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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7434803 | Method and station for unblanked sheet delivery in a machine processing plate elements A delivery station and a method for unblanked sheet delivery uses a delivery pull-out frame provided with front jogging stops and transverse gripper bars. The ends of the bars are fixedly attached to two respective endless loops flexible drive elements for conveying... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7347416 | Apparatus for transporting a printing material sheet An apparatus for transporting a printing material sheet includes a holding crossmember for holding the printing material sheet and a traveling-wave motor for driving the holding crossmember. The traveling-wave motor has a first traveler and a second traveler for mou... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7341429 | Methods and apparatuses for cooling gas turbine engine rotor assemblies A method of manufacturing a gas turbine engine includes providing a turbine mid-frame, coupling a plurality of rotor blades to a rotor disk, the rotor disk is coupled axially aft from the turbine mid-frame such that a cavity is defined between the rotor disk and the... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7329221 | Assembly for and method of gripping sheets of material in an interfolder A folding machine includes a first folding roll with a series of the gripper assemblies and a series of tucker assemblies uniformly and alternately spaced to interact with a series of gripper and tucker assemblies of an adjacent second folding roll. The series of al... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7232123 | Apparatus for conveying sheets through a printing machine An apparatus for conveying sheets from a printing machine to a stack has highly rigid gripper bars that can be produced with relatively little expense, and the gripper assembly permits great flexibility in the use of the apparatus. The apparatus has at least one gri... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7017640 | Method and apparatus for manufacture of swatch-bearing sheets A method and apparatus are provided for high speed manufacture of swatch bearing sheets wherein each sheet is directed through various operating stations via a single set of sheet engaging members. Individual sheets are removed from a stack of sheets at a feeding st... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6920815 | Integrated circuit package separators An integrated circuit package separator for separating integrated circuit packages from a board includes a base, a support over the base, and a pair of pneumatic actuators including first and second lift members laterally spaced from the base and beneath respective ... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6871847 | Method of, and apparatus for, handling an exposure surface to be exposed, in particular, a printing plate A method of and an apparatus for handling an exposure surface to be exposed includes the steps of hanging the exposure surface in a transitional state during introduction into the exposure region of an exposure unit and/or during discharge from an exposure unit. The... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6705607 | Device for transporting printed products A device for transporting printed products has an endless circulating traction member having support frames. Receiving elements configured to pick up supplied printed products and to release the printed products are fastened on the endless circulating traction membe... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6672447 | Process and apparatus for combining sheet-like articles and jointly transporting them further A process and apparatus for conveying flexible sheet-like articles 26, wherein the articles are fed to a first curved section 14 by means of a delivery conveyor 10 which includes spaced apart transporting clamps 22 for retaining the articles in a hanging ... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6655681 | Sheet material conveying apparatus with individually-adjustable pockets A sheet material conveying apparatus includes a plurality of pockets, each pocket including a setting device for adjusting a height of the pocket when the pocket is stationary so as to define a set height. A sheet delivery section delivers sheet material ... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6631898 | Gripping arrangement for the stacker of a printing press A gripping arrangement for a stacker device or delivery tray of a printing press. At least one upper gripper arm and at least one lower gripper arm are provided, which have a first opened position and a second closed position. Sheets are located between t... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6588741 | Stacking device of a printing press The invention relates to a stacking device as well as to a method for depositing sheets on a stack. The task of the invention is to provide a stacking device that deposits sheets on a stacking unit quickly, cost effectively and reliably. The invention sol... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6575456 | Device for held conveyance of flat articles in a dense conveying stream For conveying flat articles (10) in dense conveying streams, grippers (3) conveyed one behind the other by conveying elements (1) are used, each gripper (3) holding one of the articles gripped in an edge zone. For increasing the possibilities for changing... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6533267 | Method and apparatus for the alignment of textile material sections A method of aligning a portion of textile fabric, whereby at least two movable gripping elements of a display device are brought alongside one another into contact with and fastened to a front edge of the portion of fabric and the gripping elements are mo... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6488278 | Apparatus for feeding sheet-like articles to a processing arrangement The apparatus has a conveying arrangement (10) with clamps (12) which are arranged one behind the other and are driven along the circulatory path (18) in the direction of circulation (U). In the receiving section (16), the mouth (14) of the clamps (12) is... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6487966 | Gripper for conveying sheets in silk-screen printing machines A gripping device for conveying sheets in silk-screen printing machines. The gripping device comprises a box-like gripping bar having an outwardly and upwardly slanted rear wall provided with a longitudinally extending stepped edge at the upper side for r... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6419223 | Device for handling sheet-like pieces With regard to an installation designed to handle sheet-like pieces by means of gripper arms (1) provided with gripper clutches (9, 10), a particularly simple and economical structure requiring less components can be obtained by a design according to whic... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6367796 | Sheet-like object feed unit in sheet-fed rotary printing press A sheet-like object feed unit in a sheet-fed rotary printing press includes a feedboard, paper feed belts, connecting plate, improper paper feeding detector, swing arm shaft pregripper, transfer cylinder, non-motion roller, gripper closing cam, and air cy... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6349935 | Device for feeding sheets to a sheet-processing machine A device for driving a pregripper having a swivellably mounted main lever and a swivellably mounted guide lever, and a gripper bar mutually coupling the main lever and the guide lever, includes a cyclical swivel drive for the main lever, and an eccentrica... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6264192 | Process and apparatus for conveying pressroom products A process and apparatus for conveying printed products of the type having a main surface and a side edge, wherein each product is retained in the region of its side edge by an individual gripper, and wherein each gripper and its retained product are conve... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6257819 | System for handling and in particular for hooking and picking up flexible printed circuits to be introduced into a kiln or the like A device for hooking, picking up and unloading flexible printed circuits to be introduced into a kiln, comprising one or more jaws to grip the circuit and to rotate freely around a horizontal axis--to supports which slide along vertical guides; handling s... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6253899 | Sheet handling apparatus A sheet handling apparatus, such as a banknote stacker, comprises a carriage (23) that collects sheets by gripping their leading edges with jaws (35, 36) and transports them to a stack (6). The carriage (23) has a pair of driven wheels (32, 34) that push ... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6213459 | Signature gripper and delivery device A signature gripper having a gripper pad for firmly gripping a signature; a gripper base connected to the gripper pad, the gripper pad being rotatable about the gripper base in a direction of rotation; and a spring acting in the direction of rotation to p... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6152441 | Method and apparatus for moving sheet material gripper bars in a sheet-processing machine In a method and apparatus for moving gripper bars for the advance of sheet material in a sheet-processing machine with processing stations having upper portions and lower portions, the gripper bars are cyclically advanced in an advance plane which extends... | 11/28/2000 |
| 5979701 | Page brake in a printing machine fly A sheet brake improves laying sheets off onto a stack in the take-off unit of a sheet-fed rotary printing press. The sheet brake is provided with a crank drive that generates a back-and-forth stroke by way of a synchronized drive mechanism at the rate tra... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5749572 | Gripper control for a cyclically rockingly driven pregripper for single-sheet transport in a sheet-fed printing press Gripper control for a cyclically rockingly driven pregripper for single-sheet feeding in a sheet-fed printing press, the pregripper being disposed at a free end of a rocker lever, which is swivelable about a rocker shaft fixed to a frame of the printing p... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5697607 | Device for controlling grippers engaging sheet-like workpieces at an infeed station of a processing machine A device for controlling the gripping action of grippers on a plate-like workpiece at the end of the feeding table of a machine that processes sheet-like workpieces has an arrangement for controlling the upper mechanisms for positioning, respectively, the... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5505441 | Paper conveying apparatus for sheet-fed press A paper conveying apparatus for a sheet-fed press includes a shaft, a gripper shaft, a plurality of grippers, a gripper pad, levers, a rod, a slide member, rollers, and cam plates. The shaft has two ends pivotally supported by a pair of frames. The grippe... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5480133 | Adjustable sheet take-off mechanism for a screen printing press The invention is a take-off apparatus for removing sheets of stock from the bed of a screen printing press where the apparatus accommodates variations in the shape, position and size of the stock and includes a carriage member slidably mounted to a take-o... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5465955 | Method and apparatus for an external media buffer An external media transport buffer has a carriage supported for linear motion on parallel guide rails between an imagesetter and a processor. A pair of transport rollers is mounted for rotation on the carriage. Two sensors are mounted within the buffer to... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5333402 | Sheet corner transfer system The disclosure relates to a sheet spreader for a sheet feeder apparatus comprising at least one pair of sheet clamps, a guideway extending along an entry to a sheet feeder, clamps mounted on the guideway for movement along the entry to the sheet feeder an... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5324017 | Screen printing take-off device A take-off device for gripping and releasing an article has a gripper heat capable of imparting a downward force to an article gripped thereof. The gripper head has a lower jaw and an upper jaw, the lower jaw being capable of moving linearly with respect ... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5040776 | Automatically operating system for taking up and discharging cloth articles or portions thereof from ironing apparatus A system for taking up and discharging ironed cloth articles from ironing apparatus comprises a column mounted on a base and supporting an articulated rotary arm at one end of which there is mounted a ball member for engaging an ironed cloth article and r... | 08/20/1991 |
| 5024432 | Sheet transfer device for a printing machine A sheet transfer device for a printing machine for taking over sheets which have been aligned at front lays and for transferring the sheets to a sheet-guiding drum includes a pregripper device swivellable between a sheet takeover and a sheet transfer posi... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5018463 | Stacking device having clamps along a circulating conveyor for clamping, conveying, and stacking sewn articles from a sewing machine to a cloth holding stand A clamping mechanism installed on a circulating conveyor is composed of a clamp and a supporting plate and a latch lever axially attached to the supporting plate. The clamp is designed to be opened to a specified extent by a coiled spring. When the clamp ... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4982834 | Gripping means A gripping system consisting of two jaws (2, 3) pivotable in relation to each other on a shaft (32), the shaft being secured to one jaw (3) and extending through a sleeve (53) secured to the other jaw (2), the shaft having an enlarged section (39) adjacen... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4897018 | Apparatus for stacking veneer sheets An apparatus for stacking veneer sheets includes a table on which to stack veneer sheets, a pair of first and second conveyors disposed on opposite sides of the table, and a veneer carrier located above the table and movable between the conveyors. The ven... | 01/30/1990 |
| 4879948 | Press with automatic sheet transport mechanism A printing press having novel sheet transport mechanisms which facilitate precise operation at high speeds. In the preferred embodiment, the press includes a printing bed which pivots forward and downward on parallel links to remove sheets of stock from f... | 11/14/1989 |
| 4848763 | Stacking machine for fabric articles A stacking machine includes a pair of gripping jaws that are openable and closable to grip a leading edge of an article and move it to a stacking position. The jaws are moved between a gripping position and a release position by a fluid cylinder assembly ... | 07/18/1989 |
