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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7866662 | Synchronized vacuum belt feeder A vacuum belt feeder comprising a means of conveyance having a pitch, for retrieving items from a supply zone, and then distributing them at target locations in a discharge zone. ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7464929 | Apparatus for carrying or guiding a printing material sheet An apparatus for carrying or guiding a printing material sheet on an air cushion between a nozzle surface and the printing material sheet. The apparatus has first nozzle pairs which are arranged in a first row and second nozzle pairs which are arranged in a second r... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7448616 | Attacher having soft nip rollers A method for positioning a second flat item atop a flat first item includes the steps of: providing a first conveyor for transporting the first item and rotatably mounting a hard nip roller on an axle so that the hard nip roller engages the first conveyor. A second ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7431290 | Device for guiding a print carrier, method for producing a print carrier guiding device and machine for processing a print carrier A device for guiding a print carrier includes nozzles. The nozzles have tongues bounded by at least one at least approximately comb-shaped contour. A machine includes the guiding device and a method is provided for producing the guiding device. ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7392984 | Process for guiding printing media and printing media guide Guiding a printing medium that is being conveyed along a travel path in a printing machine, whereby the printing medium is not making contact along at least one edge. A stream of sucked air (9) is directed at least partially outward, with respect to at least ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7387298 | Synchronized vacuum belt feeder A vacuum belt feeder comprising a means of conveyance having a pitch, for retrieving items from a supply zone, and then distributing them at target locations in a discharge zone. ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7384036 | Sheet handling device for wide format sheets A sheet handling device for wide format sheets including a sheet support plate having a top surface containing suction holes which are connected to at least one suction chamber, the at least one suction chamber being divided into compartments that are connected, tho... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7384035 | Configuration for generating throttled blowing air or suction air A configuration for generating blowing air or suction air, in particular a directing element in a sheet-processing machine, has a throttle path formed with vortex chambers. The vortex chambers generate vortex flows in a flow channel and they are formed by projection... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7322690 | Fixed material transportation apparatus, liquid fixing apparatus having transporatation apparatus and sucking unit of fixed material in liquid fixing apparatus There are provided a sucking unit having a recording medium transportation surface including a plurality of sucking holes, a decompression chamber communicating with the sucking holes and a sucking device for sucking air in the decompression chamber, and a deliverin... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7309179 | Media advancing device and method of displacing a medium A media advancing device for a hardcopy apparatus comprising: a platen having at least one slot and a top surface, whereby a medium advances on the top surface; and a plurality of openings connecting the top surface to at least one zone of negative pressure; and a r... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7296792 | Self-valving vacuum distribution for a belt-driven sheet conveyor A self-valving vacuum distribution system for a belt-driven sheet conveyor utilizes the sheets to automatically open vacuum control valves sequentially in a downstream direction as the sheet is carried on the belts. The system also automatically adjusts for varying ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7269475 | Distributed control system with global contraints for controlling object motion with smart matter Embedded in a transport assembly are arrays of microelectromechanical sensors and actuators for detecting and propelling an object. A controller having defined therein local computational agents and a global controller controls the array of sensors and actuators. Th... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7228187 | System and method for interfacing multi-agent system A system and method of interacting with a multi-agent distributed control system employing a plurality of controllers on which are programmed a plurality of agents in which the controllers are coupled by a network are disclosed. The method includes providing a compu... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7219889 | Sheet-processing machine with a pneumatic sheet-guiding device A sheet-processing machine, particularly a rotary printing press, includes a blast-air supply system and a pneumatic sheet-guiding device connected thereto. The sheet-guiding device has a sheet-guiding surface formed with air passage openings and serves for having t... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7044584 | Wide format pagewidth inkjet printer A printing mechanism includes a housing. A pair of spaced support members is positioned on either side of the housing. First and second primary rollers are mounted between the support members. A first platen is mounted between the support members and is positioned o... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7043309 | Distributed actuation allocation for large assemblies of implementation units Apparatus and methods that approximately solve an actuation allocation problem by breaking the solution into modules, which may or may not be overlapping. The solution to the actuation allocation problem is expressed in terms of solutions for each of the modules. Th... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6971500 | Conveyorized storage and transportation system A configurable storage system particularly suited for use with clean-environment conveyors is disclosed. The storage system includes modular conveyor track elements which may be provided parallel to and adjacent a ceiling mounted conveyor highway. Conveyor elements ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6969066 | Passive vacuum transport An apparatus for improving sheet feeding in a direction of movement to a process station, including: a contact surface having ribs spaced along contact surface in the direction of movement, apertures being defined in the space between each rib; a blower; and an air ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6957035 | Vacuum assisted fuser entrance guide for an electrophotographic machine A fuser entrance guide in an electrophotographic apparatus, which supports a sheet of copy medium as it enters the fuser section. The guide has a curved base plate that has vacuum ports both at the edges and across the central area thereof. The ports in the central ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6948430 | Printing plate conveyor system A conveyor system for transporting a printing plate in a platemaking system includes: a carriage riding on a track and one or more low friction substantially horizontal planar support surfaces provided as a high wear laminate, positioned above the carriage and the t... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6927841 | Holddown device for hardcopy apparatus A media holddown device a plastics vacuum guide attached to a sheet metal vacuum beam, the guide includes vacuum chambers in communication with the beam through openings to control the negative pressures applied to media of varying widths by a fan. Dividing walls ar... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6921163 | Recording apparatus There are provided a suction unit which sucks a recording medium, and a unit which changes sucking force of the suction unit according to the property of the recording medium. Hereby, since the sucking force of the suction unit can be set according to a state of the... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6896258 | Sheet-fed press and intermediate cylinder for sheet-fed press An intermediate cylinder comprising a main body, and a plurality of suction boxes formed in the main body at positions different with respect to a rotation axis of the main body. The intermediate cylinder further comprises a plurality of suction bores formed in the ... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6834949 | Device for simultaneously holding by suction and transporting a sheet A device for holding a sheetlike article on a movable underlying surface for transporting the sheetlike article in at least one direction selected from the group consisting of a direction into and a direction out of an operating station having a printing unit, inclu... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6793217 | Stacker for die-cut products A stacker for stacking labels die-cut from a continuous web by a die cutter into vertical stacks. The stacker is of the kind that includes at least one stacking chute having an upper opening and a number of mainly vertically arranged walls, at least one overlying be... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6739775 | Apparatus for positioning receiving material during the application of an ink image thereto Apparatus for keeping a receiving material flat against a plate during the application of an ink image thereto, wherein the plate is provided with V-shaped channels which extend in the direction in which the receiving material is movable stepwise over the plate. Rib... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6722652 | Sheet-fed press and intermediate cylinder for sheet-fed press An intermediate cylinder comprising a main body, and a plurality of suction boxes formed in the main body at positions different with respect to a rotation axis of the main body. The intermediate cylinder further comprises a plurality of suction bores formed in the ... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6663550 | Smoothing device for flat printing materials A smoothing device includes guide surface sections for a flat printing material whose leading edge is pulled in a direction of travel over the guide surface sections. The guide surface sections have openings which communicate with throttling ducts that ar... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6648326 | Delivery for a machine processing flat printing materials A delivery for a machine for processing flat printing materials, includes a sheet guide surface with suction openings opening into the sheet guide surface, a suction chamber communicating with the suction openings, and a sheet conveyor for gripping a resp... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6419217 | Drawings-in- of paper webs A paper web is drawn into a printing and can be guided along a selected one of several paths. The paper web is weakened along a line of separation and is then held by a retaining system that can move the web in a conveying direction along a first path. Th... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6386536 | Hardcopy apparatus and method for loading media A hardcopy apparatus including a main roller and a loading mechanism to load a medium into the hardcopy apparatus, said loading mechanism including a vacuum holddown input unit to hold media down onto a surface of said holddown unit. In addition, a method... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6322265 | Vacuum workbed A wide format thermal printer for printing a multicolor graphic product on a printing sheet; a vacuum workbed for supporting a sheet material for performing work operations, such as cutting, printing or plotting, thereon; a replaceable donor sheet assembl... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6270075 | Vacuum transport for use in a xerographic printer A vacuum transport for a printer or copier guides a sheet through a machine, such as from a photoreceptor toward a fuser. The vacuum transport includes a partially enclosed vacuum chamber having rollers rotatably mounted therein. Portions of the rollers p... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6264190 | Suction unit in sheet-fed rotary printing press A suction unit in a sheet-fed rotary printing press includes a plurality of suction wheels, a plurality of supports, a drive shaft, a motor, a shaft, a coupling, a bearing, a sleeve, and a gear, and a knob and a screw. The suction wheels are provided belo... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6234472 | Hardcopy apparatus and method for outputting media A hardcopy apparatus comprising a main roller and an outputting mechanism for moving a medium outside the hardcopy apparatus, said outputting mechanism being characterised by including a vacuum holddown output unit for holding at least a portion of media ... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6179285 | Media transport assembly incorporating vacuum grooves to flatten sheet A media transport system for transporting a media sheet in a marking device includes an entrance drive assembly, an exit drive assembly and a vacuum generator that applies a vacuum force to the media sheet to form a wide, flat printing zone. The entrance ... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6155558 | Feeding table for sheets in a feeder of a sheet-fed printing press A feeder for a sheet-fed printing press includes a feeding table having a surface which, at least in subregions thereof, is formed with through openings, over which sheets separable or singlable by a suction head are transportable against lays for alignin... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6152444 | Shuttling media movement system for hardcopy devices A shuttling media movement system moves media in a hardcopy device, such as an inkjet printing mechanism, a facsimile machine or a multi-function device. The shuttling media movement system has a first member with a first set of fingers for periodically s... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6119052 | Market-based control system for controlling object motion with smart matter A market based controller controls the motion of an object on a transport assembly. The transport assembly is formed using sensors and actuators that are proximately coupled in physical space. To efficiently allocate a fixed amount of air pressure directe... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6086063 | Sheet stacking apparatus A sheet stacking apparatus includes laterally spaced, longitudinally arranged conveyors for supporting edge regions of a sheet, the conveyors driven to deliver the sheet horizontally to a stacking area. At the stacking area the conveyors are separated to ... | 07/11/2000 |
