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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7651454 | Braille printing device Device for printing Braille characters on cardboard blanks travelling in a folder-gluer along a substantially planar path, the device comprising rotary embossing tools carried by two respective parallel shafts rotatably mounted above and below of the plane of said p... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7275743 | Multifunction output tray for printer and paper handling device A representative embodiment provides for an imaging apparatus including an output tray supported by the imaging apparatus and configured to receive sheet media from a first source and a second source, wherein the first source and the second source are respectively s... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7201714 | Paperboard cartons with laminated reinforcing ribbons and method of printing same A method of making reinforced cartons comprises the steps of advancing a length of carton material along a path and progressively laminating at least one ribbon of reinforcing material to the advancing length of carton material. The ribbon of reinforcing material ge... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7088475 | Image reading device There is disclosed an image reading device, comprises a stacking section for stacking a document, a reading section for reading an image of the document, a separating section for separating the document stacked on the stacking section sheet by sheet, a conveying sec... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7061637 | Method and apparatus for image forming capable of effectively collating a stack of single-/double-sided recording sheets in a desired ejection tray An image forming apparatus includes first and second image carrying members, ejection trays, and a sheet transferring mechanism. The first image carrying member carries images in increasing order of corresponding sheet numbers. The second image carrying member carri... | 06/13/2006 |
| 6994005 | Apparatus for slitting, merging, and cutting a continuous paperweb A paper web, which may be pinless, is slit into side-by-side web ribbons that are merged one on top of the other for simultaneous crosscutting into appropriate page lengths. One web ribbon wraps substantially about an angled turnbar to shift it into registry with th... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6689035 | Method and apparatus for designing and creating a package A comprehensive model design environment for creating a comprehensive model having a graphical design and a structural design includes at least two design stations and a database. Each design station comprises a graphical. design module for generating sig... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6599226 | Image forming system An image forming system with a finisher connected to a copying machine via an inverting unit. The finisher has a stapling section which staples sheets stacked on a tray with a stapler and a folding section which folds a sheet with folding rollers. In a co... | 07/29/2003 |
| 5816994 | Box-blank printer/slotting apparatus A box blank forming apparatus includes at least one printing assembly, a slotting assembly, and a feeding and conveying mechanism for feeding blanks through the apparatus. The printing assembly includes a rotatable printing cylinder, and the slotting asse... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5647949 | Folder for web-fed printing presses In a folding apparatus for web-fed rotary printing presses with linear folding units, transverse folding units and a cylinder part it is intended to selectively produce transversely stapled as well as transversely glued products. A receiving unit for inte... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5637070 | Curl correcting device This invention relates to a curl correcting device comprising a sheet transport path, an opening member openable from a main body of the device, for opening the sheet transport path, transport means for transporting a sheet along the sheet transport path,... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5314566 | Mailing machine including low speed sheet feeding and jam detection structure In a machine including structure for printing an indicia on a sheet at a predetermined printing speed, wherein the machine includes structure for feeding the sheet in a path of travel to the printing structure, apparatus for detecting a malfunction of the... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5230691 | Correction mechanism for bent recording sheet In an electrophotographic image recording apparatus, a bending correction mechanism is provided for correcting a bending direction of a recording sheet such as fan-fold paper which is fed therethrough. In the mechanism, a pressure roller is provided and i... | 07/27/1993 |
| 5163891 | Box forming machine having a vacuum belt top conveyor A machine for forming a box without smearing or distorting its printed matter. The machine has a feed section at its input stage, a stacking section at its output stage, and print, dryer, and die cutter sections at its intermediate stages. The dryer secti... | 11/17/1992 |
| 4753059 | Packaging machine comprising printing means A packaging machine is provided having an intermittent foil advance with printing means. During the working cycle of the packaging machine the foil is passed through rotary type printing means for obtaining an improved printing format and generating large... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4676047 | Apparatus for forming a tab on a tape for tearing a packing film An apparatus for forming a tab on a tearing tape for a packing film for a pack of cigarettes, etc. and printing an identifying color or pattern on the tab. A cutter is provided on a roller facing a roll for supporting a bonded assembly of a web for formin... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4559755 | Device for flexographic printing on a strip of packing material in packaging machines, particularly for blister packs In the case of a packaging machine, in particular for blister packs, a device for flexographic printing on a strip of packaging having a continuous movement comprises a roll supporting a printing block of resilient material in plate form which is detachab... | 12/24/1985 |
| 4471693 | Apparatus for feeding cardboards to a carton making section An apparatus of feeding cardboards to a carton making section in the course of which they are individually printed in ink of different colors station by station, the apparatus including a conveyor unit located between each adjacent stations, which conveyo... | 09/18/1984 |
| 4339088 | Embossing method to avoid nesting in convolutely wound rolls and product An embossing method to avoid nesting in convolutely wound rolls and product wherein the repeat length is at least as great as the roll circumference.... | 07/13/1982 |
| 4211396 | Web-fed rotary printing press A web-fed rotary printing press apparatus for the production of printed products of various sizes is disclosed. The apparatus includes forme cylinders having removable printing formes of different sizes, adjustably positionable cross cutting cylinders, sp... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4187572 | Method for making integrated book lining In making integrated linings to be applied to spines of a succession of books in a bookmaking process, a high speed low cost method is disclosed which includes feeding strip stock from a supply of lining material, printing simulated headbands on one surfa... | 02/12/1980 |
| 4181068 | Apparatus for producing paper towels A roll of embossed paper towelling in which the embossing comprises lands and valleys between the lands wherein the lands are in rows extending at an acute angle to the longitudinal direction of the towelling. The acute angle of the rows of lands offsets ... | 01/01/1980 |
