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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7914215 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit which forms an image on a recording sheet, a casing which houses the image forming unit and holds the image forming units, a conveying roller which applies a conveying force to the recording sheet by contacti... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7704000 | Printer dock with two position tray A printer dock for use with a digital data terminal, has a housing having a paper inlet portal, a first tray receiver, and a second tray receiver. The first tray receiver adjoins the paper inlet portal. The second tray receiver is disposed in spaced relation to the ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7566183 | Image forming device comprising means for adjusting a position of a plurality of press rollers A paper output mechanism includes a supporting frame supporting a rotational shaft on which output rollers are fixed. Pressing rollers are fixed at an intermediate position between the output rollers. A guide cover is mounted on the supporting frame. Supporting fram... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7524121 | Image forming apparatus A printer includes a front panel having an approximately flat main surface which serves as one of the surfaces of the external housing of the printer, a feed-tray attachment hole for detachably attaching a feed tray which stores a paper sheet to the main body of the... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7465110 | Image forming apparatus A printer includes a front panel having an approximately flat main surface which serves as one of the surfaces of the external housing of the printer, a feed-tray attachment hole for detachably attaching a feed tray which stores a paper sheet to the main body of the... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7435025 | Image recording apparatus An image recording apparatus includes an accommodation section, an image recording section, an outer arcuate guide member, an inner arcuate guide member, and a feeding section. Recording media are stacked on the accommodation section. The image recording section for... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7422319 | Paper discharger and ink jet recording apparatus incorporating the same [Object] To discharge printed paper to a different position on a single discharge tray by providing a changing means for changing a discharge direction of paper conveyed and discharged from a paper discharge part. [Solving Means] A page printer 10 | 09/09/2008 |
| 7413361 | Recording apparatus and control method thereof When the trailing edge of a recording sheet is released from a nip of a first pair of rollers which hold and convey the recording sheet, on the upstream side in the conveyance path, a variance of electric power for driving the first pair of rollers is detected, and ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412200 | Sheet feed unit operable with smaller force and image forming apparatus A sheet feed unit for use in an image forming apparatus includes a sheet feed unit body and a sheet cassette. The sheet feed unit body includes a first frame and a first contact face provided on the first frame. The sheet cassette, which is withdrawable from the she... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7404558 | Sheet supplying device and sheet processing device using detecting lever A sheet supplying device has a sheet delivering roller for delivering sheets one by one; a feeding roller for feeding the sheet delivered by the sheet delivering roller; a pinch roller urged by the feeding roller to be rotated by the feeding roller; a detecting leve... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7398916 | Printer having straight media path A printer is provided having a print media supply, at least one printhead arranged to print on traveling print media, a feeder arranged to feed print media from the print media supply along a media path past the printhead, and a binder arranged on the media path for... | 07/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7383016 | Electrophotographic device capable of performing an imaging operation and a fusing operation at different speeds An electrophotographic imaging device comprises generally, an image transfer station configured to transfer a toned image to a substrate, a fuser assembly configured to fuse the toned image to the substrate and a transport device configured to transfer the substrate... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7371025 | Printer The present invention provides a low-profile printer. The printer has a claw installed on a plane which face an exposure surface of an instant film sheet, a single-rotation cam which completes a sequence of operations, and a three-rotation cam which rotates three t... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367667 | Image forming apparatus with conveying part arranged to allow drying An image forming apparatus has a recording head forming an image on paper by jetting ink, a conveying part conveying the paper to a position opposite to said recording head, and a reversing ejection part provided downstream in a paper conveyance direction with respe... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7367734 | Printer A printer less susceptible to paper jams, allowing reduction in number of components and having superior printing precision is provided. The printer includes a chassis, a printing portion mounted on the chassis for printing on a sheet of recording paper, a press rol... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7367733 | Actuated pressure roller in media transport An apparatus for transporting a sheet recording medium (12) has an entrance drive roller (16) paired with a corresponding entrance pressure roller (18) to form an entrance nip (14) for transporting the sheet recording medium (12) i... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364156 | Data processing apparatus A data processing apparatus having a construction for guiding a transported medium conveyed from a curved transportation unit enables opening and closing the guide unit. The data processing apparatus 1 has an intermediate roller 39 and guide portion | 04/29/2008 |
| 7356302 | Paper supply device and image forming device equipped with same A manual paper supply device is equipped with a paper shear prevention member 35 for preventing shear of the paper 9 loaded into the manual feed paper supply tray. A brush 36 is arranged on the paper shear prevention member 35 to make con... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7333765 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus having a discharge port for discharging a sheet after forming an image on the sheet by an image forming portion, and a discharge tray disposed on a downstream side of the discharge port for laminating the sheet discharged from the discharg... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7318033 | Method, apparatus and program for recognizing, extracting, and speech synthesizing strings from documents Even when a copying machine with a voice guidance function is used, a problem of wastefully copying wrong documents or documents with missing pages remains unsolved for visually impaired persons. To this end, a document image is read, character strings on the read d... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7310495 | Image forming apparatus The present invention provides an image forming apparatus that can perform stable sheet conveyance, regardless of whether a sheet processing apparatus is connected thereto. The image forming apparatus can be connected to a sheet processing apparatus that performs po... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310161 | Combined flat bed scanner/printer machine A combined flat bed scanner/printer machine having: a moving body; a scan module connected to the moving body to read a document; and a recording head connected to the moving body adjacent to the scan module, to print on a paper. The moving body is moved by a moving... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305921 | Combined printing press In order to process inexpensive printing materials in connection with the processing of an extremely wide range of coating media, such as solvent-containing printing inks, and, moreover, in connection with variable format configuration and extremely flexible process... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7303345 | Pinion roller drive for recording apparatus An apparatus for recording an image onto a sheet medium (12) has an entrance drive roller (16) paired with a corresponding entrance pressure roller (18) to form an entrance nip (14) for transporting the sheet medium into an image recordin... | 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 |
| 7303189 | System for media handling A media handling system is disclosed, which system includes a media picking unit for picking up individual media sheets from a stack of media sheets and a media output unit for advancing a printed media sheet toward an output area. The media picking unit includes a ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7293869 | Recording medium processing apparatus The apparatus has a carriage that holds a head, a carriage-driving mechanism having a motor, and a holding mechanism configured to press a recording medium to a medium-holding base. The holding mechanism has a pair of arm members and a pushing member secured to the ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7287846 | Inkjet printer cartridge with combined blotter A printer cartridge for an inkjet printer including a body containing at least one printing fluid reservoir, a printhead attached to the body and in fluid communication with the at least one printing fluid reservoir, a printing fluid blotter rotatably coupled to the... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7287922 | Exit roller system for an imaging apparatus including backup rollers configured to reduce tracking A backup roller is formed by a member having a rotational axis and a circumferential region around which a plurality of teeth are arranged. Each tooth of the plurality of teeth has a tip end extending in a direction away from the rotational axis. When the backup rol... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7290146 | Managed credential issuance In a method of issuing a credential, a request for issuance of the credential is received. Next, a unique identification for the requested credential is assigned and data elements corresponding to the credential are provided. A credential production data collection ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7281791 | Recording apparatus A recording apparatus has a recording medium feeding mechanism for feeding a recording medium by one at a time, a recording head for performing recording, a discharging roller having a discharging driven roller and a discharge driving roller and a recording medium s... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7275483 | Jam resistant printer bezel An anti-jam bezel is provided for dispensing a flexible substrate from an output slot. A guideway is provided for receiving the flexible substrate from a transport and guiding the flexible substrate into the output slot. The guideway may extend from the output slot ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7270324 | Sheet stacking apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet stacking apparatus including a sheet stacking tray for stacking sheets thereon, a first abutting member for abutting against the upper surface of the sheets stacked on the sheet stacking tray, and a second abutting member for abutting the underside of the sh... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7267501 | Image forming apparatus having a pickup roller for driving a discharge roller An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that prints an image on a medium. A transport unit transports the medium in a first direction to supply the medium to the image forming unit, and in a second direction for printing. Media is stacked on a pape... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7264237 | Sheet stacking-aligning apparatus, sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus The sheet stacking-aligning apparatus or the sheet processing apparatus includes a substantially horizontal stacking tray, a rear end aligning unit for aligning a rear end of a sheet bundle on the stacking tray, and a control unit for controlling an operation of the... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263327 | Image forming apparatus Problem The object is to provide an image-forming apparatus which is capable of releasing the heat generated in the apparatus without incorporating a fan. Means for Solving the Problem Three ribs 17 are provided to rise on the surface of ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7258339 | Sheet processing device with sheet lift preventing member and image forming apparatus having the same A sheet processing device of the invention has an upper conveying guide, being rotatable in the vertical direction, for guiding the upper surface of the sheet, a lower conveying guide, on which the sheets are stacked, for guiding the lower surface of the sheet, uppe... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7246962 | Exit roller system for an imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus includes a print engine having a print zone. A print media feed system transports a sheet of print media in a media feed direction along a media feed path through the print zone. The print media feed system includes a plurality of exit rollers p... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245869 | Paper supply unit and an image forming apparatus having the same A paper supply unit including a front cover mounted to a main body of the image forming apparatus to occupy and move between open and closed positions, and, when occupying the opened position, defining a paper receiving space in which printing paper is to be stacked... | 07/17/2007 |
