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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7823880 | Stepper mechanism A stepper mechanism for transporting a substrate along a linear transport path, which includes a stationary member and first and second transport members, extending widthwise across the transport path, the stationary member and transport members each being adapted t... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7341000 | Slipsheet compactor system A slip-sheet compactor for an imaging device with automatic media handling capabilities provides a two-stage compaction for a slipsheet removed from a media sheet to be imaged. A pair of rollers advances the slipsheet into a pre-compression chamber effecting a first... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7182339 | Thickness measuring system, having improved software, for use within a mail handling system, and method of using same A thickness measuring device for measuring the thickness dimension of an article being conveyed along a conveyor system comprises a rotary encoder, and a lever arm pivotally mounted upon the shaft of the rotary encoder. The lever arm has an end portion thereof dispo... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7159438 | Transfer press with improved use of space A transfer press provided with a transfer device, having transfer units provided with cross members (37) for which the length is shorter than the width of a tool. The transfer units (29 to 32) are arranged completely between the processing stati... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7075210 | Discharging circuit for a piezoelectric device In a piezoelectric actuator, a first driving signal amplified a predetermined sine wave is applied to a piezoelectric device in a direction parallel to a polarization direction thereof. A second driving signal having a negative phase with respect to the first drivin... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6942216 | Device and method for distributing a predetermined number of sheets from a group of sheets path The present invention relates to a method and a device for distributing a predetermined number of sheets (410, 412, 414, 416) from a group of sheets in which a plurality of sheets is arranged in a shingled mode of arrangement in a sheet transport direction (P... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6871592 | Method for moving printing plates into and out of exposure device A method, an apparatus, and a loader for moving (e.g., transporting) a printing plate into an exposer for printing plates and, after exposure, out of the exposer and into a processor, for example, saves space in the region of the exposer when moving the printing pla... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6829065 | Glass supporting device of scanner A glass supporting device of a scanner comprises an upper cover, a lower cover, a front cover, and a glass sheet. The upper and lower covers, and the front cover can be integrated. The lateral sides of the upper cover are installed with a plurality of sliding tracks... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6698754 | Delivery table The invention relates to a delivery table (1) for flat material (2), in particular sheet paper, with a safeguard so that the material (2) does not slide on the delivery table (1). Exact and stable positioning of the flat material (2) is achieved in that t... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6676125 | Actuator-gripper control A pre-gripper driving device for a pre-gripper cyclically driven oscillatingly and serving for transporting individual sheets in a sheet-processing machine, includes sheet grippers disposed at a free end of a rocking lever pivotable about a pivot pin fixe... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6585253 | Feeder with vibrating separating device A paper feeder for use in an image forming apparatus is disclosed. The paper feeder applies vibration to paper sheets being paid out together to thereby reduce an adhering force acting between them. The paper feeder therefore reduces the simultaneous feed... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6173953 | Simple paper indexer An indexing mechanism for advancing a substrate in a first direction is disclosed. The mechanism includes a guide for guiding the substrate along a substrate path and an urging member. The urging member is movable in a direction skewed with respect to the... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6152444 | Shuttling media movement system for hardcopy devices A shuttling media movement system moves media in a hardcopy device, such as an inkjet printing mechanism, a facsimile machine or a multi-function device. The shuttling media movement system has a first member with a first set of fingers for periodically s... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6135437 | Device and method for transporting sheets singly separated from a sheet pile A device for transporting to a printing press, sheets singly separated from a sheet pile, includes an electromagnetic linear drive mechanism; and a method of operation of the device.... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6086065 | Apparatus for feeding sheets from a sheet store An arrangement for feeding sheets from a sheet store to either one of a plurality of stations includes a movable carriage which receives sheets fed from the store and which has driving cogwheels for coaction with a fixed cog railway outside the carriage. ... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6003863 | Apparatus and method for conveying a flexible sheet through manufacturing processes A flexible sheet to which manufacturing processes are to be applied is tensioned within a carrying fixture having tacky surfaces to which the flexible sheet is fastened. One version of the fixture includes an "L"-shaped attachment surface on a frame membe... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5979892 | Controlled cilia for object manipulation Controlled cilia are provided to move an object. Each of the cilia, which are made of an elastic material, are fixed over a substrate and moved between a relaxed position away from the substrate and a retracted position near the substrate to move an objec... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5964568 | Device for gripping and handling pieces of sheet material and manipulator of pieces of sheet material comprising this device The device comprises a transfer unit with a block (44) containing wells (48) in which suckers (50) are located. The wells (48) comprise a border (72) made of a sealing and friction material. The peripheral wall (60) of the sucker (50) is flexible enough t... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5848785 | Sheet material feeding and unloading apparatus Apparatus for feeding and unloading sheets of material, including a first sheet attraction device for lifting a topmost sheet from a stack; a device for checking that only a single sheet has been lifted; and a second sheet attraction device movable betwee... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5743519 | U-turn high capacity sheet feeder for fax machine or printers A U-turn high capacity sheet feeder including: a sheet storing tray for holding a stack of sheets of paper, having a stack advancing spring for advancing a stack of sheets of paper; a transfer roll; a feed roll and a drive mechanism controlled to separate... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5695187 | Eject mechanism for an image input device An image input device is provided with an engagement assembly that releasably engages a document to hold the document on a carriage against the bias force of a biasing member. The engagement assembly includes a stop assembly that releasably engages the do... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5642949 | Sheet feeding apparatus having vibration actuators The printing apparatus or the sheet feeding apparatus disclosed here which employs vibration driven actuators as driving sources has a circuit for detecting the characteristics of the actuator during preparatory operation performed previous to the regular... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5626091 | System for supplying and setting materials in a condition to be sewn by a sewing machine A system for supplying and setting two separate base materials in a neat condition ready to be sewn by a sewing machine, which includes a supplying mechanism and a setting mechanism. A first one of the two base materials is automatically supplied by opera... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5499808 | Sheet feeding apparatus A sheet feeding apparatus includes a vibration member having an upper surface, a bottom surface, an inner circumferential portion and an outer circumferential portion, and further having a first portion in press contact with the sheet being fed and a seco... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5467975 | Apparatus and method for moving a substrate A device for moving an object, such as a sheet of paper or other substrate, includes a base element, a drive mechanism to move the base element in first and second directions, such as by vibration, and a plurality of flexible ratchets fixedly secured to t... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5464291 | Printing apparatus A printing apparatus is provided. A vibrator comprising an elastic member and an electric/mechanical energy converting device jointed to the elastic member is attached to a carriage on which a printing head is mounted. The vibrator generates a progressive... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5431382 | Fabric panel feed system A fabric panel loader for automatically feeding a fabric panel from a stack of fabric pieces to a work station. The apparatus includes a fabric pickup assembly for removing the fabric panel from the stack of fabric pieces and transferring the panel to a s... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5430520 | Method and apparatus for developing photosensitive material The exposed photosensitive materials are staggered into two lines, while being fed to the developing unit, for higher efficiency in development. The carrier unit B has a staggering unit and a parallel carrier path having a pair of parallel paths. The stag... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5407190 | Method of and apparatus for positioning photosensitive sheets Successive or selected sheets of a series of exposed sheets of photosensitive material which are to enter a developing machine are shifted sideways through identical distances or through randomly selected distances so that each next-following sheet partia... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5360508 | Applying apparatus An applying apparatus for applying films to a panel includes a film feed device for feeding leading edges of the films to a tentative applying position of applying the edges to the panel, an applying device for applying the films to the panel, and a movab... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5348287 | Sheet feeding apparatus using a vibration wave to convey sheets A sheet feeding apparatus in which vibration members of the running track type to form travelling waves are arranged in the vertical direction so as to face each other and a sheet sandwiched between them is fed by frictional forces is disclosed. In order ... | 09/20/1994 |
| 5342039 | Sheet handling device and method for transporting sheets A sheet transport for transporting sheets across a surface which includes an elongated member supported for transverse movement across the surface. The transport further includes a fibrous material which comprises a base substrate portion carried by the m... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5273268 | Sheet member grasping device for supply apparatus A device for grasping a sheet member includes a support unit, a pair of grasping units having sharp pawls, respectively, and supported by the support unit rotatably about parallel pivot axes, respectively, and a pivotally rotating unit for rotating the gr... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5265865 | Stimulable phosphor sheet feeding and storing mechanism and stimulable phosphor sheet cassette A stimulable phosphor sheet cassette has a light-tight casing which has an opening through which a stimulable phosphor sheet can be got in and out of the casing by moving the stimulable phosphor sheet in a direction parallel to the surface thereof and a l... | 11/30/1993 |
| 5249795 | Sheet feeding apparatus The present invention provides a sheet feeding apparatus comprising a feeding device for feeding a sheet, in which the sheet (member to be fed) is urged against surfaces of elastic members that are opposed to surfaces on which vibration elements are fixed... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5238237 | Sheet handling apparatus In order to move a piece of fabric (1) over a work table (2) using a gantry robot (4), a gripper (7) comprising a flat foam-covered plate is lowered on to the fabric by the robot shaft (6). It is found that the best control over the fabric is obtained by ... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5207413 | Vacuum sheet film transport and method A vacuum platen serially picks up a sheet of film from a stack of unexposed sheets of film, transports the sheet of film to a large format camera for exposure, retains the sheet of film planar during exposure, transports the sheet of film to a stack of ex... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5176376 | Vibration sheet feeder Disclosed is feeding apparatus comprising a first vibration apparatus having projections provided with a predetermined distance therebetween, the first vibration apparatus producing a first travelling vibration wave in response to an electrical signal app... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5163667 | Sheet transfer device with suction table on a machine producing package A suction table which, in a machine converting sheets into package, transfers the last, lowermost sheet of a batch to a subsequent processing station. The table is provided with numerous blowing and sucking nozzles and is fitted on a hollow frame movable ... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5149080 | Vibratory sheet feeder A vibratory feeder for sheets includes sheet conveying members for holding and conveying the sheet utilizing travelling waves, a sheet feed detection member for detecting a feed of the sheet, and a drive control circuit for applying alternating electrical... | 09/22/1992 |
