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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7871069 | Sheet roller Disclosed is a sheet roller capable of achieving compactness and thinness, and improves space usability and design freedom. The sheet roller includes a roller body coupled with the rotation shaft, a plurality of coupling members coupled with a side surface of the ro... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7621526 | Apparatus for stacking individual sheets The invention relates to an individual-sheet stacking apparatus including a frame, a support which is displaceably guided at the frame and which is fitted with a rest surface for the individual sheet stack and having a pressurizing spindle to alternatingly shift and... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7513498 | Processing sheet media A method of processing sheet media is provided. The method may include moving a sheet medium upward by contact of a face of the sheet medium with a roller. The method also may include carrying a trailing edge of the sheet medium upward and then over the roller. ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7396011 | Progressive modularity assortment system with high and low capacity bins A modular bin or pocket has an integrated transport assembly and mail piece diverter assembly and is usable in a bin stacker section in mail handling and sorting systems. The modular bin is individually removable, interchangeable and replaceable from the bin stacker... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7344134 | Large envelope on-edge stacking conveyor A stacking apparatus for stacking a plurality of flat articles on edge is provided that receives articles in an article receiver that includes a stop wall to receive the front edge of each article and stop horizontal motion of the article and a rotatable segmented r... | 03/18/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7261236 | Automated banking machine which dispenses, receives and stores notes and other financial instrument sheets An ATM (10) includes a housing (46) including a generally L-shaped chest portion (48) and an upper housing portion (54). The ATM includes a fascia (12) which extends on the outside of a wall (14) and includes a user interfac... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7243914 | Paper gathering and feeding method and device therefor, and rotation member Proposed is a paper gathering and feeding method, a device therefor, and a rotation member acting sufficiently also on any deformed notes at the time of gathering, and at the time of feeding, feeding is not prevented irrespective of the plasticity deformation, and a... | 07/17/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7198262 | Envelope-turning station In the case of an envelope-turning station with a turning cylinder which is oriented parallel to the mail-conveying direction and is equipped with openable and closable jaws on its circumference, it is possible, following charging of the turning-cylinder jaws with h... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7178801 | Accumulating and delivering apparatus for cardboard sheets An apparatus for accumulating and delivering folded cardboard sheets includes at least a pair of stacking bases moveable along a loop including a stacking position for stacking the cardboard sheets on the stacking bases and a delivering position for delivering the p... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7159748 | Stapling device A stapling device (1) with at least two stapling heads (4, 5) attached to a stapling head unit (2) for stapling sheet-like material, in particular paper, cardboard or the like, is provided, wherein the distance between at least two stapling head... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7140796 | Recording apparatus A printer includes: a recording section for recording information on a recording medium; a medium carrying mechanism for carrying the recording medium on which information has been recorded by the recording section; a medium accommodating section extending in a vert... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7029008 | Accumulating device and circulating type bank note depositing and dispensing machine To provide an accumulating device 71 that is capable of securely accumulating sheets or the like P having dimensional differences on the basis of the rear ends in the taking-in direction thereof. The stopper 111a advances from upward to t... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7011302 | Vertical pocket feeder Vertical pocket feeder signature handling equipment which supplies signatures in an on-edge orientation one at a time to bindery equipment. The vertical pocket feeder particularly cooperates with a hopper loader apparatus which transfers and separates individual sig... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6997454 | Paddle and paddle support in on-edge mail stackers An on-edge stacker having a deck surface to support a vertical mail stack, which is allowed to expand from the upstream end to the downstream end. A paddle, movably mounted on a linear support member, is used to support the downstream end of the mail stack. The line... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6966555 | Sheet stacking apparatus A banknote stacker comprising at least one first scissors linkage acting to extend a pusher into a cashbox, and at least one second scissors linkage acting transversely to said first to extend a lateral portion of said pusher to flatten a note in the cashbox. ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6955351 | Paper feeding device and sheet carrying device A paper feeding device comprises a document tray for loading the document, a document-detecting sensor for detecting the document loaded in the document tray and a MYLAR® made of a sheet-shaped resilience material. A part of the MYLAR® is in contact with the docum... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6948607 | Sheet handling apparatus and method for opening/closing sheet transport path in the handling apparatus In a paper-like piece handling apparatus, a same drive (M2) is shared between a stacker mechanism (11) for storing an inserted paper-like piece (P) into a cumulative paper-like piece storage section (20) and a shutter (10) for opening/clo... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6877739 | Vertical stacker input method and apparatus An on-edge stacking machine having a mailpiece input device to release mailpieces, one at a time, to a stacking deck for stacking. A speed monitoring device and a sensing device are used to monitor the moving speed and the arrival time of a mailpiece from the input ... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6805346 | Bottom stacking apparatus for stacking mailpieces An embodiment of the present invention comprises a apparatus for stacking mailpieces comprising elongated intermittently rotating S-elements, one of the rotating S-elements has an S-shaped cross section, the other of the rotating S-elements has a mirror image of the... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6666448 | Apparatus handling paper sheets and the like When a large number of paper sheets and the like, tending to be folded or curled, are introduced into an introducing space, folded portions of the paper sheets and the like or edges of the curled paper sheets and the like project into an introducing port,... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6634639 | Paper sheet stacking apparatus As a rotary member 21 provided on the back surface side of a guide 5 is rotated, its blades get out to the front surface side through a window 8 formed in the guide 5. With this rotation, the height level of the blades getting out from the window 8 is cha... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6623001 | Sheet stacking apparatus and method for controlling the feed of sheet material into a stacking wheel In a sheet stacking apparatus, in particular spiral slot stacker, one determines the relative position of a group of sheets 7A, 7B, for example distance ta between the sheets or total length tL of overlapping sheets. Sheet sensor 16 ... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6543763 | Bank-note processing device A bank-note processing device wherein disposed between a pair of rotary drums (22, 23) is a stacker lever (53) that presses that portion of the bank-note (31) inserted in bank-note guide slits (22b, 23b) which is positioned on the side of a bank-note reve... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6540223 | On-edge stacking apparatus A stacking apparatus for stacking flat articles on edge is provided where each article has a front perimeter edge and two faces and the stacking apparatus receives each flat article as it enters the stacking apparatus moving in a direction generally paral... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6398204 | On-edge stacking apparatus A stacking apparatus for stacking flat articles on edge is provided where each article has a front perimeter edge and two faces and the stacking apparatus receives each flat article as it enters the stacking apparatus moving in a direction generally paral... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6394444 | Bank-note processing device A bank-note processing device wherein disposed between a pair of rotary drums (22, 23) is a stacker lever (53) that presses that portion of the bank-note (31) inserted in bank-note guide slits (22b, 23b) which is positioned on the side of a bank-note reve... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6331000 | Currency recycling system and method for automated banking machine A media storage system for an automated banking machine (10) includes a flipper member (90, 178) which is rotationally movable to engage sheets. A gripper member (138, 182) is movably mounted relative to the flipper member. The flipper member further incl... | 12/18/2001 |
| 6290221 | Sheet stacking/conveying unit and image forming apparatus using sheet stacking/conveying unit A sheet stacking and conveying unit that have a first end and a second end includes: a sheet stacker to stack sheets conveyed in the first direction in order; a conveyor to convey a lowest stacked sheet in the second direction that is opposite to the firs... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6283470 | Sheet treating apparatus with aligning device and image forming apparatus having the same A sheet treating apparatus capable of stacking discharged sheets in the shape of bundle, including a sheet stacking device so positioned that the downstream side in the discharging direction is higher than the upstream side and serving to stack the sheets... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6250626 | Sheet discharging apparatus A sheet discharging apparatus adapted to receive a sheet conveyed thereto, the sheet discharging apparatus has a pair of axes situated parallel to each other at a predetermined distance away from each other, the axes being located along two side edges of ... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6220592 | Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet processing apparatus includes a stacking device for stacking a sheet, a delivering device for delivering the sheet to the stacking device, and a pulling device for pulling in a direction opposite to a delivery direction the sheet delivered to the ... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6019209 | Medium-reserving apparatus for receiving and reserving individually transferred media and discharging reserved media in a batch A medium or bill reserving apparatus of the invention receives and reserves at least one individually transferred medium or bill, and discharges the reserved media in a batch. The apparatus is formed of an accumulating wheel having an outer surface and a ... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5971161 | Mailpiece sorting device The present invention provides a sorter preferably for an inserting system for sorting mailpieces into one of at least two sorting bins, the sorter having a transport device for conveying the mailpieces along a transport path. Each sorting bin includes a ... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5769412 | Paper slip storage unit A first shaft 21 and a second shaft 31 parallel with each other are provided near an inlet 14 of a bill storage chamber 10. Taking-in runners 20 are disposed on the first shaft 21 and taking-in rollers 30 are disposed on the second shaft 31. The taking-in... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5653437 | Sheet discharger In a sheet discharger with a simple structure, the subsequently discharged sheet can be stored under such a condition that this subsequently discharged sheet is overlapped on the rear surface of the previously discharged sheets. The sheet discharger inclu... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5641156 | Apparatus for inspecting sheet materials and conveying device used therefor The sheet material inspection apparatus has a pitch detection section for detecting pitches between sheet materials on a conveying path and a control section which effects so that the sheet material is inserted from a predetermined position of a groove of... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5624017 | Multi-purpose currency validator with compact low power cassette stacker A modular bill validator is disclosed consisting of easily separable modules and sub-modules. The main modules consist of a validation module and a removable, lockable or sealable stacker module. The validation module has slide out sub-modules can functio... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5620177 | Paper slip storage system A paper slip storage system having a paper slip storage container (20) being placed in conjunction with a transport mechanism for storing transported paper slips is disclosed. The system has a temporary housing section (33), a rotational displacement mech... | 04/15/1997 |
