Did You Know...
...that one person who claimed to be the inventor of the television is Russian emigre Vladimir Zworykin? In 1929 David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, asked Zworykin what it would take to develop TV for commercial use. He said: a year and a half and $100,000. In reality, it took 20 years and $50 million! Before his death in 1982 at the age of 92, Zworykin said of his invention: "The technique is wonderful. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing."
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8267398 | Medium storing and advancing apparatus To provide a medium storing and advancing apparatus which orderly piles up bills even when not flat. The medium storing and advancing apparatus includes a tongue piece roller having tongue pieces having the length thereof predetermined. While the tongue piece roller... | 09/18/2012 |
| 8152162 | Sheet stacking apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet stacking device has a discharging portion, a holding portion that holds a downstream end portion of the sheet, a stacking portion and a control portion that controls the discharging portion and the holding portion. The control portion controls at least one o... | 04/10/2012 |
| 7905481 | Method for feeding a shingled stack of sheet material A method for feeding a shingled stack of sheet material to a downstream processing device includes the step of identifying a discontinuity in the shingled stack of sheet material wherein the discontinuity has a length dimension from an aft end of a downstream portio... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7862039 | Multi-bin printer A high-speed printing and sorting machine. A first diverter diverts a first batch of items into a first bin, a second diverter diverts a second batch into a second bin, and so on. A plurality of O-rings and flat belts confront one another and rotate in opposite dire... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7766323 | Device for stacking mail items Together with a device for receiving mail items that has a conveyor belt designed to receive and to convey the mail items from a franking station of a mail handling machine, a device is provided for stacking mail items that has a plurality of rollers disposed in sta... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7441770 | Conveyor apparatus having a twice-twisted belt and a floating-tension pulley A conveyor apparatus including a main conveyor by which mail items are routed by being nipped between a transport belt and a main belt, and a secondary conveyor towards which the mail items are routed, after switching, along a secondary belt. The main and secondary ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7422207 | Apparatus for transporting sheets along a transport track with a bend passing around a transport roller An apparatus for transporting sheets from paper or other material that is form-retaining in its plane, having a transport track with a transport roller with a circumference, of which a circumferential section extending through an angular range of the circumference f... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7413189 | ATM currency dispenser with convex roller 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... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7407160 | Discharge system for printed sheets A discharge system for printed media sheets and a printer which utilizes such a discharge system, the discharge system including a tray for the media sheets; rotating transport elements forming a discharge nip for discharging the sheets onto the tray; a guide plate ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7360758 | Accumulator apparatus non-marring pusher system An accumulator apparatus for accumulating one or more sheets or articles is provided and includes a sheet accumulator portion for accumulating one or more sheets or articles, a ramp disposed upstream of the sheet accumulator portion relative to a flow direction of t... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7334790 | Apparatus for conveying sheets through a rotary press Sheets are conveyed through a rotary press with linear travel grippers. The novel conveying apparatus prevents collisions between the grippers and printing unit cylinders. The grippers are fixed to circulating links to convey a sheet through a nip between two cylind... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7318587 | Method of, and apparatus for, stabilizing and positioning sheet-like articles The invention relates to a method of, and an apparatus for, stabilizing and positioning sheet like articles (16), in particular printed products. In order to prevent the products from buckling and fanning out, the position of an edge (20) of the produc... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7316477 | Ink jet printer An ink jet printer for discharging ink drips to a printing medium mounted on a conveying belt and conveyed from a plurality of nozzles, in which the printing quality is improved and the printing speed is raised. A printing medium conveying section has first and seco... | 01/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7278634 | Device for controlling printed products A tape transport system for printed products includes a tape having a tape width, a pulley, and a lever arm supporting the pulley, the lever arm having a first side and a second side. The pulley has a first section disposed on the first side of the lever arm and a s... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7267053 | Delivery device for a sheet-processing machine The invention relates to a delivery device for a sheet-processing machine. The object of the invention is providing a delivery device on a sheet-fed rotary printing machine, that can be universally used and permits quality control of the printed and/or laminated she... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7243916 | Apparatus for feeding sheets of media from a stack An apparatus for feeding porous sheets of media from a stack of such sheets includes a support structure for supporting the stack. A gas conduit is mounted on the support structure and has an outlet that is oriented so that, when the stack is positioned on the suppo... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7222845 | Printer with a picker assembly A printer includes a support structure. A printing assembly is mounted on the support structure. The printing assembly includes a feed mechanism mounted on the support structure for feeding sheets of media along a feed path. At least one printhead is mounted on the ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7201372 | Sheet accumulator systems and methods Sheet accumulator systems and methods are provided for forming a stack of under-accumulated sheets. The method can include advancing sheets in a predetermined sequence and under-accumulating a first portion of the advanced sheets in a first stack. The method can als... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7191704 | Conveyor unit for conveying flat objects A conveyor unit for conveying flat objects includes at least first, second and third endless belts, together with a cylinder. The first endless belt extends along a part of the circumference of the cylinder and forms, with the cylinder circumference, a section of a ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7178915 | Ink-jet recording apparatus An ink-jet head comprises a conveyance unit that forms a conveyance face on which a recording medium is conveyed, and a first moving mechanism that moves the conveyance unit. By means of the first moving mechanism, the conveyance unit selectively takes a conveyance ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7134392 | Conveyor unit for conveying flat objects A conveyor unit for conveying flat objects includes at least first, second and third endless belts, together with a cylinder. The first endless belt extends along a part of the circumference of the cylinder and forms, with the cylinder circumference, a section of a ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7125216 | Device for loading a three-knife trimmer In a device for loading a three-knife trimmer with brochures, periodicals or like bound book blocks (1), comprising a feed conveyor (4), a stacking device (16) operable in magazine mode and counted stack mode and including a magazine (17)... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7121544 | High throughput sheet accumulator An improved sheet accumulator for stacking serially fed sheets transported on a paper path. The accumulator includes a guide deck. Above the guide deck, a plurality of parallel belts are positioned to provide a driving force for sheets on the deck. Within the accumu... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7097028 | Gripping element for continuous motion inserting finger An envelope insert conveyor assembly includes a first pair of rotation members and a second pair of rotation members spaced apart from one another. A first conveying member is disposed around the first pair of rotation members, and a second conveying member is dispo... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7090213 | Outlet roller of sheet stacking device and an image forming apparatus including the same A sheet stacking device of the present invention includes a receipt tray for stacking sheets sequentially driven out by an outlet roller. The outlet roller has a cylindrical portion and a conveying portion, which is contiguous with the end face of the cylindrical po... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7055816 | Method of processing sheet-like products, and apparatus for implementing the method A method and apparatus for processing a stream of sheet-like products, such as printed magazines and newspapers, whereby the orientation of the products in the stream is changed to facilitate subsequent processing. The products are conveyed in an imbricated stream, ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7044902 | Printing press folder and folder components A folder operable to cut a printed web received from a printing press. The folder includes a cutting section having cutting cylinders that cut the web into individual printed products, and a cutting motor that is operable to drive the cutting cylinders. A delivery a... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7036812 | Streak free apparatus for processing and stacking printed forms An apparatus for processing, stacking and thereafter collecting printed forms, includes: a dual registering stacking interface, that stacks and accumulates forms in a stack or in a continuing feeding as separate forms; and, a sequencer merger that receives the forms... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7036922 | Inkjet printer An inkjet printer includes a pair of rollers whose axes of rotation are parallel to each other. An endless conveyor belt is stretched between the pair of rollers. The conveyor belt conveys a print medium in the conveyance direction attendant upon rotations of the pa... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7021756 | Inkjet printer An inkjet printer includes a plurality of rollers, an endless transportation belt, a belt rotating mechanism, a recording unit, a printing medium supply mechanism, and a control unit. The transportation belt is laid on the rollers and defines a first recess portion,... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7017902 | Sheet processing apparatus capable of processing conveying jam and method thereof A sheet processing apparatus comprises an upper unit, a lower unit and a banding unit. When sheets being conveyed are jammed in the upper unit, the upper unit is stopped and the processes of the lower unit and the banding unit are continuously executed. After the up... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7014184 | Systems, devices, and methods for feeding sheet material to a disk separator Systems, methods, and devices for preventing the misalignment of sheet material in hoppers adapted to feed sheet material to disk separators are disclosed. In one aspect, a floating backguide is provided. The floating backguide moves independently of the hopper with... | 03/21/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7011304 | Collator apparatus A collator for assembling a packet from one or more sheets, includes a sheet collating tray, a retractable sheet stop within said sheet collating tray for stopping and aligning a leading edge of each sheet entering the sheet collating tray, thereby producing an alig... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7007603 | Conveyor unit for conveying flat objects A conveyor unit for conveying flat objects includes at least first, second and third endless belts, together with a cylinder. The first endless belt extends along a part of the circumference of the cylinder and forms, with the cylinder circumference, a section of a ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6994220 | Mixed mail sorting machine A mixed mail sorting machine includes a feeder that receives a stack of incoming mail pieces and outputs the mail pieces one at a time in a vertical position; a scanner which receives mail pieces from the feeder and scans each mail piece in a vertical position to re... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6978995 | Apparatus and method for collecting flat and letter units A collector apparatus and method capable of collecting material in two modes of operation, flats and letters. With a minor adjustment, the apparatus can be transformed from a two-stage device optimal for the letter mode of operation, to a one-stage device optimal fo... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6978991 | Streak free apparatus for processing and stacking printed forms An apparatus for processing, stacking and thereafter collecting printed forms, includes: a dual registering stacking interface, that stacks and accumulates forms in a stack or in a continuing feeding as separate forms; and, a sequencer merger that receives the forms... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6969059 | Dual modulated vacuum shingler A shingling apparatus for sheets of paper or paperboard includes a pair of independently operable vacuum plenums in a gap between an in-feed conveyor and a reduced speed shingling conveyor. One of the vacuum plenums decelerates an incoming sheet to shingling conveyo... | 11/29/2005 |
