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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8042805 | Machine for processing printed sheets A machine for processing printed sheets includes a sheet delivery having a first conveying device for leading sheet ends, a second conveying device for trailing sheet ends, and a setting device for adjusting one of the two conveying devices relative to the other in ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7367667 | Image forming apparatus with conveying part arranged to allow drying An image forming apparatus has a recording head forming an image on paper by jetting ink, a conveying part conveying the paper to a position opposite to said recording head, and a reversing ejection part provided downstream in a paper conveyance direction with respe... | 05/06/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6655680 | Document sensor and sensing method A sensor for detecting the entrance of a document into a sheet feeder. The document sensor is attached to the sheet feeder. The document sensor comprises a printed circuit board, a key peg and a rocking lever. The printed circuit board is attached to the ... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6311973 | Paper stacker apparatus used with facsimile device An apparatus for dropping paper sheets at a predetermined paper-stack position when the paper sheets are ejected from a facsimile device includes a conveyor belt which carries the paper sheets, a housing, containing the conveyer belt, which is detachably ... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6206363 | Catch tray attachment for sheet feeding machine A catch tray attachment for a sheet feeding machine allows rapid accumulation and manual removal of a predetermined count of sheet articles from the catch tray. The catch tray itself is adapted for mounting to the frame of the sheet feeding machine so as ... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6182964 | Paper stacker apparatus used with facsimile device An apparatus for dropping paper sheets at a predetermined paper-stack position when the paper sheets are ejected from a facsimile device includes a conveyor belt which carries the paper sheets, a housing, containing the conveyer belt, which is detachably ... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6164641 | Document separating mechanism of automatic document feeder A document separating mechanism for an automatic document feeder for separating and feeding the bottommost document of documents laid on document bearing means. A separating roller mechanism has a plurality of rollers provided at spaced locations in an ax... | 12/26/2000 |
| 5660383 | Sheet recording material transport apparatus A film transport apparatus (3) for sheet film is provided on the rear side of a cassette loading/unloading unit and a processing unit (2) positioned next to the latter. Film transport apparatus (3) comprises a transport table which can be moved back and f... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5556086 | Method for assembling a postal item as well as a system and an aligning station for carrying out this method Postal items are assembled using a system with delivery stations and a folding station. Documents are delivered by the delivery stations. The documents are gathered into a stack having on one side substantially aligned document edges. The stack is supplie... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5507481 | Automated teller machine passbook transport mechanism A passbook transport and handling apparatus (10) for transporting a passbook between a customer using an automated banking machine and a printer (12) located inside the banking machine includes first belt flights (32) movable on first pulleys (22). The tr... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5478065 | Document feeding apparatus with ejecting means partly associated with transferring means A transferring device for feeding a document to a predetermined position and further transferring the document from the predetermined position and an ejecting device for ejecting the transferred document are formed in a simple structure to have the same t... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5467677 | Cutting apparatus Apparatus for trimming small booklet-like products transported by bands (16) between a position serving for front trimming and a position serving for foot and head trimming. The bands (16) include a pair of transport bands (18,20) guided about a respectiv... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5366217 | Sheet stacker With a sheet stacker to stack sheets cut by a sheet cutter into stacking station, sheets cut by a sheet cutter are transferred by a conveyor with a fixed sheet interval, a clamping device clamps a base position near the tail end of the sheet during transf... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5267826 | Sheet handling apparatus A cash dispensing unit includes first and second cooperating endless belts (72, 74) for feeding a stack (76) of the currency notes to an exit port (54). End portions of the first and second belts (72, 74) respectively pass around first and second pulleys ... | 12/07/1993 |
| 5201397 | Method and apparatus for separating a stack of products into a stream of single products for sorting A method and apparatus for separating feeding and sorting stacked products utilizes a computer controlled conveyor transport path. The transport path comprises infeed, separating and output sections. The infeed section includes an infeed conveyor and feed... | 04/13/1993 |
| 5150894 | Diverter mechanism for flat document conveyor system A conveyor system for conveying generally flat documents on-edge includes a primary conveyor belt defining a primary conveyor path, and at least one secondary conveyor belt defining a diverter station and having a first reach disposed in juxtaposed relati... | 09/29/1992 |
| 5129641 | Multiple stage dispenser A method and apparatus for delivering cards or like paper stock fed singly from a stack of the cards to a demand location for dispensing in sequence, in which each card fed from the stack is advanced through a plurality of stages of a conveyor, each stage... | 07/14/1992 |
| 5113997 | Veneer strip charging apparatus The veneer strip charging apparatus comprises a belt conveyor with a plurality of conveyor belts evenly distributed over the width of the apparatus. The belt conveyors transport the veneer strip placed thereon only by means of static friction. Furthermore... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5112041 | Process and apparatus for transporting printing products arriving in imbricated formation A belt conveyor (10) leads past two branch-off points (12,12') arranged behind one another, viewed in a conveying direction (F). Removal conveyors (14, 14'), whose conveying-away direction (W) runs at an angle to the conveying direction (F), lead away fro... | 05/12/1992 |
| 4991829 | Method for controlling two interrelated transport means and machine thus controlled, especially a personal banking machine A method and personal banking machine is described by which two items such as cash and statement can be issued simultaneously through one and the same gate. The optimum point in time is determined and adaptively controlled by which the front edge of state... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4934683 | Automatic original conveying apparatus An automatic original conveying apparatus in which originals loaded on an original stacking unit are conveyed to a predetermined position one by one. Abnormal stacking of the original on the original stacking unit is detected, and continuation of operatio... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4917659 | Packaging container ejection apparatus Apparatus for removing defective knocked down carton blanks, from a carton erecting machine. In one embodiment opposed sets of tractors for clamping the selected unit and driving it from the conveyor line with moving tractive belts. A sensing device detec... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4802665 | Conveyor device for flat objects A belt and pulley conveyor device for flat objects comprises a substantially linear input conveyor and a substantially linear output conveyor orthogonal to the input conveyor. The input of the output conveyor is substantially contiguous with the output of... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4799663 | Feeding mechanism A feeding mechanism for stacking and moving sheets of paper and the like in which sheets are moved to a stacking area where they are held stationary and accumulate in a stack. The stack is released and moved away from the stacking area after a predetermin... | 01/24/1989 |
| 4753433 | Device for monitoring imbricated sheets stream fed to printing machines Device for monitoring imbricated sheets stream fed to a printing machine, including a scanning roller rotatably mounted on a carrier above a base of imbricatedly arranged sheets, the carrier being adjustable by a servomotor so that the scanning roller rot... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4729555 | Compact high speed stacker Sheet material 10 is advanced from a reel 11, cut by cutter 14 and then each segment is moved parallel to its cut edges through sewing machines 22, 23 so as to sew the hems of the work product. The finished product is advanced rapidly in its direction of ... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4696464 | Method of and an apparatus for uniting at least two streams of shingled laid out products, particularly folded paper products A method of uniting at least two streams of shingled products, particularly folded paper products, in which the individual products of the two product streams and/or the united product stream are drawn apart on at least one partial section inter alia by m... | 09/29/1987 |
| 4688786 | Sheet handling apparatus A sheet sorter which generates a signal for enabling image formation before the sheet sorter becomes ready for sheet handling, thereby reducing the time required for the first image recording.... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4667953 | Sheet stacker A sheet stacker for a corrugation machine having a cutter to widthwisely cut off a continuously manufactured corrugated cardboard web into corrugated cardboard sheets, and then transfer, stack and eject the sheets. The sheet stacker comprises: a shingling... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4667951 | Original feeding apparatus An original feeding apparatus for single or both side original copy has belts and rollers to carry an original to an exposure position a glass platen, motors for driving the belts and rollers, an electromagnetic brake and a drive control circuit to apply ... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4621803 | Sorting apparatus of shiftable bin type A sorting apparatus of a shiftable bin type for use in a copying apparatus or the like, which is arranged to be capable of readily and positively removing sorted copy paper sheets from respective bins.... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4615521 | Elevator between transfer passages An apparatus for transferring a sheet-like article such as a wafer between a first horizontal passage defining a first plane and a second horizontal passage defining a second plane at a different level from said first plane comprising a carriage verticall... | 10/07/1986 |
| 4588180 | Loader for signatures, sheets and similar products, for the feeders of packaging machines, bookbinding machines and the like A loader for box-type feeders of packaging machines, bookbinding machines and the like, in which the products are loaded into a feed channel with an inclined base formed by a conveyor belt, to be brought into contact with a counteracting plate. Sucker arm... | 05/13/1986 |
| 4580774 | Sheet material accumulating device A sheet material accumulating device includes a sheet transporting section which is arranged to receiver sheets from a sheet feeding station at a feeding speed and to transport the received sheets to a slanted guide plate of an accumulating section, where... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4548404 | Method and apparatus for forming a stream of partly overlapping paper sheets A cross cutter subdivides a continuous paper web into a file of discrete randomly distributed satisfactory and unsatisfactory sheets which are advanced by a first transporting unit at an elevated first speed into the variable-width clearance between two s... | 10/22/1985 |
| 4498664 | Apparatus for removing from a product stream conveyed by means of a conveyor device flexible, flat products, especially printed products For removing printed products out of their composite product formation or arrangement the grippers of a conveyor device which grippingly retain such printed products are opened by means of a release device. Viewed in the product conveying direction, the p... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4445681 | Apparatus for removing flexible flat products from a product stream Two stop or impact members which are situated opposite one another with respect to grippers of a conveyor device are used for detaching or removing the printed products out of their product formation. In their effective position these stop members project... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4399991 | Mechanism for stacking and accumulating stacks of flat flexible articles A mechanism for stacking and accumulating a plurality of stacks of predetermined numbers of flat flexible articles, such as pillowcases and like products, sequentially received therein, such as from a machine fabricating such articles. A plurality of bar ... | 08/23/1983 |
