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 |
| 7090631 | Methods and apparatus for scoring and trimming imaged sheet media A sheet finishing apparatus includes a media path configured to receive a sheet of media moving along the media path. A creasing tool is located proximate to the media path and is configured to form a crease in the sheet of media. The apparatus also includes a sheet... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7011616 | Cutting cylinder for crosscutting a printing material web in a rotary press A cutting cylinder is mounted such that it can rotate and be driven and is provided with four cutting blades on its circumference, which blades divide the circumferential length into four sections arranged on the circumference of the cutting cylinder. ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6203482 | Cutting, scoring and perforating die set and method An apparatus for substantially-simultaneously die cutting cardboard sheets for forming folded cardboard cartons and an openable and closable tab. The improvement resides in a die set comprising a plurality of cutting knives projecting from a base, the cut... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6050927 | On-demand skip perforating An on-demand exact registration form web perforating method is simple yet effective, and can operate at high speed and a long life. A form web is moved in a predetermined path past first and second rotatable continuous circumferential perforator wheels mo... | 04/18/2000 |
| 5888183 | Method of working paperboard blanks A method of working paperboard blanks is disclosed. The method includes providing first and second pairs of parallel rotary shafts supporting first and second pairs of tool heads respectively. The first pair of tool heads is moved to a predetermined longi... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5797830 | Multi use paper and card stock cutter A multi-use cutter is especially useful for cutting standard size paper and card stock into business card sizes. The preferred model of the multi-use cutter will measure six inches deep by fifteen inches tall by fifteen and a half inches wide and will be ... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5057068 | Device for sidewise shifting of a tool in a slotting station contained within a machine processing sheet-like workpieces The invention is directed to a device for sidewise shifting and positioning of a tool in a slotting station situated within a machine used for processing sheet-like workpieces. The station includes a creasing tool, a counter tool, which are mounted on a f... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5035165 | Quick slip holder for bag machine A clamp member has a pair of integral jaws defining an aperture in which the upper end of a punch adaptor is clamped when the jaws are forced closed. The adaptor has a punch fastened to its lower end, for example by a tongue and groove connection; and a s... | 07/30/1991 |
| 4781668 | Cutting device for a corrugated box machine A cutting device for a cutting machine for use in the corrugated box industry is disclosed. Cooperating rollers or heads are positioned on opposed rotatable shafts. The heads are disposed for cutting or scoring material passed through the heads. A hub ass... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4648586 | Gear folder A gear folder for paper web ribbons utilizes four cooperating cylinders. The paper web is delivered between a cutting cylinder and a pin-holing and grooved bar cylinder where one or more cutting knives sever the web into signatures. The signatures are tak... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4285684 | Head for slitter-corrugator A ring-like head for a slitter-corrugator having an interiorly located spring-pressed pad for pressure contact with an air shaft to preclude inadvertent side shifting of the head at set-up time. The pad has a chamfered peripheral edge for ready movement o... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4268261 | Machine for the production of packaging wrappers Disclosed is an apparatus and method for the continuous production of packaging wrappers from cut blanks of flat material. A flap-like portion of the blank material is abraded in a particular fashion to produce an area which upon folding and gluing provid... | 05/19/1981 |
