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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8033973 | Pin wheel roller assembly A pin wheel roller assembly for a bacon slicer. The roller assembly is formed with a number of individual spacer segments and an end cap. The pin wheel assembly is formed with a pin wheel sandwiched between adjacent cylindrical segments and the end cap. ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7491160 | Grooved forming roll A grooved forming roll in a paper machine has a rotably supported shell (20) with circular openings (21) arranged to be open at least on the outer surface of the shell (20). Each opening (21) has a circular groove which is formed on the o... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7462146 | Roller member, and process for its manufacture In a roller member having at least a mandrel and a conductive elastic layer provided on the peripheral surface of the mandrel, the roller member has a surface roughness Rz jis 94 of from 0.5 μm to 10 μm, and the roller member contains voids in the vicinity of its ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7425125 | Roller for forming noodles and the like A roller (1) for forming noodles and the like (W) comprises a roller body (2), an intermediate layer (4) and a fluoropolymer layer (3). The intermediate layer (4) is formed from a thermally sprayed material with open cells such as ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7413786 | Adhesive roll cleaner An adhesive roll cleaner 1 comprises a core tube and a plurality of adhesive tapes 3 having an adhesive portion A on one side thereof helically wound around the core tube in a layered configuration with the adhesive portion A out. Each of the adhesive ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7401780 | Roller with recessed kicker feature A method and apparatus for moving media through an image forming device using a roller having a recessed kick area is described herein. The roller includes a contact surface having a first radius that extends 360° around the roller. The roller also includes at leas... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7374527 | Rubber roller for image-forming apparatus A rubber roller, for use in an image-forming apparatus, which is formed by molding a rubber composition into the shape of a roller. In the rubber roller, a complex elastic modulus E* of rubber and a surface roughness Rz of the rubber roller satisfy a relationship in... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7353681 | Roll embossing of discrete features A cold rolling process for impressing a pattern on a surface of a sheet metal article involves passing the sheet article through a pair of rolls and engaging a patterning feature with isolated areas of a surface of the sheet article, at a localized pressure to plast... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7351309 | Roll in a paper or board machine and a dryer group in a paper or board machine A roll in a paper or board machine has a roll frame or center shaft (15) with bearings mounted at its ends and a groove-like surface structure (10). There is a contact between the surface structure and the center shaft so that an essentially closed str... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7344132 | Cash dispensing automated banking machine and method An automated banking machine (10) includes at least one of sheet dispensing mechanisms (34, 36, 38, 40, 210). Each sheet dispensing mechanism includes a picking member (72, 212). The picking member rotates, and with each rotation generally cause... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7328485 | Fiber spreading apparatus A fiber spreading apparatus prevents a fiber bundle from being split apart. Position restriction rollers 43g and 43h are arranged in a fiber bundle streaming and feeding section 43 so as to restrict a streaming and feeding position... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7326322 | Apparatus and method for degrading a web in the machine direction while preserving cross-machine direction strength An embossing system is provided for embossing a web having a first embossing roll having embossing elements and a second embossing roll having embossing elements, wherein at least a portion of the embossing elements of the first and second embossing rolls are substa... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7322917 | Embossing cylinder with interchangeable sleeve and with system for locking the sleeve at the ends and embossing machine comprising said cylinder The rotating cylinder for processing a web material comprises an essentially rigid cylindrical core (13), on which is fitted an interchangeable sleeve (45) of elastically expandable material whose rigidity is less than that of the material of the core;... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7322175 | Crop conditioning roller flute shape A forage conditioner for conditioning cut crop material from a forage harvester includes a fixed bottom fluted roller carried in end housings and a top fluted roller which is pivotally mounted on the housings by a linkage pivotal relative to the housing about an axi... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7263739 | Roller for mop The cleaning implement includes a shaft having an operator end and a cleaning end, a mop head comprising a liquid-absorbent material and a wringing mechanism. The mop head and the wringing mechanism are movable relative to one another between at least a cleaning pos... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7225842 | Feed rollers for tree handling A feed roll for tree handling has a number of strips which substantially cover its outer face. The strips have leading and trailing edges shaped to interdigitate with one another. A layer of resilient or slippery material is located between the strips and a drum. Th... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7222570 | Planographic printing plate supply unit including carrying roller with hollow convex portions A planographic printing plate supply unit comprising: carrying rollers rotating while pressing a stacking bundle, in which planographic printing plates and covering papers are stacked alternately, so as to carry the planographic printing plate and covering paper at ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7204290 | Apparatus for removing cover of golf ball from core A cover peeling machine includes a pair of rolls. The roll has an almost conical shape. Both of the rolls are rotated in a reverse direction. The direction of the rotation is an inward direction as seen from above. A golf ball is put close to a tip of the roll. In t... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7175738 | Automated fold and seal apparatus A folding and sealing apparatus supporting a feed platform for feeding a supply of pre-glued forms to the folding and sealing apparatus. The housing accommodating a first roller, a second roller, a third roller and a fourth roller, and the first and second rollers f... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7147453 | Device for treating flat material The invention relates to a device for embossing and/or glazing films. The device for embossing includes a first and second embossing roll, through which flat material can be fed under pressure, in order to create a pattern. An additional embossing roll is connected ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7125012 | Rotatable feed wheel for sheet converting machine A feed wheel includes a hub and a discontinuous tread removably fitted about the hub. At leading and trailing ends of the discontinuous tread are mateable non-planar female and male surfaces which interfit with one another and tend to interlock the tread ends togeth... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7112052 | Powder compacting machine The present invention concerns a compacting machine, in which the compacting elements can be removed from the compactor housing transversely to the direction of the drive shafts. ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7095600 | Electrostatic charge neutralization using grooved roller surface patterns A method for coating a liquid composition from an applicator to a first surface of a moving web having opposite first and second surfaces, the web being conveyed along a path through a coating apparatus, the coating apparatus including a charge neutralization statio... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7059051 | Fluted roll and method for the manufacture thereof A method of manufacturing fluted rolls, in particular for corrugating machines, comprises the steps of providing a fluted-roll blank which has a central longitudinal axis and a longitudinal direction that is parallel thereto and a surface; providing a grinding devic... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7058344 | Developing apparatus A developing apparatus supplies a developer from a developing roller to an image-bearing body that bears an electrostatic latent image thereon. A toner-supplying roller is rotatably supported to oppose the developing roller. A rotating body has recesses formed in it... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7052780 | Coated roll or cylinder and machine having same The invention provides a coated composite cylinder and a machine for making paper including a coated composite cylinder. On top of said composite cylinder (1) is drawn or extruded a metal casing (2), whose metal surface is modified with a metal treatme... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7008123 | Image forming device having a brush type processing member The present invention relates to an image-forming device that comprises a roller that includes a plurality of micromembers. The micromembers are preferably hook or loop-like members made of a compliant material such as plastic or rubber. The micromembers on the roll... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6982116 | Coatings on fiber reinforced composites The invention is a coating and a method for applying coatings to fiber reinforced composite materials. A first polymeric layer, free of fibers and particulate, coats a fiber reinforced polymer substrate. The first layer joins the fiber reinforced polymer substrate t... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6981935 | Suction roll with sensors for detecting temperature and/or pressure An industrial roll includes: a substantially cylindrical shell having an outer surface and an internal lumen; a polymeric cover circumferentially overlying the shell outer surface; and a sensing system. The sensing system includes: a plurality of sensors embedded in... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6973282 | Device for transporting toners to/from a toner deposition unit in an electrophotographic printing or copying device In a device for transporting toner in an electrophotographic printing or copying device, a rotatable cylinder has a cylinder sheath. The cylinder such includes a metallic layer having a surface with a roughness search that at least one of peaks and columns are provi... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6969061 | Roller element for hardcopy apparatus A printer or other hardcopy apparatus comprises a pinch system (20) comprising a pinch wheel (21) and a drive roller (23) in which the pinch wheel is arranged to contact a print media at locations which move continuously transversely of the dire... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6929592 | Roll cover The present invention is directed to a roll cover for a calender or press roll for treating a material web. The roll cover includes a layer of elastomeric material having filaments running approximately longitudinally with respect to a web run direction and transver... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6904253 | Charging member having an elastic foam member including cell portions whose gap ratio is 5% to 50%, charging apparatus, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus having such charging member A charging member for charging a member to be charged, includes an elastic foam member provided at a surface of the charging member. The elastic foam member includes a plurality of cell portions with wall portion defining the cell portions. The gaps connecting the c... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6884205 | Non-marking web conveyance roller A non-marking web conveyance roller has a generally irregular surface with a plurality of rounded up features that promotes superior venting of entrained air. The surface finish of the roller, formed by a thermal spray process, prevents the formation of impression a... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6881001 | Method and machine for loosening artificial turf infills Devices and methods for softening the infill layer of artificial turf. Multiple prongs extend from a rake or a rotating drum or wheel that is pushed or pulled across the artificial turf. In one embodiment, the prongs eject pressurized gas or liquid into the base of ... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6875163 | Industrial sponge roller device having reduced residuals An industrial sponge device and a method of manufacturing the same. The sponge is made from a polyvinyl acetal material with a process in which the pores are formed by gas to provide an open pore structure having no fibrils. Additionally, the sponge is purified by a... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6866619 | Disintegrator roll with a coated accessory wire For an improvement of the coating of disintegrator rolls, an accessory wire in the area of a tooth base is coated with a reduced quantity of hard material granulate as compared to the coating on the tooth. With the proposed coating, the advantage is gained that a pr... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6862061 | Rubbing device for providing uniform alignment in liquid crystal display A rubbing device for alignment-treating an alignment layer on a substrate of a liquid crystal display, and the liquid crystal display in which the alignment layer on the substrate is rubbed by using the rubbing device. The rubbing device comprises a rubbing roller h... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6810227 | Foamed elastic member for use in image forming apparatus A foamed elastic member according to the invention comprises an elastic member made of polyurethane foam molded by an in-mold foaming process, and has properly determined physical properties of its surface and/or properly determined shape and arrangement of foam cel... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6796233 | Plate cylinder with splined shell A plate cylinder has a cylinder body having a cylinder body outer surface for a first image to be printed and a first end, and a shell having an inner surface circumferentially disposed about the first end and having a gap for holding a printing plate, the shell bei... | 09/28/2004 |
