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Dining Table Having Integral Dishwasher
A space-saving dishwasher, which may be installed within a counter top or table, having a dish-carrying rack that is vertically shiftable through the open top of the dishwasher for facilitating loading and unloading of the dishes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8172224 | Sheet discharge apparatus, sheet processing apparatus, and image forming apparatus A configuration of a sheet discharge apparatus, a sheet processing apparatus, and an image forming apparatus has a lower discharge tray which stacks a sheet thereon; a pair of discharge rollers which discharge the sheets onto the lower discharge tray; and a changing... | 05/08/2012 |
| 7828288 | Multi-functional peripheral device and adjustable paper output holder A multi-functional peripheral device is provided. The multi-functional peripheral device includes a bottom frame and a top frame that is installed so as to be movable with respect to the bottom frame. The height of a paper stacker, to which paper is delivered and st... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7347418 | Method and apparatus for overlapping sheets in a sheet feeder and providing the overlapped sheets to a printing press The present invention is directed to a sheet feeding apparatus and method. In particular this invention comprises a sheet feeding apparatus having a first conveyance member, a second conveyance member, and a sheet bending member. The first conveyance member conveys ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7334675 | Flexible discharge attachment for friction feeder A flexible discharge attachment for the discharge a feeding machine to deliver the items being discharged at different orientations ranging from horizontal to vertical. The attachment have a multiplicity of brackets each pivotally connected to each other for simulat... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7319842 | Pivotal sheet conveying apparatus for skew correction and image forming apparatus To provide a sheet conveying apparatus capable of enhancing an accuracy of correcting a skew of a sheet, and of preventing position shift of a sheet. The present invention provides a sheet conveying apparatus for conveying a sheet by a sheet conveying unit disposed ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7066462 | Method of and apparatus for stacking sheets of paper and the like A stream of successive sheets of paper, foil or the like is converted into a series of piles at a stacking station where successive sheets are caused to descend onto a pallet which is adjacent a monitoring device serving to transmit signals denoting the levels of su... | 06/27/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6988724 | Sheet-fed printing apparatus A sheet-fed printing apparatus includes a delivery section covered with a discharge section cover formed with an opening sized to allow a printed sheet to pass through. Successive printed sheets released from a chain delivery collide against a pair of first sheet-tr... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6814352 | Installation for the processing of piece goods An installation for processing piece goods including a processing station and a supply unit and/or removal unit. Supply and removal units are displaceable relative to the processing device. Supply and removal units include a closed-in-itself rail track and a plurali... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6557846 | Safety lock for upstacker A safety lock for locking an upstacker conveyor in an elevated position by means of a safety lock having a retractable member which is inserted between elevating members and the frame of the upstacker. Specifically, the safety lock is inserted between ele... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6533265 | Neat job offset Transfer media is positioned with a positioning apparatus. The apparatus has an output repository, a sensor, a controller, a lateral transporter, and a longitudinal conveyor. The output repository has an offset edge axis. The sensor is configured to sense... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6427097 | Conveyor autoset layboy machine A layboy machine for conveying and selectively varying the lateral spacing between sheets such as sheets of corrugated board. The machine is provided with controlled tugs which automatically, precisely and quickly reposition the conveyors in the machine f... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6390465 | Sheet process apparatus performing binding process on sheets featuring a controller for shifting sheet discharge A sheet process apparatus includes a stapler for performing a stapling process on a sheet any a shift sheet discharge unit for performing shift sheet discharging. The shift sheet discharging discharges and stacks the sheets on a tray in a status that the ... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6241238 | Sheet-like material guiding device of offset printing press A sheet-like material guiding device of an offset printing press comprises a chain for holding and transporting a printed sheet; a product pile device for piling the printed sheet released from the chain; a suction device for reducing the speed of the pri... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6234473 | Zero feed interrupt sheet stacker A zero feed interrupt sheet stacker conveying an uninterrupted stream of sheets in which a sheet accumulator catches holds and deposits a stack of sheets upon a load receiving device. The accumulator includes a curtain which is extended into the stream of... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6186501 | Signature diverter The present invention is directed to a diverter mechanism for use in a web fed rotary printing press, that is simple, low in mass, provides positive control of signatures passing through it, and can be located close to elements or mechanisms within the pr... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6126162 | Sheet distribution device There is disclosed a sheet distribution device in which by using a junction conveying means for conveying sheets from a main sorter unit to a slave sorter unit also as a first conveying portion of the sheet distribution device when sheet distribution devi... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6082733 | Sorting device in a conveyor of plate-like workpieces The disclosed sorting device, within a conveyor of plate-like workpieces, comprises a first lower rear conveyor (40) ending in a front wheel or roller (42) driven in rotation. It also comprises a second lower front conveyor (50) located behind the first a... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6042108 | Zero feed interrupt sheet stacker A zero feed interrupt sheet stacker conveying an uninterrupted stream of sheets in which a sheet accumulator catches holds and deposits a stack of sheets upon a load receiving device. The accumulator includes a curtain which is extended into the stream of... | 03/28/2000 |
| 5996992 | Transfer device A transfer apparatus for transferring items from a first conveying device to moving assigned item carriers carried on a second conveying device is disclosed. The item carriers and the second conveying device move in a second transporting direction which i... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5954325 | Automatic document feeder An automatic document feeder feeds documents placed on a document table to a document exposure position, and has a document discharge means having a discharge roller for discharging the document after exposure onto the document table, the document dischar... | 09/21/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5609335 | High capacity stacker/separating device A high capacity conveyor assembly is utilizable with pressure sealers or other business forms manufacturing or handling equipment to efficiently handle forms that may be job separated, and provides high capacity outfeed. An infeed conveyor has a first hor... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5569015 | Intermediate storage apparatus An intermediate storage apparatus for the storage of sheets has an acceptance cycle and a transportation cycle and includes a feed system and a transportation system. In the acceptance cycle the intermediate storage apparatus waits until a first detector ... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5544874 | Anti-skew device for envelope turner Apparatus for turning an envelope. The apparatus includes: a pivotable feed deck for receiving an envelope; a device for stopping the envelope on the feed deck; a device for raising and lowering the downstream end of the feed deck; and a pivotable upper a... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5535874 | Carrier for transport and delivery of an article to a destination A system and a method for sorting are provided for distributing articles, such as mail pieces or other flats, to predetermined destinations. At the destination, the particular article is raked by a raking assembly from a carrier for placement into a conta... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5497985 | Method and apparatus for temporarily storing and transporting successive textile sheets A method is provided for temporarily storing a series of successive textile sheets having a length L in an overlapping relationship in a collecting apparatus, including the successive steps of conveying the textile sheets one after another to an inlet of ... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5451040 | Signature feeder for a binding line In order to avoid ergonomic problems such as carpel tunnel syndrome while improving productivity, an apparatus for feeding signatures to a patent bound binding line is disclosed. The apparatus includes a pocket adjacent a binding line for receiving signat... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5238239 | Carton blank prefeeding apparatus and process A carton blank prefeeding apparatus generally comprising a carton blank stack magazine situated above a conveyor. The conveyor is preferably tri-sectional, having a blank withdrawal section, an intermediate section and a delivery section. Typically, the b... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5197590 | Hopper loader A hopper loader interfaced with a variety of hoppers/feeders having a horizontal infeed conveyor with a hand-feed belt section near the input end movable between an operative position for hand-feed operation and a lowered position to facilitate automatic ... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5195733 | Restorative sheet transport apparatus A recirculating original-sheet transport apparatus supplies a sheet from a stack of original documents to the exposure station of an image forming apparatus and restores the sheet onto the stack. It includes a sheet container for receiving originals, a sh... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5180157 | Self contained transport apparatus with drawer mount An apparatus for conveying sheets of paper along a paper path comprises an outer frame having an inlet end for connection to an upstream conveying device and an outlet end for connection to a downstream conveying device. The outer frame has a hollow inter... | 01/19/1993 |
| 5152512 | Sheet receiving apparatus, sheet delivery apparatus and automatic transaction apparatus having an extensible sheet transfer path A sheet dealing apparatus feeds sheets, received within the apparatus, to a user through a sheet delivery portion by an operation of the user or receives the sheets into the sheet dealing apparatus from the user. Also, this operation may be similarly appl... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5149081 | Feed table unit of a sheet-fed printing machine A feed table unit of a sheet-fed printing machine with machine side frames for feeding sheets of paper from a stacker to a printing unit includes a feed table including a table top, two side parts holding the table top, a conveyor having a drive for revol... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5114039 | Apparatus and method for discharging articles from a vibratory feeder An apparatus is disclosed for transferring flanged articles from a vibratory feeder to a discharge station which features a pair of feed rails one of which has a curved external hearing surface for providing point bearing contact with a flange of the arti... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5106077 | Paper conveying, discharging and recovering mechanism An automated teller machine (ATM) dispenses currency through a delivery port. Two opposing belts form a clamping unit during normal operation. Currency is clamped between the belts and the belts are rotated in a forward direction to deliver currency to th... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5104105 | Method and apparatus for providing identifying indicia for moving bundles and the like A sheet is moved into a tray. The height of a bundle is determined as it moves along a conveyor. A belt drive is activated to pinch the delivered sheet and advance it to a swingable applicator whose outfeed end is movable to a position just above the top ... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5101241 | Telescopic paper guide means movable to selected receiving trays An apparatus for sorting sheets of paper discharged from an image forming apparatus includes a tray unit having a plurality of receiving trays for receiving the discharged sheets of paper. The trays are stacked in a predetermined direction at predetermine... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5060930 | Apparatus for receiving articles by self-feeding and for conveying and dispensing such articles Article handling apparatus comprises a carriage mounted to a support for to and fro movement along a path (A). An article conveyor is mounted on the carriage defined by opposed conveying surfaces for conveying articles relative to the carriage along a tra... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5044623 | Apparatus for stacking sheets Apparatus for stacking sheets comprises a collecting bin with a front stationary abutment and a rear limiting element adjustable to various sheet size ranges. A first deflecting roller, adjustable in the entrance direction of the sheets and mounted on a r... | 09/03/1991 |
