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Wearable Device For Feeding and Observing Birds and Other Flying Animals
A device for feeding and observing flying animals comprising a hat, a support mounted on the hat and extending outward from the hat, and a feeder mounted on the support.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8353512 | Sheet feeder A switch back path is connected to a sheet feed path through a branch portion. A plurality of pairs of forward and backward rotating rollers are disposed along the switch back path from the branch portion. A driving portion selectively supplies rotation of a forward... | 01/15/2013 |
| 8328195 | Exit path assembly for an imaging device An exit path assembly for an imaging device according to one embodiment includes a first exit nip formed by a first roller and a second roller and a second exit nip formed by the second roller and a third roller. The rotational direction of the second roller is oppo... | 12/11/2012 |
| 8267402 | Medium reversing apparatus, image forming apparatus and image reading apparatus A medium reversing apparatus, an image forming apparatus and an image reading apparatus that respectively have the medium reversing apparatus are supplied capable of avoiding medium damage and medium load abnormality. In the medium reversing apparatus that conveys a... | 09/18/2012 |
| 8152169 | Feeding device and image recording apparatus with the feeding device A feeding device includes a conveying roller that conveys a sheet downstream when the conveying roller rotates forward. A first guide member guides the conveyed sheet toward the conveying roller. A second guide member guides the sheet when the conveying roller rotat... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8146919 | Image reading apparatus and document supply device thereof An image reading apparatus, a document supply device thereof and methods thereof may reduce a scanning operation time. A document supply device may include a holding position (e.g., internal) for a following document such that a scanning time between documents may b... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8070159 | Switchback mechanism and image forming apparatus In a color printer in which a drive force of a fixed gear that rotates not in both a forward direction and a reverse direction but in either one direction only is transmitted to a discharging unit, a swing gear is attached to a branch guide via a switching link and ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 7984909 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a first guide portion disposed to be movable for opening a transportation path of a medium; a second guide portion disposed to be movable for opening the transportation path and arranged adjacent to the first guide portion; a firs... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7967290 | Image forming apparatus and operation method of image forming apparatus In an image transferring apparatus of the invention, a relay unit, which is provided in a main body frame and includes a conveyance switching mechanism to eject a sheet on which an image is fixed by a fixing section to a sheet ejection section or to switch back the ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7896343 | Document or sheet material feeder Feeding systems for documents or other sheet materials include: (a) an inlet; (b) an outlet; (c) a feed path extending between the inlet and outlet; and (d) a feed system that moves materials along the feed path. The systems further may include: (e) a bidirectional ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7789388 | Image forming apparatus and sheet conveying apparatus A sheet conveying apparatus according to the invention includes a first conveying path; a sheet reverse conveying portion; a second conveying path; a third conveying path; and a movable guide portion configured to guide the conveyed sheet. The guide portion is moved... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7740242 | Document feeder A document feeder includes a conveying path extended from a document supplying position to a reading position, a first conveying roller pair provided upstream from the reading position and nipping and conveying the document, a second conveying roller pair provided d... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7578504 | Duplex automatic document feeder An automatic document feeder includes first, second, third, and fourth paths for guiding movement of a document. The document is fed through the first path and a scanning module so as to allow for scanning of a first side surface of the document. Thereafter, a switc... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7566055 | Substrate inverter systems and methods A sheet inverter includes a sheet path, such as a curved sheet path. A sheet driver is positioned to receive a sheet along the sheet path. The sheet driver is adapted to draw in the sheet and reverse a direction of the sheet. An exit path is positioned to receive th... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7410163 | Sheet conveying apparatus and image reading apparatus A sheet conveying apparatus includes: a first path through which a sheet passes; a switchback member that switches back the sheet passing through the first path and conveys the sheet; a second path through which the sheet switched back and conveyed by the switchback... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7398048 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus including: a first driven roller that forms a first nip portion with a driving roller; a second driven roller that forms a second nip portion with the driving roller at a downstream side of the first nip portion; a first transfer passage i... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7333748 | Detachably attached recording medium supplying apparatus with laterally attached conveying part and image forming apparatus A recording medium supplying apparatus includes a recording medium holding part that holds recording media, and a recording medium conveying part that conveys a recording medium from the recording medium holding part. Herein, the recording medium holding part is dis... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7316393 | Conveying device for a bank note processing device The invention relates to a transport apparatus for a bank note processing machine wherein bank notes are supplied via a guiding element to a transport diverter in order to be diverted to a stacking pocket or stacking wheel. According to the invention an end area of ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7216866 | Sheet transport path switching mechanism A sheet transport path switching mechanism includes a movable guide to be moved rotatably about a support shaft parallel to the width direction of a transport path so as to selectively take either a main posture where the movable guide directs a sheet to the downstr... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7185887 | Apparatus for switching paper feed direction of image forming device An apparatus to switch a paper feed direction for an image forming device includes a paper guide part disposed across a paper feed path to move from an initial position to a paper passing position or a paper jam removing position by a force generated by passing of t... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7168701 | Paper transporting apparatus A paper-transporting apparatus is used for transporting recording paper. A paper-transporting device is movable between a loading position where the paper-transporting unit has been completely attached into a chassis and an unloading position where the paper-transpo... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7114867 | Both-side recording apparatus In a recording apparatus including an inversion unit for inverting a recording sheet recorded on a side in a recording unit by conveying along a predetermined path and returning the recording sheet to the recording unit, the possibility of peeling of recording mater... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7055820 | Sheet discharge device and sheet processing device using the same The present invention can easily change an accommodatable number of discharge sheet. Further, the present invention provides a sheet processing device that can easily change the accommodatable number of discharge sheet while aiming to miniaturize the device itself. ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7010242 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes: a first image forming unit having a first printing section for forming a first image on the paper; a second image forming unit having a second printing section for forming a second image on the paper; and a paper conveying unit f... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6966714 | Duplex check printer having a separately driven document inverting loop A duplex check printer includes an upper document path, a print head at one side of the upper document path, and a lower document path having a loop to invert a check so that information can be printed on both sides of the check. The check is driven within the upper... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6926272 | Sensor and diverter mechanism for an image forming apparatus An arm that directs media sheets along multiple paper paths of an image forming device. The arm is mounted to pivot when contacted by the media sheet to direct the sheets along the proper media paths, and divert the sheets from entering the improper media paths. A s... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6918585 | Paper conveyance guiding apparatus for duplex printer A paper conveyance guiding apparatus of a duplex printer has an entrance passage disposed at one side of a printing unit to form a predetermined image on a paper and guide the paper to enter into the printing unit, a discharge and reverse passage formed to connect a... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6814353 | Automatic document feeder and image forming device An automatic document feeder comprising a reversing device and a discharge device is disclosed. The reversing device and the discharge device are disposed such that the distance in the horizontal direction from an original document reading position in the automatic ... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6804473 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus has an abnormality detecting device for detecting the abnormality of the sheet, an abnormal sheet containing portion for containing therein the sheet of which the abnormality has been detected, a normal sheet containing portion for tempora... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6789682 | Paper processing apparatus including payment unit equipped for selective use with alternative detachably connected reception units A paper processing apparatus feeds papers one by one from the first cassette for storing papers to be delivered to the outside, conveys the fed papers on the first conveyance path to store them in a predetermined temporary storing section, and then delivers the stor... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6767013 | Turning device for individual sheets A turning device for individual sheets has at least one transport unit transporting individual sheets. At least one turning unit turns the individual sheets by 180° to turned sheets while they are being transported to a processing station arranged downstream. At le... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6722648 | Mechanism for forwardly and reversely feeding recording medium A drive mechanism for rotating a drive roller includes an input transmission mechanism for transmitting a drive force from a motor, an output transmission mechanism for transmitting the drive force to the drive roller, an intermediate transmission mechanism for sele... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6705221 | Device for turning or reversing flat copies in half-revolution sheet-processing machines In a sheet-processing rotary printing machine operatable in recto printing and recto/verso printing modes, there is provided a device for reversing sheets, which includes a transfer drum bounded by two sheet-guiding cylinders, a reversing/storage drum and an additio... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6682237 | Apparatus and method for transporting print media through a printzone of a printing device An apparatus and method are disclosed herein for enabling dual-loading of print media through a printzone of a printing device. Further characteristics and features of the present invention are additionally disclosed herein, as are exemplary alternative e... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6648320 | Document feeder and image reading apparatus A document feeder apparatus is provided with the first switchback path using a space between a supply tray and a discharge tray arranged to overlap with each other, and the second switchback path between the discharge tray and a pressing cover of a platen... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6631903 | Paper discharge apparatus and printer A paper discharge apparatus includes: a paper guide (6) for guiding paper (5) provided from a paper conveyance mechanism (1); a paper guide (7) disposed on a downstream side of the paper guide (6) for deflecting the paper (5) downward; a pair of rollers (... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6618577 | Sheet guiding device with electromagnetic shield plate serving as one guide surface and image forming apparatus including the same A sheet guiding device has an electromagnetic shield plate disposed between a re-transportation path for a sheet material and a video controller board, with the bottom surface of the electromagnetic shield plate being used as a sheet guiding surface and a... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6554276 | Flexible sheet reversion using an omni-directional transport system A flexible sheet handling apparatus comprising an input section for receiving the flexible sheet, a reversion section for rotating the flexible sheet about an axis of motion and an output section for transferring the rotated flexible sheet to a sheet proc... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6402133 | Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus having the same A sheet conveying apparatus includes a sheet constant speed conveying device for conveying a sheet at a predetermined speed, a sheet conveying path for guiding the sheet being conveyed by the sheet constant speed conveying device, a sheet reverse feeding ... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6363231 | Printing system and printing method for producing a chromatically mixed sheet sequence A printer or copier includes a high speed monochrome or two color printer portion and a slower full color printer portion. Print job signals are divided into monochrome and color printed pages and sent to the corresponding printer portion. The printers, o... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6341777 | Multiple-position idler roller An inverter for reversing the orientation of a moving sheet includes a drive roller and an idler roller in circumferential contact in at least two positions, with a nip defined in each position.... | 01/29/2002 |
