Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7380651 | Order handling system An order merging system includes two first case guides with a pair of twisted lanes. The case guides are downwardly sloped and guide a product case along in each case guide. Two raisable guides are connected downstream of the case guides and are in communication wit... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7322923 | Dunnage sheet removal apparatus A dunnage removal apparatus is situated adjacent a load conveyor and more particularly at a transfer device that moves a unitized load from the load conveyor to a pre-feeder. The dunnage removal apparatus includes a guide chute that funnels a loose flap of the dunna... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7284946 | Mobile skid turner A mobile skid turner for inverting skid loads of paper includes an H-shaped base frame portion with casters for facilitating movement in desired directions and opposing upright structural members at an intermediate location. A rotatable shaft facilitates the rotatio... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7226271 | Apparatus and method for feeding plates The present invention is directed to a plate feeder and a method of supplying plates. The plate feeder supplies plates on an as-needed basis and includes a holding structure for holding a plate. A proximity sensor detects whether a plate is held by the holding struc... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7150383 | Storable transfer conveyor system A storable transfer conveyor system for moving bundles from an upstream conveyor to a downstream conveyor utilizing a storable transfer conveyor which is movable from a first operative position, wherein the bundles are transferred to the downstream conveyor, to a se... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7032899 | Print media feed alignment mechanism To maintain quality printed images in high speed photographic quality printing it is necessary to ensure accurate registry of the print media with the printheads. To ensure this result an alignment mechanism is provided for the stack of print media to be fed to the ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6918733 | Hold down clamp for holding down sheet material A hold down clamp for holding down a stack of sheet material, preferably on a transportation trolley selectively in operative association with a printing machine. The hold down clamp has a vertically adjustable holding arm selectively lockable along a substantially ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6682064 | Method and apparatus for dismantling a stack of flat objects piece by piece A method for dismantling a stack (1) of flat objects (2, 3) piece by piece, in which the top object (2) of the stack (1) is moved in its plane, gripped at its freed edge and removed from the stack (1). The top object (2) is moved against a stop (5), at le... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6609875 | Plate material carrying apparatus A material table 39 supporting materials W is provided so as to be able to move between a plate material taking-in/out area 11 and material wait area 13, and when the material table 39 is positioned in the plate material taking-in/out area 11, the materia... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6595740 | Prefeeder assembly An improved prefeeder assembly (10) for receiving a stack (28) of blanks and for inverting and passing the inverted blanks to processing equipment, the prefeeder assembly (10) having a rotator frame (12) which is positonable in an upright load entry posit... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6481954 | Method and device for feeding panels to a panel saw machine The feeding method concerns the transfer of panels (2) from the top of a vertical stack (17) to a loading table (4) on a panel saw machine. The panels (2) are pushed by mobile horizontal pushers (7) from the stack (17) until they arrive at an infeed devic... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6422375 | System and method for transporting and reorienting items A system and method for transporting and reorienting one or more items is provided. The system includes a first transport apparatus that can transport and reorient an item from a loading location to a first unloading location. For example, a first carder ... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6250500 | Dispensing apparatus An apparatus for individually dispensing printed articles such as newspapers comprises a housing and a movable table in the housing for carrying in readiness a stack of printed articles on the table. A removal device permits access to a printed article in... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6210156 | Heat treatment material handling unit A method and apparatus for sequentially heat treating small parts processes the parts individually through a heat treatment process at a predetermined rate, so that each part is heat treated for a predetermined time and all parts are heat treated equally.... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6155775 | Destacking feeder An apparatus and method feeding, destacking and orienting books for subsequent operation such as a jacket wrapping operation. This is achieved by feeding stacks of books forwardly on a conveyor into a destacking station. The books are stripped one at a ti... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6152682 | Plate material carrying apparatus A material table 39 supporting materials W is provided so as to be able to move between a plate material taking-in/out area 11 and material wait area 13, and when the material table 39 is positioned in the plate material taking-in/out area 11, the materia... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6123329 | Paper feeder and paper tray elevation device therefor A paper feeder for feeding papers to an image forming apparatus and a paper tray elevation device therefore are disclosed. A first tray is movable up and down with a plurality of papers stacked thereon. A paper feed member feeds the papers from the first ... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6106220 | Slipsheet retainer for bulk depalletizer/palletizer An apparatus that is one part of a conveying system for transferring objects, such as bottles, removes layers of the objects from a pallet on which the layers have been stacked or, in reverse operation, arranges the objects in layers stacked on one anothe... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6089819 | Method and apparatus for palletizing and depalletizing layers of articles on stackable pallets A palletizer/depalletizer system includes a palletizer assembly and depalletizer assembly stacked one beneath the other on a common frame assembly. Both assemblies are adapted to handle layers of articles and stacks of pallets. The palletizer loads articl... | 07/18/2000 |
| 5954183 | Device for the transfer of products A device for the transfer of products from the upper terminal section of a first vertical conveyor belt to an initial section of a horizontal channel of reception and advancement along a feed line of the products themselves, which channel comprises at lea... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5924839 | Rearrangement method and apparatus The order in which printing work products, such as finished books, book blocks and other similar objects, are transported is rearranged intermediate serially arranged entry and discharge conveyors. In a destacking mode of operation, stacks of products are... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5759010 | Sealed cartridge to improve chemistry stability of test elements An improved cartridge and method of dispensing test elements therefrom, which seals off the elements from exposure to the atmosphere. The cartridge includes, at its end apertured to eject test elements, a cover plate, said plate optionally being biased in... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5746572 | Conveying apparatus and methods of use This invention pertains to removing a row or layer of material from a supporting surface, with the row or layer advancing on a removal conveyor in a line abreast, and converting the row or layer into a line, advancing single file. Apparatus and methods ar... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5718625 | Coin store A last-in-first-out coin store comprises a tubular housing (21) in which a coin stack support (22) is driven upwardly or downwardly by an endless belt (28) driven from a motor (23). A coin dispensing mechanism comprises a bar (37) positioned above the tub... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5692878 | Apparatus for removing plate-shaped objects from a stack Apparatus for removing plate-shaped objects (CDs) from a stack, the apparatus having a gripper mechanism, a stack magazine with a vertically arranged shaft that passes through the central openings (O) of the plate-shaped objects of the stack, and a liftin... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5678816 | System for feeding short length sheets for slitting A system for feeding and slitting short length, long width sheets and particularly suitable for solid fiberboard materials, includes a dual acting rake-type sheet feeder, a sheet decurling apparatus, and a multi-head slitter, all of which are interconnect... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5641266 | Method for feeding a sheet substack from a sheet stack and apparatus for implementing said method A method and apparatus for feeding a sheet substack formed by one or a greater number of stacked sheets from a sheet stack (8), in particular feeding the sheets into a cutting saw from a feed station (1) or similar unit, the feed station comprising a push... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5451136 | Automatic depalletizer A material handling system includes a depalletizer comprising a tower frame and a tilt bed which extends into the tower frame and is tilted to a predetermined angle. A lift bed raises a loaded pallet to the level of an exit conveyor. A back dam is dispose... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5443356 | Automatic slide-on panel loading system A system having a stack of panels from which a pack of any given height may be removed, a work station having a supporting surface, a transfer bar for feeding the pack onto the supporting surface using at least one push member, and an arresting assembly f... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5437533 | Thru-flow palletizer/depalletizer Article diverting and storage system and method utilizing a thru-flow palletizer/depalletizer. Articles on an article conveyor are diverted from the article conveyor at a first location and moved along a first path toward a discharge end where a sweep uni... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5423657 | Prefeeder for stacked sheets of paperboard products An improved prefeeder assembly for shingling planar sheets in which a sheet stack is positioned on a prefeeder lift conveyor which lowers the sheet stack into a floor pit to incrementally elevate the sheet stack. A block pusher assembly sequentially pushe... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5419676 | Pile board inserting method A method of piling sheets arriving from a printing press in a continuous sequence involves stacking the sheets on a first pile board in a first piling unit, and while the assembly of the stack of sheets is progressing, inserting a pile board into another ... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5312221 | Pile board inserting method and a pile board inserting machine for carrying out the same A pile board inserting machine comprises two pile board inserting units installed in combination respectively with the two sheet piling units of a sheet-fed printing press. Printed sheet are delivered alternately to the two pile board inserting units ever... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5310307 | Depalletizing device and method A device and method are disclosed for moving articles, such as cans, by groups, or tiers, from a pallet to an adjoining surface, such as a belt conveyor. A pair of sweep arms of a sweep unit move about a closed loop path to alternately engage the trailing... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5256028 | Process for handling material This invention pertains to handling of material on a supporting surface, preferably a pallet 74. It is addressed especially to the handling of thin-sectioned sheet material such as loose newspaper and magazine products in pallet loads. The invention provi... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5244340 | Semiautomatic equipment for the separation of loose large size reams from a stack of single sheet The semiautomatic equipment included a pair of horizontal knives disposed mutually parallel, adjustable for height, and positioned a short distance from the edge of a stack of sheets for penetrating the depth of one ream, selected previously by hand. The ... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5240370 | Pile board inserting method and a pile board inserting machine for carrying out the same A pile board inserting machine comprises two pile board inserting units installed in combination respectively with the two sheet piling units of a sheet-fed printing press. Printed sheet are delivered alternately to the two pile board inserting units ever... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5238355 | Apparatus for feeding packaging machines with stacks of sheet material An apparatus for feeding packaging machines with stacks of cutouts includes a centering member for supporting members of a plurality of stacks of cutouts, the stacks being arranged mutually side by side so as to form parallel and mutually adjacent rows on... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5205704 | Apparatus for prefeeding sheets of paperboard products An improved prefeeder assembly for shingling sheets of planar material in which a sheet stack is positioned on a prefeeder lift conveyor which lowers the sheet stack into a floor pit to incrementally elevate the sheet stack. A block pusher assembly sequen... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5205703 | Top sheet hold down for stacked sheet handling machine A stacked sheet handling machine 11 includes a top sheet hold down apparatus 10 that prevents trailing sheets from following individual blocks of sheets separated from an upright stack supported on an elevator conveyor 15. A pusher plate 20 is moved later... | 04/27/1993 |
