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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8033544 | Edge sensor calibration for printmaking devices According to aspects illustrated herein, there is provided a printmaking device, a method, and a system for calibrating sensors. The printmaking device includes a calibration system with a media path, a registration device, and at least one edge sensor. The registra... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7857308 | Off-center adjustment apparatus According to an embodiment, an idler roller has an insertion through-hole through which a rotation shaft is inserted. Collar-shaped stopper portions are formed on the rotation shaft and are located on both left and right sides of the idler roller when the rotation s... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7635128 | Sheet positioning apparatus in a sheet feeding section of a printing press A sheet-holding-down member provided in a sheet feeding section of a printing press has a sheet-holding-down member that has a sheet-holding-down part that holds down from above an oncoming sheet to prevent a lateral edge of the sheet from being curled upward when t... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7416183 | Postal weighing platform with integrated feeding and deskewing functions The present invention includes apparatus and methods for handling mailpieces. A mailpiece handling device includes a substantially horizontal deck for receiving a mailpiece. The device also includes a substantially vertical registration wall that extends upwardly fr... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7357390 | Devices for aligning sheets and a method for aligning sheets transversal to the direction of travel of the sheets A device is provided for use in the alignment of sheets transverse to a direction of sheet travel. A sheet retaining device, which conveys the sheets, is displaceably mounted for holding the sheets against a side guide. At least two sheets are situated one above the... | 04/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7306221 | Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet conveying apparatus with a skew feed correcting device including a first guide supporting one side edge of the sheet, an aligning device provided in the first guide and having an abutment portion and a first roller pair for causing the sheet to abut the abut... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7156390 | Devices for aligning sheets The invention relates to devices for aligning sheets (1), which are overlapped with an offset and supplied to the device by a stream feeder and which can be transferred to a device (63) that is located downstream, after alignment of the front edge and ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7069680 | Barrier or wall mounting apparatus There is disclosed a mounting apparatus which comprises a vertically extending rigid member having an upper end, a lower end and an intermediate portion, a clamping arm member having a generally horizontal arm have an end and a generally vertical arm having an end, ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 6896256 | Sheet transport apparatus and image formation apparatus therewith A sheet transport apparatus comprises a predetermined number of transport members 2 disposed in a sheet transport passage 1. At least a part of the transport members 2 is a multi-direction transport member 4 for variably setting the trans... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6866261 | Device for laterally aligning sheets in sheet-processing machines, especially printing presses A device for laterally aligning sheets in sheet-processing machines includes a pulling device having a drivable transport roller and a dabber roller mounted on a pivotable lever. A spring system cooperates with the lever for adjusting a pressing force between the ro... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6851878 | Print media positioning system and method One embodiment of a positioning system for positioning a sheet of print media within a print media handling mechanism comprises a drive shaft that rotates about a drive shaft axis of rotation; and a drive roller mounted on the drive shaft, the drive roller driven by... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6712356 | Self aligning transport mechanism for media of variable media widths Apparatus and method for aligning media. The device includes a passageway and at least one rotor. The rotor may have a surface shaped to drive a media in an intermittent fashion, or a plurality of rotors may contact the media in an intermittent fashion. Intermittent... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6616139 | Device for removing printed products transported uniformly spaced on a transport device A device for removing printed products, having a fold and being transported uniformly spaced and astraddle by a transport device, has a rotatingly driven gripping device with controlled gripping elements for gripping one of the printed products by the fol... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6241242 | Deskew of print media A print media deskew apparatus includes a print media support having a first surface defining a plane for a print media transport path and a second surface parallel to the print media transport path and two apertures in the first surface aligned in the pr... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6118465 | Synchronous band drive for an inline color printer A single pass color printer employs a band drive to move media sheets through plural developer stations. The band drive also provides motive power to drive, in common (via frictional engagement with their respective peripheries), all of the organic photoc... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6059285 | Sheet conveying apparatus The present invention provides a sheet conveying apparatus, and an image reading apparatus and an image forming apparatus having such a sheet conveying apparatus, in which skew correction of a sheet can be effected with high accuracy. A sheet convey means... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6032949 | Sheet conveying device and sheet processing apparatus In a sheet conveying device, sheets having of various width sizes can be adjusted to sheet conveyance reference of a regulating device without moving the regulating device in the lateral direction of a sheet. An image forming apparatus uses two kinds or s... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5992846 | Sheet feeder and printer A sheet feeder includes a feed roller and pressure rollers for feeding a sheet of paper through the nips each between the feed roller and one of the pressure rollers. The feeder also includes a sheet passage for feeding a sheet of paper through it with an... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5967511 | Sheet registration assembly including a force reducing deskew roll A sheet registration and deskew assembly including a force reducing deskew roll having deflectable ribs, and alternating grooves for enabling the ribs to deflect once the sheet is in resisting contact against a registration edge guide member of the regist... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5820123 | Method and device for aligning a sheet on a feeder table of a sheet-fed rotary printing press Method for laterally aligning a sheet to be aligned at front lays in a revolving direction of the sheet includes, in a first alignment step, moving the sheet against a side stop; in a second alignment step, moving the sheet against front lays; and in a th... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5695186 | Apparatus and method for collating random arrays of sheets to ordered stacks Sheet collation apparatus and method operate on a random array of seriatim sheets to effect ordered stack collation. An edge guide surface is located along a sheet support surface extending from a sheet ingress to egress. A plurality of conical rollers ar... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5683078 | Adjustable skew offset device An adjustable skew offset device includes a tapered roll as a paper drive roll and a line contact idler roll which is axially adjustable. With these two rolls forming a nip, paper passing therethrough can be purposely skewed clockwise or counterclockwise ... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5601283 | Cross roll registration deskew based on paper weight A sheet handler for deskewing and registering sheets en route to a processing station in an image processing apparatus includes cross rolls that drive each copy sheet against a registration edge for deskewing purposes. The angle of a driven one of the cro... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5540425 | Article depositing apparatus A deposit processing module comprising a first transport having a first end for receiving envelopes and single document deposits and a second end from which the deposits are discharged, and a second transport operatively positioned for receiving and retur... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5484142 | Device for driving documents guided by one edge on a reference plane A device for driving documents having one edge in contact with a reference plane includes a drive roller having its axis perpendicular to the reference plane, and an idle roller pressing a drive document against the drive roller. The axis of the idle roll... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5431388 | Device for the transfer of sets of sheets coming from a printing or copying machine to a finishing machine In order to make it unnecessary to shift a finishing machine (12) out of a position adjacent to a printing or copying machine (10) the invention provides a transfer device for sets of sheets leaving the printing or copying machine (10) for the set finishi... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5280901 | Sheet variable corrugating and feeding nip A sheet feeding and corrugating system, especially for output of image substrate sheets of a reproduction apparatus, wherein the sheets are fed in a normal path through a sheet feeding nip comprising plural spaced sheet feeding rollers. Both feeding and v... | 01/25/1994 |
| 5251893 | Mechanism for inserting a flat object into a processing device for processing said object A mechanism for inserting a flat object into a processing device for processing the object, the processing device including a fixed frame having an insertion slot via which the object is inserted, the slot forming a passage having a wall which is perpendi... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5219159 | Translating nip registration device An apparatus to bilaterally register and deskew sheets in an electrophotographic printing machine by driving the sheet against a pair of stalled drive rolls and then activating the drive rolls when the sheet is deskewed. The drive rolls are then laterally... | 06/15/1993 |
| 5188468 | Transport device A transport device consists of a drive roller and a follower roller. The medium to be transported, for example a card, is inserted between the two rollers. The follower roller is able to pivot on its mountings in order to bring the medium to a predetermin... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5167410 | Device for conveying and aligning sheets on a feed table of a printing machine A device conveys and aligns sheets on a feed table of a printing machine having a single-sheet feeder, an aligning section, and a conveying device revolving on shafts for conveying the sheets in a direction across the aligning section to feed rollers for ... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5065998 | Lateral sheet registration system A simplified low cost, low wear, sheet registration and feeding system for laterally (side) registering a sheet without frictional drive slippage against the sheet and while maintaining feeding control in the primary forward feeding direction of the sheet... | 11/19/1991 |
| 4896875 | Copy sheet pull guide mechanism A pull guide mechanism for moving a copy sheet transversely of a conveyor board into proper registration in a printing, duplicating or like machine. A drive wheel is rotatably mounted in the conveyor board and a pressure wheel is disposed above the convey... | 01/30/1990 |
| 4889240 | Bill handling apparatus having right and left bill-shifting mechanisms A circulation-type bill deposit and dispensing apparatus, is provided with a shift mechanism which moves the bills to a predetermined position to the left or right side with respect to their feed direction so as to eliminate dispersion of bills in the lat... | 12/26/1989 |
| 4836527 | Side edge registration system Side registration of a moving sheet against a registration bar or abutment line may be accomplished by a roll nip that is slightly angled toward the registration line, and is thereafter self-pivotable from that angle to one angle nearly in alignment with ... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4833989 | Axially shiftable sheet gripper assembly An axially shiftable sheet gripper assembly includes cooperating gripper fingers and gripper abutment surfaces mounted on an axially slidable carriage. The carriage is located in a groove in a sheet transfer drum and carries a control roller at one end. T... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4824095 | Device for positioning a thin object of low stiffness The device comprises a conveyor (A) driven with a reciprocating movement by means of a jack (V1) and on which the object (T) is placed in any way, wherein a stationary stop (CO), located crosswise with respect to said movement, acts as a deviating means a... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4736940 | Apparatus for aligning an opening of a sack Apparatus for aligning a sack disposed at the leading end of a series of shingled sacks, which have been unwound from a roll of shingled sacks and which have openings at their leading ends. The sack is aligned by transversely spaced gripping rollers that ... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4702469 | Apparatus and method for aligning sheets A device for aligning sheets fed by a sheet feeder to a sheet-processing machine includes a suction pull bar located in an aligning region of the sheet feeder, drive device for reciprocatingly displacing the suction pull bar in the plane of a sheet transv... | 10/27/1987 |
