting documents includes a feeder stage and a transport stage. The hopper assembly includes a hopper floor that carries the document stack and a flag that provides a force to move the documents along the hopper floor toward the feeder... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7207560 | Pile compartment for flat postal articles The invention relates to a pile compartment for flat postal articles placed in an upright position, comprising a pile compartment bottom (7) and a pile compartment wall (6) perpendicular thereto. The postal articles (1) inside the pile compartme... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7195236 | Automated induction systems and methods for mail and/or other objects In some embodiments, a system for automated loading of a side-by-side stack of thin objects to a feeder is provided. The system can include, e.g.: a) a transporter having a transport surface upon which a side-by-side stack of thin objects can be conveyed; b) a carri... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7156605 | Substrate transport and marking assembly An apparatus for transporting and marking a substrate, such as a collapsed corrugated cardboard carton. A feeder station is configured to receive a substantially vertically aligned stack of substrates. An advancement assembly of the feeder station successively moves... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7077397 | High capacity document sheet processor A high capacity document sheet processor combines significant speed and efficiency enhancing improvements in existing approaches to stack feeding particularly in the stack loading, feeding and singulating functions with novel operational arrangements adaptable to a ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7004709 | Bin for library articles and automatic unloading system therefor A bin for library articles and an automatic unloading system therefor includes a bin housing having a chamber defined by an uppermost housing plane and by opposing walls. A floor within the chamber has a top and bottom surfaces, and a plurality of cable apertures. A... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7000541 | System and method for interleaf sheet and/or plate sheet removal and/or transport for use with a printing apparatus The present invention relates generally to systems and methods that remove an interleaf sheet interposed between plate sheets from a material stack used, for example, in a computer-to-plate imaging system and/or environment. Embodiments of the system and method can ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6971980 | Machine for spreading out cardboard boxes automatically A machine is provided for spreading out cardboard boxes automatically, which is structured such that cardboards can be held in a holding mechanism upright and closely side by side, and fed to a main body one after another, and which have sucking disks for drawing th... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6905661 | System for sanitizing and sorting mail A mailpiece sorting apparatus is described which includes a feeder, an OCR scanner, a mailpiece transporter, a sanitizer and compartments or bins for receiving sorted mailpieces, an optical character recognition system (OCR) for reading addressee information, an add... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6896255 | Sheet extracting device with a cassette for receiving a stack of sheets The invention relates to a cassette for receiving a stack of sheets, with a pressing element which bears against a first end face of the stack of sheets and is movable in the pressing direction, with a drive motor for displacing the pressing element so that a second... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6869072 | Device and a method for feeding packaging blanks A device for feeding packaging blanks (3) to a packaging machine has a magazine with two shafts (7) mounted at the bottom for supporting the blanks (3). The shafts (7) are brought to rotate at constant speed in opposite directions to each... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6805343 | Bill handling machine for determining amount of bills in storage boxes A bill handling machine in which information of each of storing boxes installed therein is acquired and is reported to the operator includes a unit by which an amount of bills stored in each storing box set to the bill handling machine can be calculated by the stori... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6793214 | Device for subdividing stacks The present invention relates to an apparatus for dividing a stack of items. The items may comprise mail pieces. The apparatus comprises at least one supporting finger which extends through an opening within a base. The base supports the items which stand thereon an... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6749193 | Device and method for loading the input unit of a letter sorting system The invention relates to a device and a method for loading the input unit of a letter sorting system with letters that are stood on their edges. The device comprises of at least one stack receiving device which is located on a carriage and which can receive a stack ... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6722486 | Bill handling machine The bill input/output part has a movable pusher plate and a front plate and a partition plate movable between the pusher plate and the front plate to store bills, which are to be returned or paid, between the pusher plate and the partition plate, and also includes a... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6679489 | Multiple insert delivery systems and methods The system is designed to provide a transport system with specified sheet-like material at a requested time. The system includes insert towers that provide the requested material at the appropriate time. Each insert tower contains multiple insert hoppers ... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6644649 | Destacking device with thickness based feedback control A device (1) for removing flat objects from a stack includes a magazine (2), in which flat objects are stacked on edge to be serialized, and a vertical destacking plate (6) disposed directly in front of the magazine (2) and against which the first object ... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6629691 | Paper-leaves conveying apparatus In a paper-leaves conveying means for conveying a plurality of paper leaves, set together in a bundle in a depositing section, toward a paper-leaves feeding position where a separating/supplying belt exists, an arm is provided which is designed to be move... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6585249 | Low friction article feeding system A flat article hopper having a plurality of bottom rods to form a supporting surface for supporting a stack of flat articles and a paddle to push the flat articles towards a flat article feeder at the downstream end. A scrub wheel is rotatably mounted on ... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6533261 | Bill receiving/dispensing box To provide actions for stably holding, storing and discharging bills in a state, in which many sheets of bills are stored or in a state, in which bills are folded or broken due to a condition of circulation or not only Japanese Yen bills but also foreign ... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6474637 | Adaptive flag weight for document handling apparatus An arrangement for adaptively driving the flag element of a document-handling device, such as a document sorter. The rotation of a first cam exerts a first force on the flag element. The profile of the first cam is such that the first force exerted on the... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6467768 | Method and apparatus for conveying generally flat articles The method and apparatus for delivering generally flat articles one by one make use of first and second conveyors. The first conveyor has a top article-supporting surface operated at a first linear speed in a forward direction. In operation, a stack of ge... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6454253 | Document feeder nudger belt friction force control A method for controlling and adjusting nudger drive friction force. The nudger drive friction force is measured and compared with a desired nudger belt friction force term needed for reliable feeding. Cable drum motor torque is responsively adjusted to ob... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6447435 | Top load, top feed article magazine A blank feeder includes a blank stack with blanks inclined forwardly in a magazine section and rearwardly in a discharge section so the stack has two effective top ends, one for supply and one for feeding. Blank inclination is reversed intermediate the st... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6439568 | Remote sheet advance device and method A sheet advance device has a transport device for transporting a stack of sheets in a first direction, a feed finger located in the path of the stack of sheets for contacting the stack of sheets, a sensor for detecting a movement of the feed finger; and a... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6425579 | Low friction envelope feeder An envelope hopper having a plurality of bottom rods to form a supporting surface for supporting a stack of envelopes and a paddle to push the envelopes towards an envelope feeder at the downstream end. A scrub wheel is rotatably mounted on a fixed, rotat... | 07/30/2002 |
