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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8132805 | Method and apparatus for feeding sheets to a processing machine In a method and an apparatus for feeding sheets to a processing machine, in particular a printing press, provision is made for the sheet to be accelerated to processing speed by use of at least two acceleration stations arranged one after the other. One of the accel... | 03/13/2012 |
| 7694949 | Custodial lapped stream mechanism A device is provided for transferring printed sheet material products including a gripper conveyor having a plurality of grippers for gripping a plurality of printed sheet material products, a sheet conveyor for receiving the plurality of products from the plurality... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7360759 | Apparatus for transferring products to a conveying arrangement The invention relates to an apparatus by means of which sheet like products which follow one after the other along a feed section are transferred to a conveying arrangement with individually controllable grippers which can be moved in the conveying direction, are ar... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7267333 | Power transmission device and sheet feeding apparatus equipped therewith A power transmission device includes a driving gear having gears over an entire circumferential surface thereof, a follower gear including an intermittent gear having a toothless portion, and a controller for controlling the follower gear to be engaged with or disen... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7204486 | Sheet discharging apparatus A sheet discharging apparatus is constructed of a sorting device and a reversible conveying device. Normal sheets are fed by the sorting device and conveyed in an arrangement in zigzag in two rows and conveyed on a primary path. Near an exit of the primary path, the... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7089711 | Feeder provided with automatic size recognition for a packaging line A feeder for feeding products to be dispatched, such as, for instance, documents, periodicals, CDs, DVDs, and the like, to a conveyor of a packaging line, provided with transport pushers, the feeder being provided with a magazine for storing a stack of products, the... | 08/15/2006 |
| 6799008 | Electro photo multi functional peripheral apparatus An electro photo multi functional peripheral apparatus comprises a main body which is provided with an optional device such as a duplex module, a sorter, a power stacker and a large scale paper feeding unit at one side thereof. A feeding unit for feeding a recording... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6746010 | Apparatus for conveying sheet-like recording material An apparatus for conveying a sheet-like recording material is provided. The conveying apparatus includes a recording material feeding device for feeding the sheet-like recording material to a rotating drum from a feeding guide disposed in a direction tangential to t... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6644187 | Printer and sheet conveying device therefor A printer of the present invention includes a chain-delivery type of sheet conveying device arranged in an image transfer region that adjoins image transfer drums. The sheet conveying device includes a pair of drive pulleys, a pair of driven pulleys, a pa... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6406014 | Method and apparatus for transporting objects arriving in an overlapping formation Flat rectangular objects, such as printed products, arrive in an overlapping formation and have a specific first extent A1 and a variable second extent A2, A2 ' running at right angles thereto. The objects 10 are conveyed ... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6347793 | Method and apparatus for constraining the open edge of a signature during transfer An apparatus and method designed to eliminate dog-earring of the comers of the open edges of a folded signature or book without the need for the use of electrostatic adherence. A guide mechanism is provided between a tape drive, a divert cylinder and/or a... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6293535 | Device for individualizing blanks of paper, plastic, or similar materials An individualization and transport device for blanks has a vacuum feeder with an endless belt circulating in a timed drive cycle in a transport direction. The endless belt of the vacuum feeder has an upper belt portion and a lower belt portion. An individ... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6290227 | Clamp for holding flat objects Both limbs of the clamp (2, 3), which are pivotally arranged on the axis of a bearing, are rotated from a closing position into an open position and vice versa by an actuating device (12). The actuating device (12) can be displaced from a top end position... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6186489 | Method and apparatus for constraining the open edge of a signature during transfer An apparatus and method designed to eliminate dog-earring of the comers of the open edges of a folded signature or book without the need for the use of electrostatic adherence. A guide mechanism is provided between a tape drive, a divert cylinder and/or a... | 02/13/2001 |
| 5946540 | Document feeder having a curved document transportation path A document feeder which has a document transportation path curved with a curvature radius such that a document original is reversed and fed therethrough to a document setting surface. The document feeder further includes a pair of rollers respectively dis... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5901950 | Document feeding devices for image reading apparatus A helical gear connected to a lower discharge roller is made movable in its axial direction toward a bracket when a stepping motor is activated. A friction pad formed from felt or sponge rubber, for example, is attached to a side surface of the helical ge... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5765459 | Method for moving point neeedles in a two stage extension path Point needles in a collecting cylinder are driven in a two stage extension process to initially needle or pierce the leading edge of a product web being cut. Once the cut has been made, the needle tips are moved further radially outwardly from the cylinde... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5711220 | Slidable stop on a product-guiding cylinder associated with a rotary printing press A gripper device for two-dimensional products on guiding cylinders for the products, the guiding cylinders having respective end faces at which the guiding cylinders are supported in respective side frames, the gripper device including grippers disposed o... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5326088 | Apparatus for feeding signatures to a rotary drum with angularly spaced grippers A rotary drum with angularly spaced grippers delivers magazine signatures to the collating conveyor of a saddle stitch binding machine. The signatures are supplied to the drum in the form of a running shingle with successive leading signatures being pulle... | 07/05/1994 |
| 4247093 | Method and apparatus for loading a circular sheet pile feeder A method of and apparatus for automatically loading a circular sheet pile feeder with successive splayed piles of sheets removed from a stack of sheets disposed on a pallet are disclosed. A pile of sheets of a given height is separated from the stack on t... | 01/27/1981 |
