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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8205871 | Separator device using balls for separating flat articles A separator device for separating flat articles one-by-one from a stack of flat articles and for conveying them downstream, said separator device comprising at least one flexible bag provided with a plurality of balls and co-operating with a drive member so that, by... | 06/26/2012 |
| 8079584 | Document processing assembly An improved document feeder flag assembly is disclosed. The improved document feeder flag assembly allows single handed, on the fly loading of a document sorter. A method for loading a document sorting machine with a single hand, while the method of operating the ma... | 12/20/2011 |
| 7934719 | Document feeder flag assembly An improved document feeder flag assembly is disclosed. The improved document feeder flag assembly allows single handed, on the fly loading of a document sorter. A method for loading a document sorting machine with a single hand, while the method of operating the ma... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7850163 | Sheet feeder with laterally adjustable sheet separators set below feed belt A sheet feeder having a stack hopper for holding a stack of sheets, and feed belts for advancing the bottom-most sheet from the stack, is constructed to move at least one of the feed belts laterally toward and away from another of the feed belts while the belts are ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7806398 | Ingestion guide assembly for augmenting sheet material separation in a singulating apparatus An ingestion assembly is provided for a singulating apparatus having a conveyor system for moving a stack of sheet material along a feed path. The ingestion assembly is spatially positioned above the conveyor belt and includes at least one singulating roller driven ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7748696 | Sheet feeder with feed belts and traction belt A sheet feeder (1) having a stack hopper (9) for holding a stack of sheets (8), and feed belts (5, 6, 7) for advancing the bottom-most sheet from the stack, has traction belts (110, 111, 112) between the feed belts. The traction be... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7726643 | Paper feeder having hard nip and flexible nip A friction feeder apparatus for handling sheets of paper of differing thicknesses includes a first plurality of laterally spaced apart transport belts positioned in underlying relation to the paper and a second plurality of laterally spaced apart separator wheels po... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7722028 | Feeder separation technology A bottom friction feeder comprises a material magazine assembly, a gate assembly including a guide subassembly and a singulation gate subassembly, a back wedge assembly, and a bottom friction belt assembly. ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7686290 | Double inhibit mechanism Described herein is a system and device for singulating mail pieces during mail processing and sorting. A double inhibit mechanism, mounted opposite a feed belt assembly and having at least two degrees of freedom at its downstream end, can maintain contact with mail... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7624978 | Sheet feeder with feed belts that move toward an away from each other A sheet feeder having a stack hopper for holding a stack of sheets, and feed belts for advancing the bottom-most sheet from the stack, is constructed to move at least one of the feed belts laterally toward and away from another of the feed belts while the belts are ... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7357389 | Transport device comprising a branch for transporting sheets The invention is concerned with a transport device for sheets, with which branching of the transport path can be implemented in a manner which is simple and not susceptible to faults. This object is achieved by a transport device which comprises a first belt transpo... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7331576 | Feeder device having increased media capacity and multiple media thickness feed capability and associated method A feeder device is provided, comprising a drive mechanism for driving a media unit in a feed direction, the media unit being provided from a stack of media units by a hopper including upstream and downstream hopper members. A directing member associated with the ups... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7322481 | Automated banking machine which dispenses, receives and stores notes and other financial instrument sheets An ATM (10) includes a housing (46) including a generally L-shaped chest portion (48) and an upper housing portion (54). The ATM includes a fascia (12) which extends on the outside of a wall (14) and includes a user interfac... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7303523 | Paper-folding apparatus A paper-folding apparatus includes a hopper for holding one or more sheets of paper or other similar foldable media, a discharge feed and stripper assembly, a shuttle associated with the hopper operable to transfer a sheet of paper from the hopper to the discharge f... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7303117 | Banknote-processing device A banknote processing device where banknotes are stopped at a predetermined position of a stacker guide without being deformed. Braking means (4) is provided at a portion of a stacker guide (3), and the braking means (4) has a rolling body (7... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7303188 | Document separator A document separator for use in a document processing machine. The document separator has a flexible loop of material adjacent to a document transport mechanism so that it holds one or more documents back from being transported along a transport path while allowing ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7255338 | Method and apparatus for processing sheet material The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for processing sheet material, in particular papers of value such as bank notes, checks, etc., wherein different groups of sheet material are processed one after the other, the different groups of sheet materia... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7237485 | Print supply monitoring An identification card printer includes a card input, a card transport, a printhead, and a card output. The card transport is configured to feed a card from the card input along a print path. The printhead is positioned below the print path and is configured to prin... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7182330 | Intelligent autonomous sheet feeder for the infeed of a printer Disclosed herein is a sheet feeder for a printer. The sheet feeding device feeds a single sheet into an infeeder of a printer without communicating with the printer. The sheet feeder is equipped with a sensor for detecting when the printer is able to accept a sheet.... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7178800 | Device for establishing an imbricated stream of flat articles A device comprising a dancing roller (1) and a stopping means (2) is used for establishing an imbricated stream of flat articles (4), in particular of printed products such as newspapers, magazines or brochures, from a supplied imbricated stream... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7168696 | Apparatus and method for separating flat parceled goods In order to provide an apparatus for separating flat parceled goods, comprising a driver device with at least one driver surface, which is driven such that the parceled goods can be carried along in a transporting direction by the at least one driver surface, and al... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7156605 | Substrate transport and marking assembly An apparatus for transporting and marking a substrate, such as a collapsed corrugated cardboard carton. A feeder station is configured to receive a substantially vertically aligned stack of substrates. An advancement assembly of the feeder station successively moves... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7154519 | Printer and ribbon cartridge A printer includes a substrate input, a substrate transport, a printhead, a removable ribbon cartridge, a ribbon cartridge receiver, and a substrate output. The substrate transport is configured to feed a substrate from the substrate input along a print path. The pr... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7055816 | Method of processing sheet-like products, and apparatus for implementing the method A method and apparatus for processing a stream of sheet-like products, such as printed magazines and newspapers, whereby the orientation of the products in the stream is changed to facilitate subsequent processing. The products are conveyed in an imbricated stream, ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7018117 | Identification card printer ribbon cartridge A ribbon cartridge includes a cartridge housing, a supply spool, a take-up spool, and a supply of ribbon. The cartridge housing includes a supply spool enclosure, a take-up spool enclosure, a pair of ribbon guides, and a gap between the ribbon guides and the supply ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7014730 | Selective card diverting Cards may be singly fed along a primary lane so that a batch of cards is fed along the primary lane. One or more cards may be selectively diverted from the primary lane to a secondary lane such that only some of the batch of cards are diverted. The cards from the ba... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7003157 | Sheet handling system A sheet handling method and a sheet handling system in which various types of sheets can be easily determined in a short period of time, which contributes to increasing efficiency in subsequent application processing in a financial institution or the like. The syste... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6978993 | Method and device for rotating a frictional surface in a friction feeder A method and device for facilitating the replacement of a worn out section of a friction roller in a friction feeder with another section. The roller is fixedly mounted on a shaft adjacent to the feeder nip. In operation, the shaft is restricted from turning by a lo... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6978192 | Single pass sequencer and method of use A single pass sequencer and method of use for transporting the mail pieces in a single pass through a set of feeders. The system includes a transport system which transports articles to an transport system. At least one staging area stages the articles to be injecte... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6971808 | Card printing devices Card printing apparatus, for example, for printing identification cards, pass cards and the like generally comes with a relatively restricted size card input hopper. The number of cards that can be processed in a single operation is accordingly limited. The capacity... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6971645 | Device for selecting mail items The present invention relates to a selection device for separating one by one, or singulating, the items of a stack of mail items, comprising a support surface, conveying means for driving these mail items over the support surface, a mobile presser plate cooperating... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6965748 | Drive roller for belt in an electrophotographic image forming apparatus An electrophotographic image forming apparatus comprises a drive roller having a textured finish with a plurality of microscopic protrusions and a plurality of microscopic depressions; the drive roller comprising a shaft and a surface coating on the shaft; a flexibl... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6961482 | System for archiving electronic images of test question responses A system and method for electronically archiving electronic images of responses received from a response provider in such a manner that reduces the amount of electronic resources required for said archival. ... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6945524 | Card singularization gate A card singularization gate for use in an identification card printer includes a roller support, a guide roller, and a card stop. The roller support is positioned between a card feeder and the card transport mechanism. The guide roller is supported by the roller sup... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6942210 | Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet feeding apparatus according to the present invention includes: a feed rotary member rotationally driven in a sheet feeding direction; a retard rotary member in contact with the feed rotary member under a predetermined pressure and rotationally driven in a di... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6942214 | Mail registration and feeding apparatus This invention concerns a feeding and advancing apparatus in a document processing machine for aligning and registering flat articles against a registration wall. The articles are advanced through a first feeding apparatus that pushes them towards a registration wal... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6932527 | Card cartridge A card cartridge includes a housing having a pair of opposing side walls, a top, a front wall, a back wall opposite the front wall, and a base. The housing includes an interior cavity that is sized to accommodate a stack of cards, a card access, and a card output sl... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6932338 | Friction sheet feeding machine with reversible driven retard roller A friction sheet feeding machine having (i) a tray for holding a stack of sheets, (ii) a driven friction feed roller for contacting a downward facing major surface of a lowermost sheet in a stack retained within the tray and pulling the lowermost sheet in a machine ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6929259 | Compact bank note dispensing device to prevent duplication releases A duplicate let off prevention device for sheets includes a first exit guide, a second exit guide which is spaced from the first exit guide at a distance that is larger than the thickness of one sheet and is smaller than the thickness of two sheets, and a pre-exit g... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6918584 | Intelligent autonomous sheet feeder for the infeed of a printer Disclosed herein is a sheet feeder for a printer. The sheet feeding device feeds a single sheet into an infeeder of a printer without communicating with the printer. The sheet feeder is equipped with a sensor for detecting when the printer is able to accept a sheet.... | 07/19/2005 |
