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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7823494 | Sheet hole punching apparatus and sheet hole punching method A sheet hole-punching device includes a punch member having a leading end with a hole-punching blade, a base frame for movably supporting the punch member in a hole-punching direction, a drive motor for driving the punch member, and a transmission device for transmi... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7721635 | Lever handled paper punch A punch apparatus for punching holes through a paper stack. The apparatus has a rotationally attached lever handle. The lever handle has a handle end, a contact end, and a rotation axis between the handle end and the contact end. When a downward force is applied to ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7591211 | Cutting apparatus A cutting apparatus includes a motor, a gear set, a gliding block, a rotating shaft and a handling element. The gear set includes a first gear part connected to the motor and a second gear part connected to a protrusion member. The center line of the protrusion memb... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7354034 | Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus equipped with same A sheet processing apparatus is provided with a processing tray on which sheets are to be stacked and subjected to a processing, a stack tray provided in the downstream of the processing tray with respect to the sheet conveying direction on which sheets are to be st... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7328642 | Hole-punching assembly structure for hole-punching unit A hole-punching assembly comprising a positioning piece, a clamping piece, a plurality of tool holders, two balancing rods and a plurality of hole mountings. Each end of the positioning piece couples to the hole mounting through a balancing rod, the positioning piec... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7278344 | Shear mechanism for a slicing machine A slicing machine includes a machine frame having a food loaf delivery path arranged in a longitudinal direction, and a cutting assembly arranged in the delivery path. The cutting assembly has two longitudinally directed reciprocating blades facing upstream in the d... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7255032 | Puncher having replaceable knife holder A puncher having a replaceable knife holder comprises a base, a knife holder, and a wastepaper-storing case. A cover is pivotally mounted in the front of the base. The front edge of the cover is extended to the knife-holding groove such that the knife-holding groove... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7207559 | Sheet treating apparatus A sheet treating apparatus to be connected to an image forming apparatus, which has a sheet guide portion which selectively guides a sheet to a sheet stacking portion or a sheet treating portion and, in a state in which a power supply of the sheet treating apparatus... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7204179 | Shear assembly for a roll forming machine A shear assembly for a roll forming machine which forms a rain gutter. A pair of coplanar blade members separated along a vertical line are caused to first move vertically downwardly, then have their lower ends pivot outwardly and, finally, have their upper ends piv... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7194942 | Punch structure A punch includes a base with a base plate mounted thereto and a plurality of punch units are fixedly connected to the base plate by bolts. A plurality of connection holes and connection grooves are defined in the base plate, wherein the connection grooves communicat... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7182010 | Apparatus and process for producing different hole patterns in sheet-shaped print materials The invention relates to a device for producing different hole patterns in sheet-shaped print materials. An apparatus and process for producing different hole patterns in a sheet-shaped print material is provided wherein a punch in a tool roller is raised and lowere... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7165764 | Sheet processing apparatus with buffer for sheet finisher A sheet processing apparatus is provided with a processing tray on which sheets are to be stacked and subjected to a processing, a stack tray provided in the downstream of the processing tray with respect to the sheet conveying direction on which sheets are to be st... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7153315 | Catheter balloon with ultrasonic microscalpel blades The present invention provides a catheter balloon, and balloon catheter incorporating the catheter balloon, useful in medical dilation procedures. The catheter balloon includes at least one microscalpel operatively disposed on an outer surface thereof. The microscal... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7114421 | Fabric blind cut down apparatus and method of trimming fabric blinds A method of trimming the width of a blind having a head rail and a fabric panel depending therefrom, by a predetermined trim measurement, by trimming a first length from the head rail, retracting the head rail away from a first side edge of said fabric panel, trimmi... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7110698 | Original reading apparatus with openable and closable state and control based thereon An original reading apparatus with an original feeding apparatus pivotally connected thereto, including a detecting device for detecting the opened state and the closed state of the original feeding apparatus, and a controller for rendering a part or the whole of th... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7055356 | Wire rod cutting apparatus of spring manufacturing machine To easily adjust and change a locus of a leading end (an endless locus) of a cutter, a wire rod cutting apparatus of spring manufacturing machine has structure so that a slide may vertically slide via a connection rod by rotating a rotation shaft, and a cutter mount... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7036416 | Hole punch quick-change die assembly with pin strap and positioning system Embodiments of an punch machine and a quick-change die assembly are shown and described. The die assembly may be quickly installed and removed from the punch machine, without bolting or unbolting of either machine housing or the die assembly itself. The die assembly... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7028611 | Motor driven link press The present invention provides a motor driven link press which enables working with a heavy press load and also enables a working cycle time to be improved even when a motor with a relatively low output power is used and which can be properly controlled easily. A mo... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7013776 | Device for cutting optical fiber and a method for cutting optical fiber An optical fiber cutting device provided with a speed reducing part which transmits drive force by reducing the drive speed of the external drive force, a drive force transmission part which transmits the drive force from the speed reduction part to the cutting blad... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7007948 | Sheet stacking/aligning apparatus, sheet handling apparatus, and image forming apparatus In order to reduce the stack failure of a sheet bundle, there is provided a sheet stacking/aligning apparatus comprising: a stack tray for stacking sheets thereon; and a rear end aligning member for pushing and aligning the rear end of a sheet conveyed onto the stac... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7004006 | Motor driven link press The present invention provides a motor driven link press which enables working with a heavy press load and also enables a working cycle time to be improved even when a motor with a relatively low output power is used and which can be properly controlled easily. A mo... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6997092 | Cutting apparatus A photo cutting apparatus includes a support, a press, a linkage and a cutting device. The press is movably mounted on the support. The linkage is for pressing the press. The cutting device is arranged between the support and the press for separating photos develope... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6990898 | Mechanical pressing machine A mechanical pressing machine includes a slider mounted on an input shaft at a location below a cam, and a sliding block and a balance weight mounted at locations above the cam. A first cam follower rotatably carried on the slider abuts against a lower surface of th... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6983877 | Automatic hole punch An automatic hole punch is disclosed for creating holes in a sheave of sheet material. The automatic hole punch is preferably user-selectable between punching modes, such as two-hole and three-hole modes. A motor is coupled to a camshaft by a gear train. The cam sha... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6978925 | In-line automated perforation method using selective multi-hole punch A method for creating multiple punch holes during a finishing process of paper sheets and other sheet materials. A highlight of the present invention is the ability to select between at least two configurations of punch holes automatically, without manual adjustment... | 12/27/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6955109 | Electric punch An electric punch includes a plurality of pushing units mounted to the shaft which is driven by a motor. Each pushing unit includes a ring rotatably received in a pushing member and each ring has an eccentric polygonal hole through which the shaft fixedly extends. T... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6951160 | Cutting device for spring manufacturing machines A cutting device for spring manufacturing machines includes an actuator, a transmission mechanism and a sliding mechanism. The actuator includes a connecting rod with a pin hole formed therein. The sliding mechanism includes a track, a slider and a switching pin. Th... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6945166 | Die press with dual cam Disclosed is a die press with a base, at least two cam members spaced from the base, an upper platen located between the base and the two cam members to define a space for a die, the upper platen being generally parallel to the base, the upper platen also being atta... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6938542 | Embossing tool An embossing tool for embossing a sheet of material has a body formed with a fissure for receiving the sheet of material, a lever pivotably mounted about a pivot point on the body and a block positionable between the lever and the body. The block has an embossing fa... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6925921 | Punch structure A punch includes a base with a base plate mounted thereto and a plurality of punch units are fixedly connected to the base plate by bolts. Each punch unit has a bottom plate and a casing which is connected to the bottom plate so as to define a receiving slot between... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6912941 | Steel rule die with removable cutting units A steel rule die for cutting cloth and synthetic materials. The cutting die includes a primary substrate and a plurality of cutting units that are removably attachable to the substrate in such a manner that they are easy to adjust, remove and replace. The cutting un... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6895847 | Three knife trimmer A three knife trimmer has a front knife and two lateral knives. A drive device drives the front knife and the two lateral knives such that a front cut and at least one lateral cut are performed with phase displacement by the front knife and at least one of the two l... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6786125 | Cutter device for a printer A cutter device has a movable blade, a stationary blade, and a clutch mechanism having a driven gear mounted for undergoing rotation in clockwise and counterclockwise directions and a driving gear for rotationally driving the driven gear about a rotational axis. A c... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6758120 | Blind cut down apparatus An apparatus for trimming the width of blinds of the type having a headrail, and a bottom rail and blind slats, and having a support body with a headrail opening, and a bottom rail opening, and a blind slat opening the blind components being insertable into their op... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6698322 | Supported shear with reversible drive and method of operating same A reversible linear hydraulic drive system for a bidirectional supported shear having an adjustable stroke length. A method for improving the quality of the tube ends after shearing using a reversible partial orbital path is also disclosed.... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6655251 | Method and device for cutting film-like materials, for instance for automatic packaging installations A device for cutting film-like material in a shearing action by a blade and a counterblade provided with respective cutting edges. The blade has first and second ends. Movement of the blade is controlled such that the first end and the second end move alo... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6647844 | Precise strip material cutter An apparatus for precisely cutting lengths of strip material includes a supply of strip material, a feed mechanism for conveying the strip material from the supply and a reciprocating cutter mounted downstream of the feed mechanism. An adjustable stop is ... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6598508 | Optical fiber cutting device An optical fiber cutting device provided with a speed reducing part which transmits drive force by reducing the drive speed of the external drive force, a drive force transmission part which transmits the drive force from the speed reduction part to the c... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6474211 | Saw-blade driving device for a scroll saw A scroll saw includes a machine base and a table mounted pivotally on the machine base for placement of a workpiece to be sawn. The table is rotatable about a horizontal axis that extends in a longitudinal direction of the machine base. A C-shaped blade-h... | 11/05/2002 |
