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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7416009 | Wall mounted printer with binding assembly A wall mounted printer comprising a main chassis, a pivoting media tray disposed on a front upper portion of the main chassis, a removable collection tray disposed at the base of the main chassis for receiving printed and bound media exiting from the main chassis, a... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7380580 | Printing arrangement with an adhesive application station A printing arrangement includes a driving station configured to drive print media along a path. An adhesive application station is arranged to be in alignment with the path so as to apply adhesive to the print media. A printing station is arranged to be in alignment... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7082980 | Adhesive applicator in a page printing and binding process A binding process includes the application of respective parts of a two-part binding adhesive as strips at either side of a page to be bound. Part A of a two-part adhesive is applied to one side of a page and Part B of the two-part adhesive is applied to the reverse... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7052126 | Inkjet recording apparatus An inkjet recording apparatus for providing a high-quality image wherein a recording medium is thoroughly sucked by a conveyance belt and is accurately conveyed, thereby saving much time and effort. A conveyance belt 7 for supporting and conveying a recording... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6971806 | Apparatus, method, and computer program product for pad transfer The present invention includes apparatus and method for image transfer onto one of a plurality of a pad medium pages while the pages are aggregated together. A preferred embodiment for a printer includes a housing; a print engine, within the housing, for transferrin... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6827116 | Binding assembly for a printer A binding assembly for a printer includes a support chassis that is mountable to a printer, downstream of a printing zone of the printer. The support chassis defines a glue application and binding zone in which printed sheets of media are received in a feed directio... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6622623 | Method for conveying sheets in a printing machine and a device for carrying out the method In a method for conveying sheets in a sheet-printing machine, the sheets are held securely in position on a circumferential surface of sheet-guiding cylinders with the aid of an adhesive, which can be detached again a number of times and does not transfer... | 09/23/2003 |
| 5983970 | Apparatus for applying labels to objects having a helically grooved gluine roller An apparatus for applying labels to bottles or the like comprises at least one moveable gluing palette 7 which coacts with a rotary gluing roller 1 so as to be coated with glue, and which thereafter transfers the glue to a label 17 which is transported by... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5931635 | Device for removing flat articles from a stack The device for removing flat articles from a stack comprises at least one roller which contacts the uppermost article of a stack and is rotatable about a shaft and whose circumferential surface is covered by a layer consisting of a resilient material. The... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5607539 | Labelling apparatus A labelling apparatus is provided wherein labels (21) are transported from a label magazine (9) to a labelling station by means of a conveyor belt (1). Adhesive is applied to the conveyor belt (1) by means of a pasting station (5) at the portions which ar... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5540809 | Apparatus for removing protective films In an apparatus for removing protective films, a groove is formed in a roller having an adhesive surface sufficient to peel off a protective film from a printed wiring board. The exposed printed wiring board, on which a dry film provided with a protective... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5399228 | Apparatus and method for automatically applying adhesive-backed labels to moving articles Pressure-sensitive adhesive-backed labels are carried adhesive back side down on a backing strip. The present method and apparatus completely removes each label from its backing material and then may relocate, manipulate, or hold the label by its adhesive... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5332439 | Screen printing apparatus for filling through-holes in circuit board with paste Disclosed is a screen printing apparatus for filling minute through-holes in a board with conductive paste or the like by screen printing. When screen printing is performed with this screen printing apparatus, the board is placed on a stage through the in... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5251547 | Rotating-belt printing machine for textile products and the like Printing machine with rotating belt for textile products and the like, including a supporting structure which extends vertically, a plurality of motorized and mutually synchronized traction rollers arranged in superimposed pairs, and a belt which is close... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5239926 | Card printer apparatus and method A printer apparatus including a print head assembly and a transport belt for transporting a workpiece such as a plastic card through the printer apparatus. The transport belt includes a surface self-adhering to a surface of the plastic card. In a preferre... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5209808 | Corner label applicator system and method An applicator system and method for automatically applying and securing an adhesive backed (or gummed) label onto a corner surface of a typically three-dimensional, right-angle polygonal object such that the body of the label is applied and adhered to one... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5131545 | Method and apparatus for extracting the contents of envelopes A method and apparatus for extracting the contents of envelopes, each of which has been opened along at least one edge and has an opposite edge which is unopened. The envelopes are successively projected with their unopened edges leading, against an adhes... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5062918 | Glue segments which can be attachable to a drive shaft of a labelling machine A labelling machine is for bottles, or the like, and includes a rotatable drive shaft. The drive shaft has an axis of rotation and includes at least one radially extending surface which is disposed at a predetermined location axially on the drive shaft. T... | 11/05/1991 |
| 5060924 | Device for picking up one piece of cloth from a stack of cloth pieces This invention relates to a device for picking up one piece of cloth (1) from a stack (2) of cloth pieces. In order that a piece of cloth could be picked up reliably irrespective of the kind of the cloth to be picked up, the device comprises a sticker mem... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5060009 | Method and apparatus for the automated image formation on any photographic media According to the method of the invention, photographic media are transported from one treatment station to another by means of a conveyor belt (1) on which they are held by temporary adhesion by using adhesive means, said media (10) being then removed fro... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5017261 | Labelling machine for objects such as bottles or the like A labelling machine for bottles or the like includes several stations located behind one another along a track. The stations include an adhesive application station, a label feed station and a label transfer station. There are three extracting elements wh... | 05/21/1991 |
| 5007626 | Apparatus for picking up a flat work piece from an adhering substrate Flat work pieces can be rationally and carefully removed from a substrate to which they adhere with an apparatus which comprises a pickup table, a receiving table spaced from the pickup table, and a vertically adjustable tool carrier movable between the t... | 04/16/1991 |
| 5004518 | Labelling machine for objects such as bottles or the like This invention relates to a labelling machine for objects, in particular bottles, with several stations located one behind another along a track, namely an adhesive application station, a label feed station and a label transfer station. At least one extra... | 04/02/1991 |
| 4968018 | Device for separating, delivering and depositing blanks The invention relates to a device for separating, delivering, and depositing material blanks, for use in the textile industry or the like which improves heat transfer to the gripping surface in a device in which the heating device is arranged in such a wa... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4946066 | Paper dispensing device A paper dispensing device having a one-piece unitary main body with an upper and lower portion having a depression in the upper portion for receiving the operator's finger therein. The body is resilient and, upon downward pressure of the upper portion, th... | 08/07/1990 |
| 4887858 | Device with adhesive for the holding of thin textile articles In order to individually pick up and temporarily hold hosiery permeable articles, especially tubular articles like panty-hoses and stockings, and instantaneously stretch apart their elastic edges their automatic transfer, a holding device with adhesive an... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4853063 | System for applying outserts to containers A system for applying folded outserts to conveyed products utilizing a pressure sensitive tape for transportation from the magazine type hopper to the products. The tape with a pressure sensitive adhesive is routed in front of the outfeed of the outsert h... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4848762 | Sheet feeder with articulated feed pads A sheet feed mechanism for feeding single sheets from a stack of sheets in a feed tray is adapted to feed such sheets, even though the sheets may be bowed, curved, or wavy in a direction transverse to the process or feed direction. The mechanism includes ... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4776575 | Electrophotographic copying apparatus incorporating an automatic adhesive sheet feeding method and apparatus A sheet feeder is disclosed having a cartridge mounted adjacent the stack of paper providing an exposed line of adhesive strip. The adhesive should be a temporary adhesive which when removed leaves no residue or damage on the sheet to which it was tempora... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4722564 | Apparatus for clamping workpieces An apparatus for clamping workpieces made from varied materials and complicated shapes comprises a body and clamping member, which are formed by adhesive films which can be used a number of times. These adhesive films can be moved from a position above th... | 02/02/1988 |
| 4696715 | Pick-and-place glue applicator A pick-and-place glue applicator is disclosed having a drive shaft mounted on a frame member for rotation about a primary axis of rotation. A support shaft is mounted on the frame member for rotation about a secondary axis of rotation which is parallel to... | 09/29/1987 |
| 4591139 | Device for picking up planar work pieces An apparatus for picking up, transporting and exactly depositing planar work pieces, particularly cloth parts, comprises lifting devices which can be moved over work piece deposition points. The lifting devices comprise a pressure plate having a plurality... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4589949 | Label grasping and transferring device in a labelling machine for bottles and the like A device for grasping and transferring the labels from the store to the applicator drum of a labelling machine with stationary store, for bottles and the like, which comprises a single transfer member, having at least two curved plates rigidly connected t... | 05/20/1986 |
| 4579329 | Single ply pickup apparatus and method A method and apparatus for isolating, separating, and removing a single ply of material from a stack of plies including pickup fingers for lifting a peripheral edge of the topmost ply in the stack with adhesive tape, a spin off assembly for removing cling... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4577851 | Device for singling out stacked sheets Device for individually separating sheets from a stack thereof by means of a band-shaped adhesive carrier extending from a supply roller over guide rollers to a wind-up roller, action of the adhesive carrier being adaptable to characteristics of the sheet... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4508330 | Pick-up and transfer mechanism for labels or the like A pick-up and transfer mechanism for labels or the like, preferably for transferring labels in a labeling machine from a label magazine to a greater cylinder. The mechanism has at least one pick-up element on a carrying element rotating around a vertical ... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4478668 | Labeling machine A labeling machine has a rotor on which several oscillatingly driven pallet shafts are supported. Each shaft has a carriage shiftable transversely to the shaft axis. Glue pallets having partly cylindrical surfaces for being coated with glue are mounted to... | 10/23/1984 |
| 4461468 | Automatic apparatus for lifting and separating sheet items from the surface of an electrophotographic drum A rotary, self contained, unitary, modular detack mechanism for cantilever pivotal mounting wherein an epicyclic gear assembly operably connected to a continuously rotating source of motion is caused to advance a portion of adhesive material from a supply... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4457801 | Labeling station for articles like bottles An improvement in a labeling station for bottles having pivoting extractors 2, 3, 4 with convex pickup surfaces, means for applying adhesive to the extractors and means for rolling the extractors over a stack of labels so as to pick up the front-most labe... | 07/03/1984 |
| 4445961 | Labeling apparatus for bottles or the like A bottle labeling machine has a turret rotating on a fixed axle. The turret has circumferentially spaced apart curved glue pallets mounted on individual pallet shafts supported in oscillatable drive members, respectively, which drive the shafts. The palle... | 05/01/1984 |
