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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7744086 | Method and apparatus for transporting flat products During the transport of flat products, in particular folded products which are transferred at the end of a transport path to an assembly which forwards them, a great degree of freedom from faults can be attained by the fact that, in the case of lower transport speed... | 06/29/2010 |
| 6010128 | Device for guiding a paper sheet on a belt Device for guiding a paper sheet on a belt that includes first air guidance surfaces located on a paper sheet guiding side of the belt. The first air guidance surfaces may be positioned to create a dynamic pressure between the first air guidance surfaces ... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5837366 | Stripping fingers for copying machines and printers A stripping finger for a copier having a tip acutely arcuated with extremely high precision and less likely to be deformed when heated or collided repeatedly with a roller, and capable of stably maintaining high paper stripping ability, as well as high lu... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5518781 | Stripping fingers for copying machine Stripping fingers for use in a copying machine, molded of a liquid crystal polyester resin composition made up of a liquid crystal polyester having a flow temperature of 340° C. or higher and titanium oxide whiskers. The stripping fingers have excellent ... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5427368 | Sheet-like article sort-out apparatus A belt conveyor is provided to feed veneers in the arrow-marked direction in the drawing. A porous transfer belt having numerous of air holes therein is stretched around so as to run above said belt conveyor. Inside the porous transfer belt, a suction hoo... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5405482 | Labeling machine A labeling machine in which pressure sensitive adhesively backed labels are releasably adhered to a backing strip moving along a path from a dispensing roll to a take-up roll. The labels are removed from the backing strip onto a rotating applicator drum a... | 04/11/1995 |
| 5375834 | Stacking method and apparatus An apparatus for stacking cards, printed sheets or similar products has feeder stations situated in a row and a conveyor with pushers. The feeder stations include spaced inner and outer tables. Individual products are deposited on the tables at the feeder... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5305067 | Photosensitive drum surface cleaning device for electrocopying machine A device for cleaning a surface of a photosensitive drum used in electrocopying machines utilizing a xerography, laser printers, and facsimiles using normal sheets. The cleaning device includes a filter unit having a suction fan and a duct connected to th... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5221952 | Means for separating image recording medium in electrophotographic recording apparatus An electrophotographic recording apparatus including a light-sensitive drum for carrying toner images developed thereon, and a transfer unit arranged at a prescribed distance from the light-sensitive drum for transferring the toner images from a light-sen... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5139386 | Apparatus for the stacking of printing products arriving in an imbricated formation Printing products (13) are fed by a conveyor track (11, 14) to a stack compartment (17), which can be charged from above, in an imbricated formation of the kind in which the printing products (13) lie in pairs congruently one on top of the other. In order... | 08/18/1992 |
| 5046712 | Apparatus for handling workpieces of limp sheet material Apparatus for handling workpieces of limp sheet material including an endless conveyor having a forward-traveling upper reach for conveying workpieces in a forward direction, each workpiece having a leading edge and a trailing edge. An airfoil extends tra... | 09/10/1991 |
| 5031002 | Suction-type sheet carrying mechanism applied to an image forming apparatus A suction type sheet carrying mechanism for a high speed image forming apparatus, in which a sheet is separated from an electrophotosensitive drum by air suction performed by mechanically combining fixed air suction holes of a hollow shaft and rotated air... | 07/09/1991 |
| 5014978 | Method and apparatus for the sequential handling of flexible products The present invention provides an improved apparatus and method for the sequential handling of a series of flexible products which enables operation of the orbital packing fingers at lower speeds to reduce inertial loading and yet maintain a high output r... | 05/14/1991 |
| 4995406 | Apparatus and method for opening a reel of paper stripping A carriage (6) is moved so that the periphery of a roller (4) rests against the reel (3). The blade (14) of a knife (5) cuts the closing belt of the reel and a few of the outer turns of the strip. The roller is started up so that the scraps are drawn into... | 02/26/1991 |
| 4992835 | Electrophotographic image forming apparatus An electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes a suction transport unit which is provided in the upper housing portion and which sucks paper on a paper transport path and transports the paper along the paper transport path. The suction transport ... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4828248 | Apparatus for stacking copy sheets in inverted orientation An apparatus for collecting and stacking in an inverted orientation large copy sheet discharged from the exit port of a whiteprint, blueprint or similar copying machine. A receptacle trough is provided for arresting and captivating the leading edges of th... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4737816 | Image transfer device An image transfer device includes a member for carrying a transfer material thereon and an image bearing member having an image thereon, the transfer material carrying member being subjected to a transfer corona therethrough to transfer the image from the... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736942 | Apparatus for separating moving superposed fabric layers Apparatus for separating moving superposed fabric layers includes structure defining upper and lower spaced-apart, opposed surfaces between which the superposed fabric layers are conveyed. Provision is made for directing jets of gaseous fluid along the su... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4710257 | Device for the application of an adhesive to one or more localized areas of a sheet of flexible wrapping material The device comprises a glue roller which picks up adhesive from a tray or tank, a scraper that wipes the glue roller, leaving the adhesive at prescribed points only, and a contact roller which takes sheets of wrapping material through an area where adhesi... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4702471 | Article transport arrangement An article transport arrangement for conveying articles along a pair of generally parallel transport paths from a first location to a second location includes a pair of vacuum belt conveyors which extend between the first and second locations, generally a... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4526360 | Process and apparatus for feeding bands to a pack A method and apparatus for feeding sheet shaped blanks to an article. The blanks are extracted from a magazine by a blank conveyor at a first point, and, occasionally, more than one blank is erroneously extracted. To ensure that only one blank is conveyed... | 07/02/1985 |
| 4408863 | Transfer medium separating device In a copy paper separating device for use in a transfer type electrophotographic copying machine which includes a conductive carrier member, preferably in the form a conductive endless belt extended between a pair of pulleys. The conductive carrier member... | 10/11/1983 |
| 4389112 | Transfer sheet separating/conveying apparatus for use in electrophotographic copying machines A transfer sheet separating/conveying member is formed of an electrically conductive material, and has its part disposed close to or in contact with the peripheral surface of a photosensitive drum for movement in the same direction as the drum. The separa... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4373714 | Transfer device An electrostatic copying apparatus has a rotatable photosensitive drum including a first peripheral layer on which a visible image is formed and a second peripheral layer which is adjacent to the first peripheral layer along a shaft of the drum and on whi... | 02/15/1983 |
| 4285759 | Apparatus for stripping a cover sheet An apparatus for stripping an adherent cover sheet from a photosensitive film sandwich. A leader from a roll extends over a film having a cover sheet and is attached to an edge of the cover sheet. When the roll is driven, the leader wraps on it and strips... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4077519 | Curl detector and separator A device to predetermine the stripability of a sheet of copy paper being processed in a xerographic reproduction machine to prevent processing of those sheets that would be difficult to strip subsequent to transfer.... | 03/07/1978 |
| 4061330 | Sheet separator for use in electrophotographic copying machines A sheet separator separates a copy sheet held attracted to the surface of a rotating photosensitive member by the use of a suction member pivotably disposed at a sheet separating position. The suction member includes an air suction port in its surface whi... | 12/06/1977 |
| 4060235 | Self-lifting vacuum stripper In a copying apparatus in which copy sheets are stripped from a reusable imaging surface after the images have been transferred thereto, a vacuum stripping system is provided in which a pivotable, highly apertured, stripping head is normally closely space... | 11/29/1977 |
| 4058306 | Detack and stripping system In an electrostatographic copying system where a toner image on a photoreceptor is transferred to a copy sheet with transfer charges, which charges are removed from the copy sheet by passing the copy sheet under a detacking corona generator, the body of t... | 11/15/1977 |
| 4034977 | Detaching device for a sheet-shaped copy support A device for detaching a sheet-shaped copy support from a moving photoconductive layer by fluid pressure. The device includes a nozzle arrangement which directs pressurized fluid, such as compressed air, toward a sheet of copy paper or other copy support.... | 07/12/1977 |
| 4017067 | Transfer-fusing speed compensation In an electrostatographic copier wherein the fuser rolls are positioned closer than the dimensions of the copy sheet from the image transfer area, speed mismatch compensation between the fuser roll nip and the initial image support surface is provided by ... | 04/12/1977 |
| 4017065 | Transfer-fusing speed compensation In an electrostatographic copier wherein the fuser rolls are positioned closer than the dimensions of the copy sheet from the image transfer area, speed mismatch compensation between the fuser roll nip and the initial image support surface is provided by ... | 04/12/1977 |
| 3940126 | Sheet handling mechanism A reproduction machine has a photoconductive surface and a stripping device for separating the leading edge of a transfer sheet from the surface. Located adjacent to the stripping device is a guide which is maintained at a reference voltage such that an e... | 02/24/1976 |
