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A vest or belt is integrally formed with tubular, pet receiving passageways which extend around the wearer's body and terminate in pocket-like chambers for feeding and retrieval.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7904015 | Cut sheet media handling transport A media handling transport includes first and second device halves. Each of the device halves includes first, second and third body members, with the first end portion of the second body member disposed adjacent the first end portion of the first body member, the fi... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7532850 | Document discharge cassette, image scanner having the cassette, and document scanning method A document discharge cassette, an image scanner having the cassette, and a document scanning method to be embodied by the image scanner having the document discharge cassette attached thereto. The document discharge cassette includes a base, positioned under the doc... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7509087 | Scanning system with scanning window having elevated edge optimized for copying bound books A scanning system for scanning a document placed on a document platen and for projecting an image onto a photosensitive image medium to form a latent image of the document thereon including a housing, a photosensitive scanner, and a scanning window is provided. The ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7440712 | Original cover closer and office equipment including original cover closer An original cover closer has first and second parts for supporting the cover on a main body of office equipment. The first part supports a heavier side of the cover and a second part supports the lighter side of the cover. Both parts have a mounting member with a bo... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7409184 | Original document reading device When an original document is placed on the lift tray, a timer is reset and starts counting a predetermined time (S12). Whether an alignment device is moved to adjust the original documents loaded on the lift tray in, for example, the widthwise direction trans... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7401772 | Document feeder and image reading apparatus with the same A sheet feeding device includes a sheet feed stacker and a transport belt disposed along a platen substantially horizontally; a discharge stacker disposed above the sheet feed stacker; and a light-shielding cover member provided between the platen and the sheet feed... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7396121 | Ink-jet printer An ink jet printer has two first driven rollers (A) disposed at a most upstream position in a secondary scanning direction, two first driven rollers (B) disposed at an intermediate position in the secondary scanning direction, and a single first driven roller (C) di... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7379700 | Image reading apparatus with rotatable internal and external guides A document reading apparatus includes a feeding roller for feeding a document, a reading unit for reading images of the document fed by the feeding roller and a substantially U-shaped document transfer path for guiding the document fed the feeding roller. The substa... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7330692 | Electricity waste suppressing original document size detection apparatus An original document reading apparatus includes a plurality of point light source elements (e.g. a LED array) in a main scanning direction beneath an original document table, a moving device that moves the point light source elements in a sub scanning direction, and... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7320464 | Original reading device with controller An original reading device includes a registration roller located upstream of an original reading position in an original transport path for adjusting the timing of feeding an original to the original reading position. There is at least one original feed roller for ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7248378 | Image reader with two duplex copy modes An image reader has an original tray for feeding an original from a bundle of originals, a first transport passage for transporting the original fed by the original tray, a scanner for reading an image on one side of the original from one side of the transported ori... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7231171 | Image copying apparatus and image copying method The image copying apparatus of the present invention comprises a document drawing-in port for drawing an original document before reading operation in and a document discharging port for discharging the original document after reading operation, and copies images of... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7226050 | Discharge sheet stacking apparatus and image forming apparatus provided with the same A sheet post-treating apparatus is provided with a discharged sheet stacking tray displaceably provided in a casing portion for stacking thereon sheets discharged from the casing portion, and a holding portion for holding the discharged sheet stacking tray in a firs... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7123873 | Printing system with inverter disposed for media velocity buffering and registration Parallel printing systems and methods incorporate inverter assemblies for not only inverting media during transport through the system but also to register the media or provide a velocity buffer transports with different drive velocities. The inverter assemblies can... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7099619 | Automatic document feeder An automatic document feeder (ADF) including a platen cover which covers a copying region, a document tray which is provided on the platen cover and on which a document fed to the copying region is stacked, a pickup assembly which includes a pickup roller that picks... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7095534 | Method and device for positioning of platen glass of image reader A method and mechanism to set a platen glass of an image reader by demounting the platen glass after the platen glass has previously been position-adjusted and positioning means have been fixed to this adjusted position and then achieving the desired positioning by ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7077589 | Image forming apparatus Recording medium feeding means includes a recording medium determination device, in which an arm biased by a spring toward recording medium loading means is rotatably attached to a lever rotated by a rotatably driven cam member, two holder segments are rockingly att... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7050145 | Device for copying both sides of an object in a single pass using an office copier A device for use with a copier to make copies of both sides of a document or other objects in a single pass. The device is configured to rest on a copier platen without being attached to the platen and without deriving power from the copier. A document holder in the... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046953 | Image formation apparatus equipped with automatic document feeder In an image forming apparatus having a document feeder for taking up a document from a document bundle placed on a document tray, a controller has a normal mode to perform a normal-size conveyance control by taking up each document from a bundle of documents having ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7032900 | Document feeding apparatus, image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus A document feeding apparatus in which the vibration of a document by the shock when the trailing edge of the document has passed an ante-reading roller is prevented to thereby prevent the misregister or distortion of a read image. More particularly, a document feedi... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7024152 | Printing system with horizontal highway and single pass duplex Parallel printing systems include first and second adjacent electronic printers and at least one sheet bypass section extending around the second electronic printer to provide a sheet transporting path overlying the second electronic printer and bypassing the second... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7003256 | Image recording device An image recording device includes: a reading unit for reading an image of original paper; a paper storage for storing recording paper of a plurality of types; a recording unit for recording the image read by the reading unit, on the recording paper alternatively se... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6993149 | Embedding digital watermarks in spot colors The present invention relates to digitally watermarking spot color images. In one embodiment, an original spot color is replaced with a combination of cyan (C), magenta (M) and yellow (Y) components and the original spot color. The CMY components convey a digital wa... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6978112 | Image processing system An image processing system and method for copying an original document while maintaining the security of the document and for providing a high quality copy each time a copy is required. The system and method comprising inputting image information, generating output ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6973285 | Discharge sheet stacking apparatus and image forming apparatus provided with the same A sheet post-treating apparatus is provided with a discharged sheet stacking tray displaceably provided in a casing portion for stacking thereon sheets discharged from the casing portion, and a holding portion for holding the discharged sheet stacking tray in a firs... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6956679 | Paper feeder apparatus and facsimile apparatus A paper feeding apparatus is provided with a pressing arm that presses the separator to a paper feed roller, a document guide that has a pair of guide parts for pressing a document to the paper feed roller, and a spring part that applies spring force to the pressing... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6901236 | Method, program, and apparatus for preventing a reproduction of an anti-copy document, and a medium storing the program An image processing apparatus includes a scanning mechanism, first and second memories, an image accumulating mechanism, a detecting mechanism, a determining mechanism, and a code assigning mechanism. The first memory stores a reference dot pattern indicating an ant... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6877742 | Document feeding apparatus, image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus A document feeding apparatus in which the vibration of a document by the shock when the trailing edge of the document has passed an ante-reading roller is prevented to thereby prevent the misregister or distortion of a read image. More particularly, a document feedi... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6859638 | Original document tray for scanning and printing apparatus An original document tray for a scanning and printing apparatus includes original document guides for guiding an original document in the original document tray into a scanning unit by determining or regulating a widthwise position of the original document, and manu... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6810231 | Sheet transfer apparatus and image reading apparatus A sheet transfer apparatus transfers a sheet to a predetermined position. The apparatus includes a discharge tray; a support device for rotationally supporting the discharge tray; an interconnecting device that activates according to a rotation of the discharge tray... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6798546 | Scanning document reader and memory medium storing scanner driver program A control device for controlling a medium reader having a medium transport roller whose having in a color distinguishable from a color of a medium. The control device has a decision means for deciding a valid data portion depending on the color of the medium transpo... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6714757 | Image reading apparatus and an image forming apparatus having the image reading apparatus A conveying guide base is formed integrally with an original base frame. When an original fed by an automatic original feeding apparatus is read, an image reading unit is set to stay at a predetermined reading position and an image of the original is read by the ima... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6593999 | Original cover closer Original cover closer with mounting base and supporting member has bent side plates rotatably mounted to each other. A lifting member with document pressure plate has side plates mounted to the supporting member side plated enabling the lifting member sid... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6226473 | Copying apparatus for discharging recording sheet face-up or face-down In response to the setting of a first face-down mode on an operation panel, a topside pickup roller picks up documents stacked face-up in a document tray to bring the document to a document platen. In response to the setting of face-up mode on the operati... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6206359 | Auto document feeder An automatic document feeder includes a feed tray 2 on which documents are placed, a feeder 4 for feeding documents on the feed tray 2 to a conveyor path, conveying 8 for conveying the fed documents to an image reading position, a discharging 9 for discha... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6185403 | Sheet conveying device, and an image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus having the sheet conveying device A sheet conveying device including a pair of rollers to convey a sheet impinged against a nip portion of the pair of rollers. Also included is a driving device which drives the pair of rollers to rotate in either a forward direction or a reverse direction... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6169873 | Automated face up and down detection of image information An automatic sheet feeder is provided with a controller and the controller is provided with a scanning input and user-controlled inputs. Sheets provided at the feeder are scanned to determine image status with regard to face up/face down orientation and s... | 01/02/2001 |
| 5899612 | Document feeder having retractable document guiding member A document feeder having a cover covering a portion of a main body and adapted to be pivotally opened, and a pair of document transportation rollers provided in an abutting relation in the midst of a document transportation path for transportation of a do... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5881350 | Original guiding device An original guiding device capable of improving the conveyance of an original in an original conveying path. There is provided an original carrying-in path formed so as to be inclined from the original conveying path and a guiding mechanism for guiding th... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878318 | Automatic document feeder In an automatic document feeder, an original tray has an original platen on its upper surface. Originals put on the original platen are fed along a conveying path by conveying rollers and conveyance auxiliary rollers. The originals fed are separated one a... | 03/02/1999 |
