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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 6598874 | Method and device for contact-free retention of sheets A method of retaining a sheet on at least one of a transfer cylinder and a guide surface of a sheet-guiding device in a sheet-processing machine by pneumatically activatable nozzles for producing an air cushion beneath the respective sheet, which comprise... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6354590 | Rotary bin sorter A multiple bin sorter for use with an image forming device in which the bins rotate through a sheet receiving position and, as may be necessary or desirable, through other positions to accommodate a variety of different finishing operations. The sorter in... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6066785 | Method for producing hybrid plants using fertility selective growth media A method of producing hybrid plants involves inducing cross-pollination of self-pollinating species by selecting a female plant and a male plant having different genotypes, the female plant having a phenotype of sensitivity to a micronutrient deficiency, ... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6017030 | High speed feeder A device for feeding flat, flexible products from the bottom of a stack. The stack is supported by rollers arranged like spokes in a wheel that is continuously rotating. Feeding occurs when a vacuum cup pulls the leading edge of a product between subseque... | 01/25/2000 |
| 5895043 | Device for feeding a conveying apparatus An arrangement for feeding a conveying apparatus comprising hoppers for flat products such as envelopes, mailing pouches, workpieces and the like, which can be emptied at certain intervals and are secured on a rotatably driven traction element. A device i... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5887869 | Method and apparatus for collecting and transporting copy or print jobs The apparatus for carrying out the method comprises a plurality of delivery trays arranged in the manner of a circulating bucket lift, which on the basis of user inputs can be freely selected and transported to a loading plane in which an inlet opening fo... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5556087 | Apparatus for processing printed products The apparatus for processing printed products includes receiving compartments that are arranged one behind the other in the direction of rotation and are moved, with their outer opening, past the discharge end of a belt conveyor. Arranged at the opening o... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5331389 | Image forming apparatus with sheet discharging device An image forming apparatus is provided with a rotatable upper cover, one surface of which serves as a first exit tray on which recording sheets are discharged with image sides face downward, the other surface of which serves as a second exit tray on which... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5240245 | Container for receiving bank notes in a bank note dispensing device A container (10) for receiving bank notes in a bank note dispensing device has a closable housing (12) with an intake opening (20) for the bank notes. Two driven, cooperating draw-in rollers (22,24) in the region of or in the intake opening (20) delimit a... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5013023 | Temporary slip stacking apparatus operable in a first-in first-out mode An apparatus for receiving slips and stacking the slips temporarily therein to process them or to exchange them for another kind of slips, and having a stop and guide which defines a transport path for receiving and transporting a slip, a stationary stori... | 05/07/1991 |
| 4729554 | Method and apparatus for inserting at least one insert into preferably folded printed products The printed products to be provided with inserts or supplements are infed in respective pairs by an infeed conveyor to a processing drum or cell wheel. The cell wheel comprises substantially radially extending compartments which are open at the periphery ... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4709910 | Removable divider wall cell wheel apparatus for processing printed products In the substantially radially extending compartments of a cell wheel or drum of a processing apparatus for processing printed products, there are inserted removable divider or partition walls. The removable divider or partition walls divide each of the co... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4678179 | Copying machine with a rotary sorter having sheet gripping devices A sorting apparatus arranged to receive a stream of sheets for collating the same into booklets having a rotary sorter comprised of a plurality of bins each of which includes a sheet clamping device to hold sheets in registered orientation in the bins. Co... | 07/07/1987 |
| 4582421 | Copying machine with rotary sorter and adhesive binding apparatus A finishing station is disclosed as having a rotary sorter arranged to receive a stream of sheets at a loading station and to collate them into booklets or copy sets. An adhesive binder is positioned at an unloading station and is arranged for movement to... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4486011 | Method and apparatus for opening multi-sheet products, especially printed products The printed product to be opened is moved with an open side thereof towards a stationary opening element. The bottom part of the printed product contains at an open side, located opposite to a fold of the printed product, a marginal zone or portion by mea... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4473223 | Sorter for collating sheets into sets A sorter for collating sheets into sets comprises a plurality of sheet-receiving bins defined by an array of movable plates 1-5, 5a and an indexing wheel 23 for indexing the input ends of the bin plates sequentially past a fixed feed throat 22 to align th... | 09/25/1984 |
| 4398712 | Sheet sorters A sheet sorter which has a plurality of sheet receiving bins which comprises an array of movable plates such that adjacent plates define an individual bin, is provided with a quadrant plate for indexing the input ends of the bin plates past a fixed feed t... | 08/16/1983 |
| 4145038 | Rotary drum collator-sorter A sheet handling machine having the dual capability of either collating or sorting sheet material into individual booklets or collations. The machine has a plurality of sheet receiving bins arranged within a rotary drum operatively associated with infeed ... | 03/20/1979 |
| 4099810 | Upright document carousel Apparatus for storing documents includes a cylindrical housing and, in the housing, an upright carousel having a number of radially disposed pockets. The housing has a horizontally and radially extending opening on a vertical wall and a horizontal opening... | 07/11/1978 |
| 4058202 | Apparatus for processing products especially printed products An apparatus for processing printed products wherein the product copies are introduced at an infeed location into individual compartments of a revolving cell wheel, processed during the time they are present in the compartments and removed from the compar... | 11/15/1977 |
| 4050751 | Document carousel Apparatus for storing documents includes a carousel having a number of pockets and a structure for covering the pockets, the structure having a pair of openings through which documents may be moved into or out of the pockets. A drive is available for sepa... | 09/27/1977 |
| 3951399 | Article-handling apparatus Apparatus for handling articles, e.g. newspapers or magazines, having a rotatable member divided into a number of axially-adjacent units. Each unit is divided into a number of radially-extending compartments having feeding devices for transferring article... | 04/20/1976 |
| 3938801 | Continuous operating collator This invention is for a collator for business papers wherein multiple copies and multiple pages are prepared. The collator, for the same page, can run continuously thereby saving time and money and paper. The collator comprises bins, arranged with one bin... | 02/17/1976 |
| 3930581 | Sheet feeding mechanisms A sheet feeding mechanism is described in which the sheets in a batch of sheets are sorted into different output stackers. The sheet feeding mechanism includes a buffer store for receiving and temporarily holding a batch of sheets while a predetermined ba... | 01/06/1976 |
