Sheet feeding or delivering inventions 05/07

20070120313 - Image forming system and paper feeder thereof: A first signal line is provided for transmitting to each of a plurality of paper feeders an output signal from a printing paper sensor provided in the uppermost paper feeder among the plurality thereof. In response to an output signal that has been transmitted via the first signal line, a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070120314 - Image forming device: An image forming device is provided with a device main body, a first cassette, a second cassette that is capable of moving between a first position and a second position with respect to the device main body, a transportation device, and a printing device. The transportation device is capable of... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070120315 - Sheet separating system, sheet handling system, method for the frictional separation and feeding of sheets: A paper separating system, based on the frictional separation and feeding of the uppermost sheet (13) from a stack (14) of sheets of paper and flat substrates over a hurdle (8) using a separating and feeding head (1) and a deflection mechanism (35) for the head (1), the head (1)... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20070120317 - Sheet cassette, sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus: A sheet cassette includes a tray main body part, and a tray expansion/contraction part supported by the tray main body part and configured to slide relative to the tray main body part to a cassette expanded position where the sheet cassette is in an expanded state and a cassette contracted... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070120316 - Sheet-supply apparatus, and image recording apparatus including sheet-supply apparatus: A sheet-supply apparatus, including a sheet accommodating portion which includes a support portion that supports, on a support surface thereof, a plurality of cut sheets such that the cut sheets are stacked on each other; a sheet-supply roller which is adapted to supply the cut sheets accommodated in the sheet... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070120318 - Automatically variably tilting supporting tray for non-uniform-thickness print media: A system and method of fully supporting, substantially planarly, a variable thickness stack of non-uniform thickness print media sheets on a single integral and substantially planer pivotal supporting tray which is automatically variably tilted in response to the height of the stack by being mounted on, and moved by, an... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070120319 - Paper feeding cassette: A paper feeding cassette includes a cassette body detachably mounted to an image forming apparatus, and an alignment unit disposed on an inner surface of the cassette body to pressurize a plurality of stacked sheets of recording medium from one side thereof when the cassette body is mounted in the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070114711 - Apparatus for feeding sheets of media from a stack: An apparatus for feeding porous sheets of media from a stack of such sheets includes a support structure for supporting the stack. A gas conduit is mounted on the support structure and has an outlet that is oriented so that, when the stack is positioned on the support structure, the... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070114712 - Automatic paper feeder: An arrangement is provided such that a pad pressing means for pressing a separation pad against a pick roller is formed in a reverse U-shape, and a pressing spring for pressing the pad pressing means to press the separation pad against the pick roller is provided on a central portion... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070114713 - Image forming apparatus and sheet feeding cassette: An image forming apparatus includes: a main body for performing an image forming operation, and a sheet feeding cassette detachably mounted in the main body. The sheet feeding cassette includes: a pair of cursors spaced apart a predetermined distance and facing each other for regulating a size of a recording... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070114714 - Media stacker, liquid ejecting apparatus, and recording device: A media stacker which can be inserted into a main body of a liquid ejecting apparatus and stack a discharged recording medium moves downward in an inclined direction to be located below a liquid ejecting portion and a discharge portion when the media stacker is being inserted and moves upward... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070114715 - Shaping and laying a tire belt ply: Method of laying a tire belt ply on a form, using one or two transporters each having gripping assemblies, for gripping and moving the gripping sectors situated at the two longitudinal ends of a belt ply. The front and rear edges are aligned, after having determined the angular geometry of... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070114716 - Sheet feeding apparatus: A rotatable pick roller and a rotatable separating roller are formed integrally with a roller case. A retard roller opposes the separating roller and rotates in a direction opposite to that of the separating roller. A lift detecting sensor is mounted on the roller case. When a first sheet and... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070114717 - Paper sheet handling apparatus: It is intended to make possible informing, at the time of maintenance for regular inspection or the like, personnel in charge of any part where a trouble is predictable to enable them to perform inspection or maintenance before the trouble occurs and thereby to reduce the duration the failure of... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070114718 - Method and apparatus for depositing sheet of paper onto a stack: Depositing a sheet of paper onto a stack of sheets of paper, preferably for use in a printing press, where the sheet to be deposited is grasped by at least one rotationally drivable sheet conveyor member with the front edge of the sheet fed into a receptacle, and the sheet's... Agent: Patent Legal Staff

20070108691 - Accumulation system for processing media items of various sizes and types: An accumulator system and method for collating a plurality of media items wherein the media items enter in seriatim at an media item entry point and become at least partially overlapped with each other at a media item exit point. A media item transport path connects the media item entry... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070108692 - Sheet feeder: A sheet feeder is characterized by comprising a suction carrying means, an oblique carrying means, a handling member, a detecting means located downstream of the handling member and for detecting a sheet passing through the handling member, and a retracting mechanism for retracting the handling member from the sheet passing... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070108693 - De-stacking apparatus and method: An apparatus for de-stacking flexible, planar products has a support for supporting a product stack in a de-stacking position adjacent a product exit and a picking head movably mounted above the de-stacking position for movement up and down between an upper position and a lower position. The picking head is... Agent: Gordon & Rees LLP

20070108694 - Printer with a picker assembly: A printer includes a support structure. A printing assembly is mounted on the support structure. The printing assembly includes a feed mechanism mounted on the support structure for feeding sheets of media along a feed path. At least one printhead is mounted on the support structure, downstream of the feed... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070108695 - Media feed mechanism for feeding sheets of porous media from a stack: A media feed mechanism for feeding sheets of porous media from a stack of such sheets includesa support structure for supporting the stack in an aligned condition. A pick up device is arranged on the support structure. The pick up device includes a gas supply. A gas conduit is in... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070108696 - Sheet feeder capable of reducing multi feed: A sheet feeder reducing multi feed, which may include a feed roller to feed a plurality of sheets, a sole plate to press stacked sheets against the feed roller moving between an evacuation position and a pressing feed roller position, a separation pad member provided downstream from the sole plate... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070108697 - Sheet-like medium alignment apparatus: To ensure that the leading edge of the sheet ejected onto a tray 12 does not push and move loaded sheets in advance, loaded sheets are retained at position (II) by a retaining roller. A roller (returning roller in this case) 121 for applying external force to a sheet S... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070108698 - Sheet-like medium alignment apparatus: To ensure that the leading edge of the sheet ejected onto a tray 12 does not push and move loaded sheets in advance, loaded sheets are retained at position (II) by a retaining roller. A roller (returning roller in this case) 121 for applying external force to a sheet S... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070108699 - Sheet registering device: A sheet processing device wherein sheets are deposited in a staggered configuration relative to one another, which includes a paper path, a first and second sheet edge guide fitted substantially parallel to one another in the feed-through direction, and a transportation device arranged to convey a sheet through the paper... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070102863 - Automated banking machine: An automated banking machine (10) includes a user interface (12) including an opening (20). Users of the machine deliver individual sheets and stacks of sheets to and from the machine through the opening. Stacks of sheets may include sheets such as notes, checks or other documents. Stacks input to the... Agent: Ralph E. Jocke Walker & Jocke Lpa

20070102862 - Cash dispenser: The invention relates to a cash dispenser comprising a plurality of banknote compartments (20), disposed one after the other in a vertical position in a horizontal row, for receiving banknotes to be dispensed, wherein the banknote compartments (20) are associated with withdrawal and separation devices (26). The cash dispenser also... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20070102864 - Paper sheet take-out apparatus: A paper take-out apparatus has a plurality of take-out rollers, which contact mail supplied to the take-out position, and rotate. The take-out rollers have a substantially cylindrical core member, and a substantially cylindrical roller part wound on the outside of the core member. The roller part is formed by closely... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070102865 - Shingle mode media item feed arrangement: A method and an arrangement for feeding shingled media item includes a tray for supporting a stack of shingled media items. The tray has an exit area and each of the media items has a bottom edge. A feeder separates and feeds media items from the shingled stack of media... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070102866 - Feeder for objects to be conveyed, and image recording device having same: A feeder for an object to be conveyed has an arm having a base end and a distal end and swingable about the base end; a pair of support shafts rotatably provided on both sides of the distal end of the arm; a pair of rotary feeding members for feeding... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070102867 - Media feeding apparatus: A media feeding assembly capable of feeding media from a media source including a rotatable connecting shaft and a pick roller. Driving of the shaft may provide a driving and a normal force on the pick roller towards a media source.... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070102868 - Sheet feeding apparatus capable of setting a sheet tray with reduced force: A sheet feeding apparatus, having detachable and attachable sheet trays, a linkage mechanism between the sheet feeding apparatus and the sheet tray, and that can attach the sheet tray to the sheet feeding apparatus with a reduced force.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070102869 - Shingle media item feed tray with spring loaded self locking sled: A media item feed tray with an exit area for media items includes a sled moveable toward and away from the feed tray exit area. A biasing surface is mounted to the tray and extends away from the feed tray exit area. A spring member is mounted on the moveable... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070102870 - Sheet curl correction method and feeder apparatus: A pneumatic sheet feeder is selectively actuable to acquire a sheet from a stack and transport the sheet towards a take-away nip. The feeder includes a feedhead having an acquisition surface substantially aligned with the take-away nip. A sensing apparatus detects three separate distances between the stack and the acquisition... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070102871 - Exit shaft dampening device to improve print quality: The present invention includes a damping device for a media feed mechanism for a peripheral device having a media feedpath having a feed shaft and a downstream exit shaft. In one form a damping hub is mounted on said exit shaft, a resilient biasing member extending between the damping hub... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070102872 - Automatic document sacanner with upright visible document images: Digital scanning of document sheets with a substantially vertical scanning system is provided by sequentially feeding the uppermost document from an upright input loading and image viewing area to a scanning head, and then to an output, along a sheet feeding path which is substantially linear, planar and vertical, but... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070102873 - Apparatus for varying pressure roll nip force: An apparatus for varying nip pressure in a media feedpath including a feed roller and a pressure roller defining a feed nip there between includes a rotatable cam having a preselected eccentric path when rotated, a first pivotable linkage pivotally engaging the rotatable cam, a second pivotable linkage, a biasing... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070102874 - Paper processing device, paper processing method and image forming apparatus: A paper processing device includes a processing unit, a paper ejection roller, a sorting mechanism, a paper overlapping mechanism, and a control unit. The processing unit performs predetermined processing upon sheets of paper being conveyed one at a time along a paper conveyance direction. The roller discharges the sheets in... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070102875 - Assignment of application for patent: The invention relates to a device for conveying sheetlike articles, in particular printed sheets, by which conveyed sheetlike articles may optionally be fed to various conveying routes, various delivery stacks being provided in particular at the end of the conveying routes. The device includes at least one conveying module (1,... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20070096382 - Sheet convey apparatus: A sheet convey apparatus includes first and second conveyor belts, an air pipe, and a rotary body. The first conveyor belt conveys a plurality of sheets. The second conveyor belt is provided downstream of the first conveyor belt in a sheet convey direction and has a convey speed lower than... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070096383 - Rubber roller, and paper sheet take-out apparatus including the rubber roller: A take-out roller which rotates and contacts a paper sheet supplied to a take-out position has an outer layer to contact the paper sheet and an inner layer provided inside the outer layer. The outer layer is made of relatively hard rubber material with a sufficient coefficient of kinetic friction.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070096384 - Automatic document feeder: A document feeder for multifunction printers or scanners offers high reliability and speedy paper-picking, -separating and -feeding functions. It comprises a picking module, a separating module and a feeding module. Since the three modules take turns to deliver paper, the paper can be picked at a lower speed, separated at... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070096385 - Friction retard sheet feeder: A retard feeder adapted to separate and advance media sheets comprising a media sheet advancing device including a drive roll and a retard roll. The drive roll and the retard roll include a feed nip therebetween for driving the media sheets at a velocity. A first drive system is provided... Agent: Karl W. Hauber, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070096386 - Printer with sheet returning mechanism: A printer has a head for printing on a sheet, a storage for storing a plurality of sheets in a stacked condition; and a transfer for sending a piece of sheet from the storage to the head sequentially and returning the piece of sheet from the head to the storage.... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070096387 - Method for controlling stack-advancing in a reproduction apparatus: The present invention relates to a method for providing paper stack level calibration in a reproduction apparatus. According to various aspects of the invention, methods are provided for continuous feeding with a transition from one supply to another, and leaving a controlled number of sheets in the prior supply.... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20070096388 - Method and device for combining auxiliary and main stacks in a delivery or feeder of a machine for processing printing materials and sheet-fed offset printing press having the device: A method and a device combine auxiliary and main stacks in a delivery or feeder of a machine for processing printing materials. The device includes a rake that can be moved in and out between the main and auxiliary stacks by a motor drive. A control computer controls the motor... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070096389 - Device for adapting a stop to a sheet stack edge in a sheet processing machine, in particular a printing press: A device for setting a stop for a sheet stack in a sheet processing machine includes a provision for the stop to be set obliquely against an oblique stack edge.... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070096390 - Device for stacking sheets for printing machine: A device for stacking sheets for a printing machine, including at least a sheet deflection device which can be driven in rotation, and which is provided for receiving or grabbing a front edge of a sheet and for stacking the sheet after it has moved through a rotation path, and... Agent: Patent Legal Staff

20070096391 - Sheet ejecting: Various embodiments and methods are disclosed for sheet ejecting.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company