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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8066284 | Gate system diverting sheets into multi-ways According to aspects illustrated herein, there are provided systems for conveying a sheet article into an intended pathway. The multi-way gate system for diverting sheets into multiple pathways in a sheet conveying device includes at least three pathways for directi... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8061712 | Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet conveying apparatus includes a first sheet conveying path, a second sheet conveying path branched from the first sheet conveying path, a switching member capable of moving in the branch portion of the first sheet conveying path and the second sheet conveying... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8056899 | Print-medium post-treatment apparatus Disclosed is a print-medium post-treatment apparatus, in which a converting guide to guide a print medium to any one of a first delivery path and a second delivery path is operated upon receiving rotational force from a delivery motor for delivery of the print mediu... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8052147 | Inserter system divert gate actuated by pre-fold accumulator drive shaft An inserter system includes a pre-fold accumulator subsystem in which plural sheets are collected before folding and insertion into an envelope. A divert gate is at the upstream side of the pre-fold accumulator to selectively downwardly divert sheets fed in a revers... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8047544 | Printing apparatus A printing apparatus includes a holding section connected to a downstream end of a main transfer path for consecutively transferring paper sheets and formed of a curved transfer path, which consecutively transfers the paper sheets led out from the main transfer path... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8011659 | Sheet transport direction switching device, and image forming apparatus incorporated with the same A sheet transport switching device include a rotary guide that is pivotal about an axis orthogonal to a sheet transport direction to align a guide passage with one of two discharge destinations. A stepping motor changes the posture of the rotary guide and a controll... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7988151 | Media diversion mechanism for a sheet media processing device, and a media processing device A check processing device conveys checks into branch paths without the check jamming. The downstream end of the check transportation path 7 of the check processing device 1 is split by a diversion unit 18 into first and second branch paths 11... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7946583 | Rotary diverter with funnel section System for directing media from one an input media path to one of multiple output paths using a rotary diverter. The rotary diverter is a cylinder mounted for rotation at a crossover point, where input media paths and output media paths cross. The rotary diverter in... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7896344 | Automatic self-clearing feature for paper jams in marking machines This is a system that enables a marking system to automatically clear itself of paper jams even when the marking system is unattended. The paper transport is enabled to move forward and backward, and when a jam occurs it will automatically move backward or in revers... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7887053 | Print interface system for a sheet handling device A print interface system including a printer integrated in combination with a sheet handling system such as a mailpiece inserter. The print interface system facilitates the handling of sheet material in various operating modes, including conventional printing, duple... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7887054 | Sheet transport direction switching device, and image forming apparatus incorporated with the same A sheet transport direction switching device includes: a rotary guide member having a single guide passage for passing a sheet to be transported, and a support shaft extending in a direction orthogonal to a transport direction of the sheet; and a posture changing me... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7871076 | Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet conveying apparatus having an excellent performance in jam recovery, and an image forming apparatus provided therewith is provided. The sheet conveying apparatus which may switch the conveying direction of a sheet has: a discharge switching member 60;... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7862041 | 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... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7857309 | Shaft driving apparatus This disclosure provides a shaft driving apparatus and method of operation. The shaft driving apparatus comprises a shaft and a slip joint configuration to extend the wear zone associated with bearings operatively connected to an apparatus which rotates a shaft less... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7845639 | Multi-function low profile print interface for a sheet handling device A print interface system includes a printer integrated in combination with a sheet handling system such as a mailpiece inserter. The print interface system facilitates the handling of sheet material in various operating modes, including conventional printing, duplex... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7762552 | Movable gate with fluid damper for directing media sheets within an image forming apparatus The present application is directed to devices and methods for directing media sheets moving along a media path within an image forming apparatus. In one embodiment, a gate is positioned in proximity to the media path. The gate may include an elongated shape that ex... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7726651 | Apparatus for ejecting sheets An apparatus for ejecting sheets from a sheet transport path onto an auxiliary stack disposed upstream of a main stack, includes a planar sheet guide surface having a sheet ejection opening formed therein. The sheet ejection opening is closed by a sheet separating e... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7708276 | Sheet conveying path switching device used in image forming apparatus, and sheet conveying device An easy-to-use, inexpensive, and small sheet conveying device, which can stably and separately convey not only sheets of a fixed size that are normally used, but also highly rigid sheets and special sheets, and can further separately convey a bent sheet reliably. In... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7699312 | Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus provided with the same A sheet conveying apparatus has a pair of conveying rotary members for conveying a sheet, an openable and closable conveying guide for guiding the sheet conveyed by the pair of conveying rotary members, a conveying path, which is disposed on a downstream side of the... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7694966 | Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet processing apparatus includes a first processing unit, a second processing unit, a roller, a guide member, and a conveying unit. The first processing unit applies first processing to a recording medium. The second processing unit applies second processing to... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7637502 | Sheet processing apparatus with branching paths for post-processing A sheet processing apparatus which perform a process to sheets comprising a stacking tray on which stacks the sheets to be performed a process; a discharge roller pair; a first path in which conveys a sheet to the discharge roller pair, shorter than the length of th... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7624982 | Apparatuses for processing sheet material An apparatus for processing sheet material includes a transport device for transporting single sheets of the sheet material. The transport device includes a diverting device for diverting the transport direction of the single sheets having one or more opposite first... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7594659 | Paper conveying/branching device A paper conveying/branching device comprising a main conveyer passage, a first branched conveyer passage, a second branched conveyer passage, a conveyer passage change-over guide member, a solenoid and a controller. When the displacing member of the solenoid is disp... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7467794 | Sheet conveyance problem release mechanism and sheet stacking apparatus A sheet conveyance release mechanism has a movable guide unit and a fixed guide unit adjacent to the movable guide unit. The mechanism has a horizontal conveyance guide unit for conveying a sheet in a substantially horizontal direction, and a vertical conveyance gui... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7441770 | Conveyor apparatus having a twice-twisted belt and a floating-tension pulley A conveyor apparatus including a main conveyor by which mail items are routed by being nipped between a transport belt and a main belt, and a secondary conveyor towards which the mail items are routed, after switching, along a secondary belt. The main and secondary ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7434797 | Recording media processing device and image forming device The present invention comprises a shunting roller 41, and when recording media P, which is output from an image forming device main body 11, is stacked as a stack of recording media and staple processing is performed thereon, the shunting roller 41 | 10/14/2008 |
| 7431294 | 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... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7431293 | Dual path roll for an image forming device A dual roll to move two separate media sheets simulatneously along a section of a media path. The dual roll includes a first path formed by a first nip, and a second path formed by a second nip. A drive roll forms a section of both nips. Methods of using the dual ro... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7360758 | Accumulator apparatus non-marring pusher system An accumulator apparatus for accumulating one or more sheets or articles is provided and includes a sheet accumulator portion for accumulating one or more sheets or articles, a ramp disposed upstream of the sheet accumulator portion relative to a flow direction of t... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7354036 | Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus including the sheet processing apparatus A sheet processing apparatus includes: a buffer unit which stores plural supplied sheets with upstream edges in a conveying direction thereof aligned; a processing tray on which sheets discharged from the buffer unit are stacked; and an oscillation roller pair and a... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7354034 | Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus equipped with same A sheet processing apparatus is provided with a processing tray on which sheets are to be stacked and subjected to a processing, a stack tray provided in the downstream of the processing tray with respect to the sheet conveying direction on which sheets are to be st... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7334687 | Gate assembly for diverting articles and the like A gate assembly for diverting substantially flat articles is provided. The gate assembly comprises a mounting bracket having an upright support member and a mounting member secured to the upright support member and a diverter vane having a slot for slidably receivin... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333767 | Paper post-processing apparatus and image recording apparatus An apparatus and method for punching a hole in a paper with a punching unit in a paper post-processing apparatus. The paper is nipped and transported with a transporting roller system arranged downstream of the punching unit in a paper transport direction to make at... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7331572 | Sheet finisher and image forming system using the same A sheet finisher for executing preselected processing with a sheet conveyed thereto of the present invention includes a first processing tray configured to temporarily store the sheet and deliver it. A first and a second path are positioned downstream of the first p... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7318585 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus to reverse a sheet, includes a branched conveyance path branched from a connection point between an entry and conveyance path and a reversal and conveyance path provided downstream of the entry and conveyance path. When a sheet conveyor fe... | 01/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7311303 | Apparatus and method for distributing print media Various embodiments of an apparatus and method for distributing print media are provided. In one embodiment, the apparatus for distributing print media includes an accumulator that is pivotable about an axis. The accumulator has a print media inlet, a print media ou... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7292820 | Integrated media input tray including electronics A removable media tray for an image forming apparatus includes a housing, an exit port in the housing, a primary media stack, and a multi-purpose tray (MPT) input. Within the tray are first and second pick mechanisms operative to select a media sheet from the primar... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7277670 | Double-sided image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus has an image forming unit that forms an image on one side of a recording medium, and a return unit that returns the recording medium to the image forming unit so that an image can be formed on the other side. A control unit selects differe... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7255340 | Sheet stack ejecting apparatus, image forming apparatus, and sheet stack processing apparatus It is intended to provide a sheet stack ejecting apparatus, an image forming apparatus and a sheet stack processing apparatus applicable to ejection of a sheet stack while ejection errors are prevented by reducing disorderliness of ejected sheets of paper. A sheet e... | 08/14/2007 |
