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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7014187 | Vacuum plenum system for facilitating the high-speed conveyance of mail pieces A new and improved article or mail-piece conveyor system has a vacuum plenum system integrally incorporated therein which effectively withdraws ambient air ahead or downstream of the oncoming conveyed articles or mail pieces such that the oncoming conveyed articles ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7000917 | Sheet-guiding device in a sheet-processing machine A sheet-guiding device in a sheet-processing machine, in particular a sheet-fed rotary printing press, includes gripper devices disposed on revolving components of the sheet-processing machine for guiding the sheets to be printed on an air cushion formed by blast ai... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6769677 | Device for transporting and reading flat material A device for reading flat material having an endless perforated belt, guided over two rollers, one of which is driven. Material is brought from a feeder to an inlet arranged on both sides of the rollers and the belt transports the material to an outlet. The material... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6572095 | Method of and system for conveying sheet to be scanned A sheet to be scanned is conveyed to a sheet holding device provided with a support member having an arcuate and concave sheet holding surface and a sheet holding mechanism for holding the sheet on the sheet holding surface in which the sheet is conveyed ... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6450496 | Variable cross-section vacuum grooves in an external drum imaging system A method and apparatus for holding recording media against a media support surface of an imaging system using an arrangement of variable cross-section vacuum grooves. Each vacuum groove has a continuously decreasing cross-section along its length. Each va... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6254091 | Variable cross-section vacuum grooves in an imaging system A method and apparatus for holding recording media against a media support surface of an imaging system using an arrangement of variable cross-section vacuum grooves. Each vacuum groove has a continuously decreasing cross-section along its length. Each va... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6182959 | Method and devices for conveyance of sheets The invention relates to a method for conveyance of sheets, in which said sheets are advanced or slowed down in such a manner that a distance is altered. A value of said change in distance can be preselected.... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6092894 | Printing medium holding apparatus for a printer using air suction force Suction ports (14) are provided in one end (15R) of a drum (10), connecting the interior (16) and exterior of the drum (10). Corresponding suction ports (34) are provided at a stationary side (5R), opposing the suction ports (14), respectively. A suction ... | 07/25/2000 |
| 5690327 | Lifting shoe for media handling and related cassette media holder A system for light-tight handling of a supply of media between a supply station, a workstation and a collecting station, comprises a media handling apparatus defined by a frame and a housing enclosing an internal confine. Within this confine are a supply ... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5676362 | Vacuum-type transport device for printing units for packaging cardboard sheets A vacuum-type transport device, used in cardboard printing units, comprising: a support structure; a suction hood; a vacuum fan; a plurality of plates on the lower surface of the suction hood; a first and a second plurality of belt-type conveyor means, wi... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5484139 | System for handling curved form media and cassette therefor A media handling unit is a selfcontained device which is capable of being moved to existing photoplotting structures to transport media sheets from a supply cassette housed within the unit and advanced into the plotter for conducting a plotting operation.... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5037079 | Vacuum platen transport plenum vacuum shutter A mechanism for shuttering of vacuum ports of a vacuum platen transport (VPT) plenum in correspondence with the size of the documents being transported from the document tray of a recirculating document handler. The shuttering mechanism is coupled to a mo... | 08/06/1991 |
| 4353538 | Input-output device for photographic film materials The invention relates to an input/output device for unexposed or latently exposed photographic sheet material for use in combination with photographic material evaluation devices. The invention comprises a flat light-tight cartridge having an opening, a f... | 10/12/1982 |
