Sheet feeding or delivering inventions 09/07

20070222136 - Medium feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus: A medium feeding apparatus includes a main body, and a medium placing unit at least a part of which can be housed in the main body. The medium placing unit includes a first placing unit held by the main body in such a manner that the first placing unit is... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070222138 - Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus: The present invention relates to a sheet feeding device includes a sheet tray 2 to place sheets thereon, a nozzle 9 which blows air onto the sheets supported by the sheet tray 2, a conveyance belt 10 to adsorb and convey a sheet floated by blowing air by the nozzle... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070222135 - Device for processing and/or transporting flat mail items: A device for processing and for transporting flat mail items such as documents and/or letters inserted into envelopes, samples, cards, etc., includes a transport route, formed by transport rolls (5, 6, 7) of a transport mechanism (3), one end of this route being configured to load a separation unit (9)... Agent: Friedrich Kueffner

20070222137 - Device and method for taking out sheets: A sheet takeout device includes a takeout belt brought into contact with a sheet set in a takeout position to generate negative pressure to adsorb the sheet, and traveled in a direction of an arrow T, and a separation roller which separates second and following sheets associatively taken out with... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070222139 - sheet-feed separation mechanism, sheet feeding device, image reading device, and image forming apparatus: A sheet feeding device that draws out a sheet from a pile of sheets, including: a sheet tray on which the pile of sheets is placed; a sheet feeding roller whose peripheral surface is pressed to abut on a top surface of an uppermost sheet in the pile of the... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070222140 - Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus: A sheet feeding apparatus has: a tray on which sheets to be fed are stacked; a sheet feeding portion which separates and feeds the sheets stacked on the tray one by one; and a sensor which discriminates a type of sheet. In a state in which one sheet of the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070222141 - Image forming apparatus with paper feed direction specifying means: There are provided an image forming apparatus, an image input/output apparatus, a paper feed control method, a memory medium, and a program, in which lengths of one side of sheets of image formed paper can be aligned, and even in case of outputting the image formed paper in which different... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070222142 - Registration system for sheet fed processing machines: The invention relates to a registration system for sheet fed processing machines that reduces or eliminates the need to calibrate the register and/or timing dials of such a machine. The system uses known measurements and the elapsed time between electrically generated pulses to determine the relative position of processing cylinders... Agent: John H. Thomas, P.C.

20070222143 - Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus: A holding member is rotatably axially supported to the apparatus main body, holds the sheet feeding unit to a rotational edge, and moves the sheet feeding unit to one of a sheet feeding position and a standby position and a gear train. By transferring the rotation of the opening/closing operation... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070222144 - Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus: Positioning in the width direction of a sheet is performed by a skew correcting unit which is provided on a re-conveying path for reversing the sheet and conveying it again to an image forming unit and which has a reference surface that is come into contact with a side edge... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070216083 - Document conveying apparatus: A document conveying apparatus (1) includes a conveying unit (30) inside a document feeding section (10), and the conveying unit (30) includes two fans (34) for cooling the inside of the document conveying apparatus (1). The fans (34) are arranged to pass air from upstream to downstream with respect to... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20070216081 - Cash dispensing automated banking machine with note unstacking and validation: An automated banking machine (10) includes a cash dispenser (220). A machine user interface (15) includes a card reader (16), receipt printer opening (30), and cash dispensing opening (38). A cash acceptor mechanism (80) includes a chute (82) which enables a user to input a stack of currency notes (84)... Agent: Ralph E. Jocke Walker & Jocke Lpa

20070216082 - Apparatus for receiving and conveying sheet-like products: An apparatus for receiving and conveying sheet-like products (28), in particular printed products. A plurality of grippers (12) which are moved along a gripper movement path and a plurality of separating elements (14), which are separate from the grippers, are moved along a separating element movement path. The separating elements... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070216085 - Switchback mechanism, switchback apparatus, and switchback method: A switchback mechanism for reversing a mail item conveying direction has a switchback roller which holds the mail item in a nip and rotates in both forward and backward directions. When there is a remaining mail item deviated from the nip of the switchback roller and remaining in the switchback... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070216084 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus comprises a paper feeder controller, a scanner and a printing controller. The paper feeder controller executes first paper and second paper feeding processes. The scanner executes a manuscript scanning process for optically scanning a manuscript and a graphics editing process for editing scanned image, transmits a... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070216086 - Device for transferring print products, conveyed while suspended from spaced-apart clamps on a circulating conveying element: A device for transferring print products comprises a circulating conveying element that includes clamps. A conveyor moves approximately in the same direction and synchronously below the conveying element, which includes grippers. A guide arrangement is provided in a transfer segment where the print products are transferred from the circulating conveying... Agent: Venable LLP

20070216087 - Paper sheet conveyance apparatus and image forming apparatus: There is described a paper sheet conveyance apparatus, which makes it possible to surely separate the overlapping paper sheets from each other irrespective of a kind of paper. The apparatus includes: a thickness detecting section to detect a thickness of a paper sheet, currently conveyed in the conveyance path; a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070216088 - Method and apparatus for assuring proper media feeding: This invention relates to an apparatus for assuring media feeding, comprising: an impression drum having a media gripper; an input feed unit located substantially adjacent to the impression drum for feeding a sheet of media; and a servo motor operatively connected to the input feed unit such that a change... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070216089 - Stacker position changer, recording apparatus or liquid ejecting apparatus incorporating the same: A recording section includes a recording head operable to record information on a first medium and a second medium. A first stacker has a first face and a second face, and is movable between a first position and a second position. A stacker position changer is operable to move the... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070210505 - Paper fetching device using a suction disc for adhering to paper: In an image system, a suction disc is used for adhering to paper to lift up the paper. A drawing device pulls a perimeter of a flexible and deformable suction disc to deform the suction disc, and the pulling force is released when the suction disc contacts the paper, resulting... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070210506 - Paper sheet separation and transfer apparatus: A paper sheet separation and transfer apparatus has a take-out roller which takes out stacked paper sheets onto a transfer path, a first separation unit, and a second separation unit. When the front end of a first paper sheet in the transfer direction reaches a nip of the second separation... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070210507 - Sheet feeder image forming device: A sheet feeder including (1) a sheet storing unit in which a plurality of sheets are stacked, (2) a sheet feed roller that abuts an uppermost one of the sheets stacked in the sheet storing unit and conveys the sheets in a predetermined conveying direction, (3) a friction member provided... Agent: Eugene Ledonne, Esq. Reed Smith LLP

20070210508 - Apparatus for depositing a sheet on a stack: The present invention relates to an apparatus for depositing a sheet on a stack (11), preferably for a delivery unit of a printing machine, which said apparatus comprises at least one stacking device which can be driven so as to rotate about an axis of rotation in order to grasp... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20070210509 - Automatically variably shaped sheet stacking tray surface for printed sheets: A system and method of stacking printed sheets with sheet curl stacking problems in an automatically variable configuration stacking system having a spaced array of repositionable initial sheet supporting surfaces providing a generally planar initial stack supporting configuration on which a limited amount of sheets initially stack, and then, in... Agent: James J. Ralabate

20070210510 - Sheet stacking-aligning apparatus, sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus: The sheet stacking-aligning apparatus or the sheet processing apparatus includes a substantially horizontal stacking tray, a rear end aligning unit for aligning a rear end of a sheet bundle on the stacking tray, and a control unit for controlling an operation of the rear end aligning unit for aligning the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070210511 - Sheet buffer device with rotating disk: A paper or sheet buffering system is provided which avoids having to shut down the entire system when the paper path or transport is overloaded. A rotating disk having an attached collection and dispensing finger(s) is used to pull excess sheets off the transport and hold them until it is... Agent: James J. Ralabate

20070210512 - Sheet conveying device and image scanning apparatus: A pair of discharge rollers is provided at a position most downstream in a conveying direction of a sheet conveying path defined by guide surfaces. The discharge rollers discharge a sheet from the sheet conveying path. A discharge chute portion, including upper and lower discharge guides, guides the discharged sheet... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070205551 - Separation and extraction device: In a device that separates a sheet and extracts the sheet from a stack of the sheets, the stack of sheets is placed on a sheet feeding unit. A vibrator is contact with the top surface of the stack at a spot to vibrate the sheets at a high frequency.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070205552 - Sheet transport path switching mechanism: A sheet transport path switching mechanism includes a movable guide to be moved rotatably about a support shaft parallel to the width direction of a transport path so as to selectively take either a main posture where the movable guide directs a sheet to the downstream side of a main... Agent: Casella & Hespos