Sheet feeding or delivering inventions 08/07

20070200282 - Paper feed control apparatus and image forming apparatus: In a paper feed apparatus, a CPU 211 functionally includes: an abnormality detector (211a) that detects whether or not abnormal transport of recording paper is occurring in a paper feed path via which recording paper is transported from the paper feed apparatus to a main apparatus; a cover state detector... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20070200283 - System element for the transporting and positioning of tools: A system element for the transporting and positioning of a tool on a surface of a workpiece, includes at least one suction device that generates a suction stream, and a transport device that is arranged around the suction device, and includes: at least two rollers that are rotatably supported on... Agent: Christopher Paradies, Ph.d.

20070200284 - Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus: A lifting plate provided in a sheet accommodating member is locked at a position, to which the lifting plate is downwardly turned against a pushing force of a spring, by a locking mechanism having a locking member configured to lock the lifting plate, and also having a lock releasing lever... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070200285 - Sheet tray device and image forming apparatus having the sheet tray device: A sheet tray device including (a) a first tray and (b) a second tray which is disposed on an upper side of the first tray and which includes (b-1) a support member, (b-2) a supported body pivotably supported by the support member, and (b-3) a hinge through which the supported... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070200286 - Gripper device for tufting machine: The inventive gripper device for a tufting machine comprises a gripper device (10). The gripper device contains a gripper (11) and a guide member (12) that has a cutting edge. The gripper (11) has two gripper sections that are at a distance from each other in the direction of movement... Agent: Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery

20070200287 - Layer press for compressing stacks of sheet-like articles: A layer press (10) for compressing sheet-like articles (12) arranged in a stack (14). The press has an accommodating chamber (18) for accommodating the sheet-like articles (12) and also a pressing arrangement (34) with a contact pressure lever (42) which can be pivoted about a rotary spindle (44) and on... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070200288 - Sheet feed tray and image forming apparatus: A sheet feed tray has a bottom plate on which a sheet is to be placed; two side fences for positioning opposite widthwise sides of a sheet placed on the bottom plate; and an interlocking mechanism for interlocking movements of the side fences toward and away from each other. The... Agent: Gerald E. Hespos Casella & Hespos LLP

20070194514 - Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus: An air blowing portion blows air toward an edge surface on a downstream side in a sheet feeding direction of a sheet. A presser portion presses an upper surface of the sheet at both side edge portions in a width direction of the sheet, thereby allowing, throughout an entire region... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070194513 - [individual card output control method and card output control mechanism using the method]: A card output control mechanism used in a card vending machine is disclosed to include a housing, transferring rollers for transferring cards forwards, output rollers for outputting each transferred card from the transferring rollers to a card outlet, and a dispensing wheel, which is rotated counter-clockwise at first to push... Agent: International Currency Technologies Corporation

20070194515 - Image recording apparatus: An image recording apparatus includes; a recording unit which records on sheet-like recorded media; a cassette housing provided at a lower end of an apparatus casing and which houses a paper feeding cassette which accommodates the recorded media; a bottom plate provided on the lower surface of the cassette housing... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070194516 - Sheet cassette used for a printer: A sheet cassette used for a printer has a tray, a cover, and a sheet indicator. The tray accommodates a sheet stack therein, the tray having an open upper portion. The cover covers at least a part of the open upper portion. The sheet indicator is provided in the cover... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070194517 - Paper tray unit: A paper tray unit includes a paper size sensor which is attached to a paper tray and determines a paper size in a paper width direction by detecting a position of a paper width guide. In the paper tray unit, a movable member moves in a paper feed direction accompanying... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20070194518 - Document stacker apparatus and method of stacking documents: A plunger moves from a retracted position to an extended position to engage a document which is on a receiving platform to push the document through an opening in the receiving platform and towards a stacking platform to stack the document on the stacking platform. The plunger moves from the... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20070194519 - Device for gathering printed products: A gathering device for forming a plurality of printed products includes a transfer device having a plurality of grippers. A first sheet material feeder delivers first sheet material to the plurality of grippers and a second sheet material feeder delivers second sheet material to the plurality of grippers, the second... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070194520 - Document feeder: A document feeder includes a conveying path extended from a document supplying position to a reading position, a first conveying roller pair provided upstream from the reading position and nipping and conveying the document, a second conveying roller pair provided downstream from the reading position and nipping and conveying the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070194521 - Sheet processing apparatus and sheet processing method: A sheet processing apparatus which is capable of securing a sufficient sheet bundle processing time period even with a short sheet conveying path to thereby maintain required capability of processing sheets conveyed at constant intervals. Rollers that convey sheets are controlled such that the conveyance speed of a sheet being... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070194522 - Device of handling roller for passbook: A passbook conveyance roller device comprises a conveyance roller and a pinch roller, which are arranged to be opposed to each other, to convey a passbook. The conveyance roller comprises an inner ring member connected to a drive shaft, a metallic outer ring member, and a rubber member fixed to,... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070194523 - Sheet conveying roller, sheet conveying apparatus, and image forming apparatus: A shaft of a sheet conveying roller is a pipe shaft. Both ends of the pipe shaft are formed into small-diameter portions, and a mounted portion on which a friction member is provided is formed into a large-diameter portion, which has a diameter larger than a diameter of the both... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070187886 - Method for forming stacks from upright positioned, successively lined up signatures and arrangement for realizing the method: Signatures are successively conveyed one after another by a conveying system from a printing press to a stack-forming device, in which the signatures are separated into stacks by a separating device. A remaining number of non-stacked signatures of a current production is counted with a counting device. The separating device... Agent: Venable LLP

20070182083 - Image forming apparatus and sheet feeding cassette: An image forming apparatus including: a print part; a feeding part; a first sheet feeding tray; and a second sheet feeding tray. The first sheet feeding tray stores a sheet of a first size therein, the feeding part feeding the sheet of the first size from the first sheet feeding... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070182084 - Feed unit for feeding sheets to a packing line: A feed unit for feeding sheets to a packing line, wherein a pickup device engages a withdrawal opening of a hopper, housing a stack of sheets, to withdraw one sheet from the stack and feed the sheet to the packing line; at least one supporting member is located at the... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP

20070182085 - Sheet feeding device: A sheet feeding device includes a stacking plate, a moving mechanism, a pick-up device, a detection plate, a detecting device, and a control section. The stacking plate is movably supported inside the sheet feeding device. The mechanism moves the stacking plate up and down. The pick-up device sends a top... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070182086 - Methods and devices for controlling a leading edge of a media sheet in an image forming device: The present application is directed to devices and methods for moving media sheets within an image forming device. In one embodiment, the device includes a support floor to support the media sheet. Wear members may be positioned across a width of the support floor and include a height to extend... Agent: John J. Mcardle, Jr. Lexmark International, Inc.

20070182087 - Medicine bag printing apparatus: A medicine bag printer exhibiting excellent carrying efficiency of a medicine bag in which distributing of the medicine bags for respective patients is facilitated. The medicine bag printer comprises a print unit (8) consisting of removable medicine bag cassettes (22a, 22b) each containing a plurality of medicine bags (14) and... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070182088 - Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus: Sheets fed out from a sheet feeding portion, which is brought into pressure contact with the sheets by the upward movement of a sheet stacking portion to feed out the sheets, are separated and conveyed one by one while being upwardly curved. During the sheet feeding operation, the sheet stacking... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070182089 - Sheet feeding apparatus and recording apparatus: A sheet feeding apparatus to which a cassette accommodating a sheet is detachably mountable includes supplying means for supplying the sheet from the cassette; a reference member having a reference surface for regulating a position of a lateral edge of the sheet being fed in a predetermined feeding direction by... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070182090 - Banknote handling: Means for superposing a bundle of value sheets which have been misfed from a value sheet store is disclosed. Also disclosed is a value sheet handler which includes a first value sheet store for receiving value sheets from, and dispensing value sheets to, a user and a second value sheet... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070182091 - Image forming apparatus and remaining sheet detection method therefor: An image forming apparatus is provided that detects a sheet remaining between a transfer unit and fixing unit using a loop sensor. The loop sensor is configured to detect a loop of a sheet conveyed between the transfer unit and the fixing unit. The image forming apparatus includes a control... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070182092 - Dual-speed drive mechanism: A dual-speed printer drive mechanism is disclosed. The drive mechanism includes a drive motor, a drive roller for feeding a media sheet toward and through a printing area and a drive transmission for coupling the drive roller to the drive motor for turning the drive roller with different gear reduction... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20070176347 - Separator having a blade: A feeder module for feeding envelopes into a mail handling machine, which feeder module has, from upstream to downstream relative to a direction of advance of the mail items, a tray for receiving a stack of envelopes, a device for selecting said envelopes one-by-one, a separator having an active separation... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070176348 - Method and device for stacking flat mail items: In a stacker, a mail item to be stacked is propelled against a stop wall at a stacking point by a stacking roll. A controlled driven underfloor belt and a stack support are displaced from the stack as the stack grows. The mail item to be stacked meets the preceding,... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20070176349 - Dispensing value sheet store: A store for storing value sheets such as banknotes in a stack and for dispensing the value notes from the stack. When more than a single value sheet is dispensed from the stack, the store returns all but one of the value sheets to the stack while moving the stack... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070176350 - Printer: A printer for feeding the sheet intermittently with high precision while preventing a decrease in the print rate is provided. A printer has a feed-in roller for feeding a sheet into a printing region, a feed-out roller for feeding the sheet out of the printing region, a motor for rotating... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070176351 - Image forming apparatus having supporting member that supports bottom portion of feeding tray: A feeding tray is detachably mounted on a base member and includes a bottom portion. The bottom portion has a first side that is configured to hold a recording sheet and a second side opposite the first side. An image forming unit forms an image on the recording sheet. A... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070176352 - Auto document feeder paper feed tray and image reading apparatus: In an automatic document feeder (ADF) paper feed tray, in a state where a sheet is placed, a center portion of the sheet in the width direction is supported by a first support portion, an outside portion of the sheet in the width direction is supported by a second support... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20070176353 - Apparatus for singulating flat articles: The invention relates to apparatus for singulating flat articles which are transported on-edge as a stack (12) on a controllably driven conveyor (3) with a stack support (4) to the take-away station where the frontmost article (1) is taken away horizontally in a plane perpendicular to the feeding direction. The... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20070176354 - Image forming device: An image forming device includes: a housing; and a sheet feeding cassette that stores a stack of sheets. The housing includes: a cassette accommodation portion that is provided at a lower part of the housing; an insertion slot from which the sheet feeding cassette is detachably inserted in the cassette... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070176355 - Overlap detection apparatus and overlap detection method: An overlap detection apparatus mounted to a printing press includes a sheet detection sensor for detecting whether a portion of the sheets passing a given position is a non-overlapping portion or an overlapping portion; a signal output section for outputting an overlapping signal on the basis of the detected results... Agent: Technology & Intellectual Property Strategies Group PC Dba Tips Group

20070176356 - Rules engine for mailpiece content modification: A method for introducing instructions/commands within or acting on the content material of a mail run data file. The method comprises the steps producing an object-oriented data file of the mailpiece content material and displaying a visual image thereof to the user. The visual image displayed spatially corresponds to the... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. Intellectual Property & Technology Law Department

20070176357 - Sheet medium adjustment apparatus and image formation system capable of sorting sheet media: A sheet medium adjustment apparatus, e.g., in an image forming system, includes: an ejector to eject a conveyed sheet; a stacking device to stack each sheet ejected from the sheet ejector into a stack on a tray; a moving device to shift the stacking device in a movement direction perpendicular... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070176358 - Nestable and stackable document storage trays: Document storage trays are disclosed that may be stacked in at least two different configurations including a “nesting” stack where an upper tray fits within the storage area of a lower tray and, in turn, is also able to receive a tray within its own storage area so that multiple... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP