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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7281739 | Adjustable mount for vacuum cup with offset mounting post and swivel A material handling device includes a vacuum cup pivotally attached to a receiving collar and pivotable to engage a surface of an object to be picked up by the material handling system. The receiving collar includes a support post and a mounting collar that is movab... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7152531 | Interleaf removal apparatus, plate feed apparatus and image recording system An interleaf at the top position of a stack of plates and interleaves stored in a cassette is removed by attaching the interleaf to suction pads mounted to a vertically movable support. When the interleaf in the cassette is moved upwardly to a position opposed to a ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 5895037 | Drive transmission for a pull sucker or forwarding sucker, in particular, for a device for correcting misaligned sheets A drive transmission for a pull or forwarding sucker located in a suction head of a sheet feeder for translatorily driving a sucker-carrying support movable in a guide provided on a suction-head housing, the sucker-carrying support being connected articul... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5690327 | Lifting shoe for media handling and related cassette media holder A system for light-tight handling of a supply of media between a supply station, a workstation and a collecting station, comprises a media handling apparatus defined by a frame and a housing enclosing an internal confine. Within this confine are a supply ... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5433426 | Apparatus for removing a non-magnetic sheet from a stack of sheets Apparatus for destacking individual sheets from a stack of non-magnetic mutually clinging metal sheets includes a structure adjacent the side edge of the sheets having a series of vertically spaced horizontal ridges. A series of vacuum cups raise the edge... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5083763 | Method and apparatus for the picking up and handling of sheets of material, in particular sheets of porous and flexible material The invention relates to a method for picking up sheets of paper, cardboard or similar, especially porous material, one at a time from a pile of sheets for onward transfer, using a gripping apparatus fitted with gripping means and a sheet support disk, an... | 01/28/1992 |
| 4741567 | Robotic system and end effector An end effector suitable for manipulating articles such as mail flats is disclosed. This end effector has parallel reciprocating arms having suction cups for gripping the article to be manipulated and mechanical grippers mounted on the arms outboard of th... | 05/03/1988 |
| 4641827 | Fabric pickup and the like A fabric component pickup apparatus or the like having first and second fabric gripping elements defining first and second opposed gripping lines in the plane of the face of the fabric component, the fabric gripping elements adapted for movement relative ... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4116428 | Apparatus for separating lowermost sheets from a stack The lowermost sheet of an upright stack of superposed sheets is removed by a device which has one or more suction heads and is moved against the underside of the lowermost sheet prior to folding one or two marginal portions of such sheet downwardly to sep... | 09/26/1978 |
| 3937457 | Sheet feeder apparatus This sheet feeder apparatus is provided with pick-up heads for the sheets which heads are tiltable in at least one plane or in two planes automatically during the operation of the apparatus to properly align and/or stretch the sheets as they are picked-up... | 02/10/1976 |
