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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8006975 | Method and apparatus for conveying a sheet back into the overlapping stream in the event of a machine stop A method and an apparatus are provided to convey and align sheets being fed to a processing machine. In the event of a machine “stop,” a sheet, which has been separated from an overlapping stream, is conveyed back into the overlapping stream by raising the rear ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7735825 | Original feeding device In one embodiment of the original feeding device of the present invention, an original feeding device causes a drawing roller to contact an original, and draws the original for forwarding by rotating the drawing roller, and is provided with an original pressing memb... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7631868 | Scuffer apparatus and method A retractable scuffer includes an arm with foldaway drive wheels connected thereto that are independently pivotable to ensure even drive force on a sheet. The drive wheels flips down in a counter clockwise direction as the scuffer arm is driven to an extended positi... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7540496 | Sheet carrying device with tilted skew correction and force releasing carriers After detecting an anterior end of a photosensitive material with a sensor, a controlling unit controls a release unit to release a nip of a carrying roller pair carrying the photosensitive material. The nip of the carrying roller pair is released in accordance with... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7344016 | Method and device for orienting flat items of mail towards a narrow edge A method and device are disclosed for orienting flat items of mail towards a narrow edge in a U-shaped conveying channel in which they are conveyed in an upright position and without being jammed. Before the items pass the conveying channel for the purpose of alignm... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7281711 | Blowing-air holding-down arrangement and sheet-aligning device provided therewith The holding-down arrangement for holding down a sheet (24) in a sheet-bearing region of a sheet-processing machine, in particular of a folding machine, includes a plurality of blowing devices (19, 21) which, during use, are directed toward a sheet (... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7252285 | Method and apparatus for aligning a media sheet An alignment device for aligning a manually loaded media sheet to a printer feed path has at least one registration feature disposed to register the trailing edge of the media sheet to the feed path. By aligning the trailing edge, an orthogonal media sheet is loaded... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7201371 | Automatic paper-feeding structure The invention is an automatic paper-feeding structure, which includes: a lifting member, which is arranged at the paper-feeding side of this automatic paper-feeding structure, and on which plural document papers are supported, and which may make the plural document ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7080831 | Sheet-sorting apparatus A sheet-sorting apparatus has a stacking tray to stack sheets formed with indicia thereupon, a processing tray to receive said sheets in the process leading to said stacking tray, and when necessary, a path to discharge directly to said stacking tray and a path to d... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7063015 | Sheet support for printing press A sheet support bridging a pair of parallel longitudinally extending and transversely spaced guides has a stack of substantially identical and transversely extending support elements having transversely opposite ends slidable along the guides and a flexible connecti... | 06/20/2006 |
| 6945528 | Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet feeding apparatus includes a sheet stacking unit, sheet feeding unit, and a sheet support member. Sheets are stacked on the sheet stacking unit. The sheet feeding unit is placed to be movable in the widthwise direction of the sheets stacked on the sheet stac... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6921070 | Method and device for feeding sheets to a printing-technology machine A method of feeding sheets to a printing-technology machine includes individually separating sheets from a sheet pile, conveying the sheets against movable lays for effecting an alignment thereof, and cyclically conveying the sheets from the lays to the machine. A c... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6715754 | Device for deviating an overlapping stream on a roller table A device is provided for diverting an imbricated flow of printed products that is transported on a roller table having a plurality of rollers arranged one behind the other. The device comprises an elongated adjustment member whose position can be varied within a sli... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6702280 | Apparatus and process for transporting sheet-shaped print materials According to one aspect of the invention, an apparatus and process are provided for transporting sheet-shaped print material. A first transport element and a first contact element are actuated to transport a sheet-shaped print material with alignment agai... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6681697 | Device for aligning sheets in a feeder of a sheet-processing machine, especially a printing press A device for aligning sheets on a feeder of a sheet-processing machine includes a plurality of pivotably disposed front lays and a plurality of pivotably disposed top lays, the top lays being vertically adjustable. The front lays and the top lays are resp... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6619648 | Sheet processing apparatus A sheet-sorting apparatus has a stacking tray to stack sheets formed with indicia thereupon, a processing tray to receive said sheets in the process leading to said stacking tray, and when necessary, a path to discharge directly to said stacking tray and ... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6561502 | Double-layered width-adjustable inserter tracks A document transporter apparatus for use on an envelope inserter comprises a first track, for moving a first type of document, mounted to the envelope inserter, a second track, for moving a second type of document, mounted above the first track, and a mec... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6250630 | Electronically actuated turning device for transport apparatus An electronically actuated turning device for transport apparatus, which apparatus use endless belts for transport, which detects the presence of products being transported such as paper folders, activates a solenoid to cause an upper swivel ball to conta... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6244592 | Sheet feeding apparatus for a corrugated fiberboard container making machine The present invention provides a sheet feeding apparatus for a corrugated fiberboard box making machine, which has front stops disposed at two locations spaced in the width direction (transverse direction) to true up the front edges of stacked corrugated ... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6237911 | Sheet material guide A sheet material guide (1) for guiding banknotes as a sheet material to a banknote processor used for service machines such as an automatic vending machine, an exchanging machine, pachinko ball dispensing machine and a medal dispensing machine, wherein a ... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6213464 | Image forming apparatus A skew feed or damage in the sheet in automatic feeding is avoided. In an image forming apparatus provided with a printer for recording an image, the printer is provided with a feeding port for enabling manual insert sheet feeding and an automatic sheet f... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6209866 | Document alignment system A document alignment system comprises a feed system (6), defining an elongate path, for feeding documents along the path. The feed system is adjustable to vary the orientation of the elongate path in a lateral plain so as to cause a document to undergo a ... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6206367 | Automatic sheet feeder for ink jet printer An automatic sheet feeder for an ink jet printer is disclosed. The automatic sheet feeder includes a sheet support fixed to a frame. A shaft is rotatably secured to an upper portion of the sheet support, and rotates in a specified direction by a driving f... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6164642 | Banknote centering device for a validator A banknote centering device uses a clutch arrangement to limit inward movement of side engaging plates used to center a banknote. The clutch also allows a fixed cycle motor to be used for both inward and outward movement of the side engaging numbers. The ... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6131899 | Sheet supplying apparatus A sheet supplying apparatus includes a sheet supporter for supporting sheets, a supply rotary device for feeding out the sheets supported by the sheet supporter, a separation member for separating sheets fed by the supply rotary device one by one by elast... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6123331 | Sheet joggler system Sheet joggler system with an inlet roller pair (70, 70'), an outlet roller pair (71, 71'), sheet guides (48, 49) determining a curved sheet path between these roller pairs, a sheet supporting plate (65) between the inlet roller pair and the sheet guides, ... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6082731 | Medium processing apparatus and a medium positioning mechanism A medium processing apparatus includes a medium feed path in a main body of an medium processing apparatus, a medium positioning mechanism provided in the main body of the medium processing apparatus adjacent to the medium feed path for causing a centerin... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6050561 | Sheet media input apparatus An input apparatus of the invention can selectively receive at least one sheet medium or an envelope containing a sheet medium therein. The apparatus includes a transfer path for transferring at least one medium and an envelope, a width guide disposed in ... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6000692 | Paper switching device for printer A paper switching device with a simplified structure and assembly that facilitates the conveyance of thick paper such as envelopes and post cards, preventing jamming during paper. conveyance. The device includes, a recess which is formed at one side on a ... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5975524 | Sheet-guiding device assembly with a sheet hold-downer Sheet-guiding device assembly includes at least one sheet hold-downer disposed on a movable protective guard.... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5842415 | Pull lay adjusting device Pull lays on a feed table of a sheet-fed rotary printing machine are adjusted by a pulling device for laterally aligning sheets thereon. A spindle, which extends transversely to the travel direction, displaces the pull lays for adjusting to a sheet format... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5829741 | Sheet-guiding device assembly with a sheet hold-downer Sheet-guiding device assembly of a sheet-processing machine includes at least one sheet hold-downer disposed on a movable protective guard. The guard is swivellably or slidingly supported. The guard may be formed with an aperture in which the sheet hold-d... | 11/03/1998 |
| 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 |
| 5788228 | Electronically actuated turning device for transport apparatus An electronically actuated turning device for transport apparatus which receives product such as paper folders, detects the presence of the product, causes a ball to contact the product and allows the product to rotate 90 degrees, releases the ball and al... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5749294 | Device for centrally adjusting sheet-guiding elements of a sheet-fed rotary printing press Printing press having a device for centrally adjusting sheet-guiding elements located both on the drive and the control or operating sides of the printing press, the adjusting device including adjusting members for respectively driving the sheet-guiding e... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5692746 | Sheet rotator and justifier A sheet justifier provides a table having at least one rotational surface thereon that is substantially aligned with the table. A sheet is input to the table into contact with the rotational surface. A weighted ball is positioned over the rotating surface... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5685537 | Cross-track and skew justification of cut sheets A justification apparatus, which receives cut sheets of different widths along a path in an in-track direction of travel, aligns the sheets relative to an in-track axis. The apparatus includes a tray having a planar surface for receiving unconstrained she... | 11/11/1997 |
| 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 |
| 5651544 | Device for avoiding registration errors in a sheet-processing machine Device for avoiding registration errors at an oscillating pregripper of a sheet-processing machine includes a gripper bar deflectable in synchronism with the machine so that a respective sheet being processed therein undergoes stretching in a trailing reg... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5628504 | Side guide for a mail handling machine A side guide for a mailing machine includes a main wall, a secondary wall spaced from the main wall and moveable between an operative position and an inoperative position, and structure for allowing movement of the main and secondary walls in a direction ... | 05/13/1997 |
