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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8047108 | Sheet processing apparatus and sheet processing method A sheet processing apparatus comprises a first conveyer roller pair arranged at the upstream side of a sheet conveyance route and a second conveyer roller pair arranged at the downstream side of the sheet conveyance route so as to convey a sheet of paper from the up... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7428858 | Feedworks device An apparatus for feeding flat, rigid material through a cutter comprising a continuous drive conveyor belt with a non-skid face, having one or more Guide ‘V’ belts bonded to its reverse side parallel to the direction of movement, which ‘V’ belts communicate ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7370563 | Process and device for manufacturing a product from strip tape, especially for manufacturing a medicinal and/or active substance-containing product as well as fillable containers or sealed-margin bags A process for manufacturing a product from strip tape starting from a broad web of material includes the step of separating the web into individual strips with a smooth stripping roll, conveying each strip in a vacuum conveyor channel, turning the strips on their wa... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7333767 | Paper post-processing apparatus and image recording apparatus An apparatus and method for punching a hole in a paper with a punching unit in a paper post-processing apparatus. The paper is nipped and transported with a transporting roller system arranged downstream of the punching unit in a paper transport direction to make at... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7322760 | Antijamming device for printers put in public places An antijamming device for a printed ticket vending machine having an exit opening for exiting of a printed ticket and a control for controlling feeding of unprinted tickets to a printing mechanism for printing tickets, having a pathway through which printed tickets ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7219888 | Multi-pass deskew method and apparatus A method for aligning print media on a feedpath includes the steps of: aligning a sheet of print media using a deskew mechanism; measuring the skew of the sheet after it has been aligned; and comparing the measured skew with a specified skew, and if the measured val... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7163287 | Combined cutter and slitter module for a printer A combined cutter and slitter module for a wallpaper printer, the combined cutter and slitter module comprising: at least two end plates, a media web able to pass between the at least two end plates; at least two slitter rollers rotatably held between the at least t... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7140284 | Device for cold cutting elongate members along a longitudinal axis A cold separation device for separating an elongate metallic member along its length. The device has a separation unit having a driven blade, support member to support the elongate member upstream and downstream of the separation unit. The device further has to feed... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7114422 | Method and device for producing a product made of strip tape, especially a medical product and/or a product containing active substances as well as fillable receptacles or pouches whose edges can be sealed A process for manufacturing a product from strip tape starting from a broad web of material includes the step of separating the web into individual strips with a vacuum roll, conveying each strip in a vacuum conveyor channel, turning the strips on their way to the c... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7073420 | Hydraulic cutting device for cutting a raw aluminum material A hydraulic cutting device for a raw aluminum material includes an input tract for transporting the raw aluminum material to a cutting seat to be cut by the incorporation of a movable cutting block and a fixed cutting block. A measuring device is provided to measure... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7032488 | Device for supporting a material web A support for a material web for use with a longitudinal cutting device for cutting the material web, includes a support shaft having an axis of rotation. At least one bearing mechanism positions the at least one support shaft, wherein the at least one bearing mecha... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7032485 | Plate member shearing apparatus, method for shearing plate member, and sheared piece of plate member A shearing apparatus (1) for shearing a plate member (2) is provided with a pair of shearing rollers (20, 20) opposed with each other. These shearing rollers (20, 20) are rotated in opposite directions in a state that the plate member ( | 04/25/2006 |
| 7028598 | Apparatus for longitudinally perforating a web of paper in a rotary printing press A rotary printing press has a folding station where the printed web is perforated both transversely and longitudinally in order to expedite subsequent folding thereof into signatures. In order to incorporate a longitudinal perforator into the folding station without... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7004056 | Cutting machine A Cutting Machine for processing leafy vegetables such as collard greens is provided. The Cutting Machine is adjustable to accommodate vegetables of varying thicknesses. An enclosure with a cover has an input opening in the cover to feed material to be cut between t... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7000513 | High pressure seed potato cutter A method of cutting seed potatoes prior to their planting is provided in which a high pressure water jet is employed to slice the potatoes into the desired sized pieces. The present invention employs a single water jet, a plurality of water jets, or a cutting tube c... | 02/21/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6979153 | Deep-grooving insert having stepped cutting edge A deep-grooving chip-forming cutting insert includes a rear mounting portion, a front cutting portion, and a pair of side walls, each side wall extending along the front and rear portions. The front cutting portion includes a front end surface, a top surface, and a ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6969438 | High-speed cutting device and method for cutting a tire reinforcement A cutting device and method in which a reinforcement is guided to a cutoff point where it is cut by a knife driven by a rotary shaft and carried along a closed path which brings the knife into cutting relationship with the reinforcement during predetermined cycles. | 11/29/2005 |
| 6932163 | Roofing saw with locking mechanism and removable bearing support A saw (10) facilitates cutting of roofing and includes a frame (12) that is mobile on a work surface. A locking mechanism (40) locks the frame (12) into a transport position. Actuating a release lever (60) allows the frame (12 | 08/23/2005 |
| 6868764 | Material cutting and feeding machine A material cutting and feeding machine for cutting and perforating a roll of paper. The material cutting and feeding machine includes a generally rectangular frame. A material feeding roller is mounted to the frame. The feeding roller is adapted to hold a roll of pa... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6857350 | Appliance and process for reducing distortion of slit metal sheet A machine for slitting metal sheet with rotating knives has roller assemblies which present rollers against the metal sheet immediately beyond the knives. The rollers bear against both faces of the slit metal sheet and straddle the slits, all to reduce distortion ca... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6841043 | Trim hold down box apparatus A trim hold down box apparatus is disclosed for assisting in the separation of trim cut from an edge of a sheet by a cutter prior to the sheet being transferred from a forming wire of a forming section to a press section of a paper making machine. The apparatus incl... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6834853 | Multi-pass deskew method and apparatus A method for aligning print media on a feedpath includes the steps of: aligning a sheet of print media using a deskew mechanism; measuring the skew of the sheet after it has been aligned; and comparing the measured skew with a specified skew, and if the measured val... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6736038 | Tape guide device for automatic roll tape cutter Disclosed is a tape guide device for an automatic roll tape cutter, the tape guide device having a roll tape loaded therein for feeding out a required length of the roll tape and automatically cutting the fed out roll tape, the tape guide device comprising: a tape g... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6725752 | Mail processing machine A machine for processing envelopes includes a receiving assembly with a tray where envelopes are received and guided towards an envelope cutting assembly. A sensor determines the width of the envelope to align on of the two longitudinal cutting members. Another sens... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6719283 | Sheet puncher, sheet finisher equipped with the sheet puncher and image forming apparatus using the sheet finisher A sheet puncher includes; a reversal conveying section having a displaceable stopping member by which a sheet is stopped at a predetermined position, and punching device; a conveying-in and conveying-out section having a conveying-in device and conveying-out device ... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6474885 | Roller system to help remove chad and trimmed media in a thermal printer For a printer system (38) having a thermal printhead or an inkjet printhead for printing images on receiver media, such as sheets of paper (14), a pick roller (18) for drawing at least on sheet of paper (14), and a cutter assembly (26) for trimming the pr... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6474205 | Device for cutting off and conveying streaks and method for cutting off and transferring a threading streak The invention relates to a device for cutting off and conveying strips, for a machine. The device is used for producing a continuous web, especially of paper or card, for a threading strip, and has a knife. Finally the device is characterized in that it h... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6264132 | Method and device for grasping part of an outer layer of a strip of material on a supply roll A pair of synchronously rotating draw-in devices are placed in contact with an outer layer of a web of material wrapped on a supply roll. The outer layer is pulled between the two draw-in devices. This pulled-in outer layer can them be conveyed to a separ... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6145421 | Method and apparatus for carrying out the annealing step of a galvannealing process A method and an apparatus for sorting out short lengths in light-section finishing lines, including a cutting device, for example, a cold shear, which has a cutting plane, wherein the cutting device is followed by a driven roller conveyor with a length st... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6128989 | Sawing apparatus A sawing apparatus comprises a base structure including bed rolls defining a horizontal bed plane for supporting a workpiece, a saw arbor carrying at least one saw for rotation about the central axis of the saw arbor, and a carriage supporting the saw arb... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6092449 | Stacker for labels and the like There is disclosed a stacker used in conjunction with a cutter, wherein the stacker has a roller assembly which is pivotally mounted to facilitate in servicing and for clearing jams. The stacker is positioned close to a cutter assembly to enable short lab... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6022452 | Apparatus fore cutting and threading a tail of a travelling web in a papermaking machine An apparatus for cutting a tail in a web sheet traveling through a nip between the queen roll and king roll of a calender includes a waterjet positioned adjacent the edge of the web upstream from the nip for directing a jet of water towards the web and th... | 02/08/2000 |
| 5934164 | Cutting system for shaping trusses A cutting system for removing at least one section from a workpiece. The cutting system includes a frame that supports a first saw assembly for cutting at one end of the workpiece and a second assembly for cutting at the other end of the workpiece. The fi... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5907986 | Laterally-floating feed-roll drive mechanism for curve-cutting machine A feed-roll mounting mechanism for a machine which curve-cuts logs into boards, wherein the feed rolls are mounted in a fashion which permits selective lateral (axial) shifting along their rotational axes.... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5899129 | Automatic trimming processing device A trimming processing device automatically processes trimmings generated when a running wide web is slit in the running direction of the web into a plurality of strips having desired widths. A trimming cutting unit movable in the transverse direction of t... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5813302 | Sawing apparatus Sawing apparatus including a support, a first saw (3) and a feed table (4) which is designed to support a log to be sawn and which is movable to and fro relative to the support in order to move the log past the first saw. The apparatus includes a second s... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5794500 | Apparatus and method for slitting thin webs Knives (28, 30, 122) are held in tangential, resilient (106, 108) or fixed (132, 136) contact with a surface of an air bar (12-20) or air table (142); so that a web (26) moving on a cushion of air (46) over the air bar or table is cleanly slit into webs (... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5690008 | Method for delivering rolled rod to a cooling bed A method for transferring rod sections from a flying shears to a cooling bed via a run-in table wherein electromagnetic coils are placed in hollow rollers at a downstream end of the run-in table to pull the leading ends of the rods onto the rollers and pr... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5685213 | Device for in-line perforation of continuous webs of material Device for in-line perforation of a continuous web of material in a gap between a pair of cylinders, the web being printed on at least one side thereof, both of the cylinders being held in side walls of a perforating unit and being driven, one of the cyli... | 11/11/1997 |
