Sheet feeding or delivering inventions 11/07

20070273078 - Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus: A sheet feeding device includes a regulation member having a sheet-regulation surface, and an air blowing mechanism. The regulation member regulates the positions of sheets that are stacked on a sheet stacking device. The air blowing mechanism raises the sheets by blowing air onto an edge of a stack of... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070273079 - Automatic paper feeding mechanism and automatic paper feeding device: An automatic paper feeding mechanism and an automatic paper feeding device incorporating the mechanism are provided that enable a stack of document sheets to be automatically fed into a shredder by at least one disk-shaped claw member in lots of a specified maximum number of sheets for shredding by the... Agent: Roger Pitt Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070273080 - Separator/feeder for sheets of paper-like medium: A pile of sheets is held by a separator/feeder and a vibrator is brought into contact with a first region of the pile with a first contact pressure. High frequency vibrations are applied from the vibrator to the sheet. A takeout mechanism is brought into contact with and pressed against... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070273081 - Recording apparatus: A recording apparatus includes a conveyance roller for conveying a recording medium to a recording area; a drive source for generating a drive force for driving the conveyance roller; a feeding roller for feeding the recording medium to the conveyance roller, the feeding roller being driven by the drive source;... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070273082 - Paper feed cassette: A paper feed cassette capable of inhibiting a paper from being warped in a direction substantially perpendicular to a paper feed direction while minimizing increase in the number of component and inhibiting the paper from being plastically deformed into a curved shape is obtained. The paper feed cassette includes a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070273083 - Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus: There is provided an apparatus provided with a tray which goes up and down with sheet stack being supported, a pickup roller which feeds the sheet on the tray a first detecting sensor which detects a object placed on the tray other than the sheets to be fed by the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070273084 - Sheet media input system: The present invention provides a removable input tray to be used in an image forming device, such as a printer. The input tray includes a front wall with a sloped surface for sheet separation, an opening in the front wall, and a retractor pivotally mounted in the opening. The retractor... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070273085 - Manual sheet-feeding device and image forming apparatus: An adjusting member is positioned in a sheet feeding opening. The adjusting member is adjusted according to the size of the paper sheet. The adjusting member does not jut out of an exterior surface of an apparatus body.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070273086 - Method for optimally loading objects into storage/transport containers: A method for stacking objects in a container including the step of measuring a thickness value of each object at a plurality of predetermined locations along a face surface of the respective object. A cumulative thickness profile is developed indicative of a plurality of stacked objects, i.e., juxtaposed along each... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070273087 - System comprising alternative processing sections for the further processing of products, longitudinal folding device and method for the synchronous operation of a folding device: A system comprises alternative processing sections for use in the further processing of products. A separator, at which a transport section is divided into several alternative transport sections for the further processing of products in processing stages, is provided. A sensor, that detects the phasing of the products, is located... Agent: Douglas R Hanscom Jones Tullar & Cooper

20070273088 - Media output system and method: A media output system is provided with the capability of sorting and separating different print jobs at the output area in an orderly manner. The media output system includes an ejecting mechanism for ejecting a wet printed medium in an output direction toward a collection tray, and a plurality of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070273089 - Aligning unit and image forming apparatus: An aligning unit is provided with a tray having a placing surface on which sheet-like transfer materials discharged with printing applied thereto are held stacked, a first restricting member movable back and forth along an advancing direction of the transfer material being discharged onto the tray while facing the front... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070273090 - Sheet conveying apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image reading apparatus: A curved conveying guiding portion which guides a sheet toward a skew correcting unit is provided on a sheet conveying direction upstream of the skew correcting unit which corrects a skew of the sheet by rotating the sheet while conveying it. By narrowing an interval in the vertical direction in... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070273091 - Skew-correcting device and sheet-processing apparatus: A sheet skew-correcting device includes a sheet-conveying rotation body for conveying a sheet, a skew-correcting member that contacts an end of the sheet conveyed by the sheet-conveying rotation body for correcting skew of the sheet, and a driving unit for moving the skew-correcting member. The skew-correcting member moved in a... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070273092 - Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus in which with a guide surface that is disposed upstream of a reference guide and is oblique so as to come close to a central portion in a width direction orthogonal to a sheet conveying direction of a re-conveying path as it extends from upstream to... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070273093 - Sheet feeder and image forming apparatus: A sheet feeder includes a feed roller that includes a feed roller shaft, the feed roller being capable of feeding a sheet, a frame that supports the feed roller shaft, a helical gear attached to the feed roller shaft, a motor that drives the feed roller shaft via the helical... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070267803 - Image forming apparatus: An air heating mechanism for heating the air which is blown from a loosening/separating nozzle toward the top sheet attracted to an attracting and conveying unit is provided. A control unit controls the air heating mechanism based on moisture content information from a sensor for detecting a moisture content of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070267802 - Method and device for separating flat consignments: In successive acceleration stages, the nominal take-off speed of the take-off elements in each acceleration stage is higher than the nominal take-off speed of the take-off elements of the respective preceding acceleration stage in the direction of transport. In the respective acceleration stage, the speed of the consignment lying on... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20070267804 - Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus: A sheet feeding device includes: an arm member that is provided with a drive shaft at a base end thereof, the arm member being configured to swingably rotate around the drive shaft; a feed roller that is disposed at a leading end of the arm member, the feed roller feeding... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070267805 - Document feeding apparatus: A document feeding apparatus includes a driven roller and a feed roller rotatable with a drive shaft, an idle roller gearing with the driven roller and a document feeder. The document feeder includes a pick-up roller having a shaft portion, a cam slipping into the shaft portion and a driven... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070267806 - Atm currency presenter gate arrangement: An ATM includes a currency note dispenser having a currency cassette, a note picker, a note transporter, and a note presenter. A cassette tambour door automatically opens during insertion of the cassette into the dispenser. The picker can pick notes through the opening. A spring loaded housing wall tab retains... Agent: Ralph E. Jocke Walker & Jocke Lpa

20070267807 - Sheet processing apparatus and sheet processing method: A sheet direction inverting apparatus has a switchback portion for inverting the conveying direction of mails and the switchback portion has a drive roller and a driven roller. The length of mails sent to nips of the two rollers in the conveying direction is detected by a sensor, and after... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Eric S. Cherry - Docketing Supervisor

20070267808 - Two-stage lock structure of automatic teller machine: The present invention relates to a two-stage lock structure of an ATM that can prevent an operator from being injured during the removal of a currency note jam. The two-stage lock structure includes: a temporary stack to be moved upward by rotating about a temporary stack hinge shaft to open... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070262511 - Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus: A sheet feeding apparatus includes a transport unit that transports a recording sheet from a storage unit, a separation unit, when stacked plural recording sheets are transported by the transport unit, separates a first recording sheet from the other recording sheets, and a push-back unit that can pivot from a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070262513 - Image forming apparatus: A loosening fan provided in an air blowing unit blows at sheets stacked on a tray to loosen the sheets. When, during a sheet feeding operation, a multi-feed detection unit detects a multi-feed condition, the loosening fan is controlled such that an air pressure that enables the sheets to be... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070262512 - Paper sheet separating and take-out device: A take-out device includes a take-out mechanism which takes out postal matters supplied to a take-out position at one end of a deposit section one by one, a separating mechanism which separates second and subsequent postal matters that are carried along with a postal matter to be taken out from... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Eric S. Cherry - Docketing Supervisor

20070262514 - Device for paper separating and guiding: A device for paper separating and guiding is provided for separating a first paper sheet from a plurality of second paper sheets, and guiding the first paper sheet into a paper-feeding apparatus. The device includes a first inclined surface and a second inclined surface adjacent to each other. The first... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070262515 - Paper grabbing assembly: A paper grabbing assembly is provided. The paper grabbing assembly includes: a base with a pivot seat disposed thereon, wherein the shaft is pivotally disposed on the pivot seat; a bearing plate, pivotally disposed on the base corresponding to the paper grabbing roller; a driven member, connected to one end... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070262516 - Device for monitoring sheet products held together in a clamp: A device according to the invention for monitoring two sheet products transported by means of a clamp of a transport device. The device has at least two sensors that are intended to generate signals on the basis of which the number of products held in the clamp can be determined.... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070262517 - Non-integer overlap feeder for machines processing printing materials: A sheet transport apparatus in a sheet processing machine has at least one driven transport belt for the transport of sheet printing materials from a first location to a second location. It being possible for the transport belt to be driven at different transport speeds. The acceptance of the sheet... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070257415 - Follower roller mounting mechanism for paper feeding apparatus: A follower roller mounting mechanism for a paper feeding apparatus is provided, which has at least one follower roller and a shaft passing through the follower roller. The follower roller mounting mechanism includes a base having a trough and a hole on a top surface thereof. The trough has a... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070257414 - Multi-sectioned paper handling tire: An improved device and method for providing increased latitude of paper handling tires includes at least three elastomeric materials mounted on a shaft and divided into three or more torus-shaped sections of varied width. Combinations of EPDM, Silicone and Isoprene are examples of materials that can be used to make... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070257416 - Rotary carton feeder: A carton feeding system for feeding a series of cartons into selected flights of a carton conveyor is disclosed. The carton feeding system generally includes a rotary feeder having a series of carton feeding assemblies rotated thereabout. The carton engaging assemblies are attached to a gearing system or mechanism that... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20070257417 - Apparatus for tilting away a part of a signature to be separated from a rack: An apparatus for tilting away a part of a sheet to be separated, in which apparatus a compressed-air supply is sufficient for operating the tilting sucker. To this end, the tilting sucker of the apparatus is assigned a vacuum generator which can be fed with compressed air and which generates... Agent: Powell Goldstein LLP

20070257418 - Image forming device and sheet transport device: This sheet multifeed determination device is capable of accurately detecting a sheet multifeed state, and the sheet multifeed determination device includes: a separating member side sheet speed detecting part which detects a transport speed of a sheet surface on the separating member side of a sheet transported to a nip... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070257419 - Leveling device for removing valleys in stacked objects: A leveling device assists in support of stackable objects having a non-uniform thickness, such as DocuCards, in a stackable tray. The stackable tray includes a pivoting tray that can be pivoted from a full sheet stack position to an empty sheet stack position. A valley removal mechanism is provided on... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20070257420 - Rotary lift table: A rotary lift table. The rotary lift table as claimed in the invention is equipped with a rotary lift table board for bearing flat objects, said rotary lift table board having a bearing surface which is pulvinated towards the top with a transverse ridge region whose longitudinal extension runs at... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070257421 - Sheet collecting device and bookbinding apparatus comprising the same: A sheet collecting device includes a tray on which sheets are placed, a sheet discharging roller for transferring sheets to the tray, an abutment regulating device for regulating a leading end and a trailing end of the sheets on the stacking tray in a conveying direction, and an aligning device... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20070257422 - Image reading apparatus: An image reading apparatus includes: a first feed path; a second feed path; a detection unit; a feed system; an image read unit; a feed path switching unit; a drive source; a drive force transmission unit; a control unit that has a first feed mode that feeds a document from... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070257423 - Registration of tab media: A printing system for printing images onto copy sheets and tab stock includes a media registration transport for transporting a media sheet along a path. The printing system further includes a sensing system having a plurality of sensors positioned in line and orthogonal to the feed direction of the sheet... Agent: Karl W. Hauber, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070257424 - Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus: A sheet feeding device having a conveyance roller to convey a sheet and a cleaning member in slide contact with the outer circumferential surface of the conveyance roller for removing foreign matter adhering to the conveyance roller, wherein the cleaning member is formed by a conductive brush, and an image... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070257425 - Scuffer apparatus and method: A retractable scuffer includes an arm with foldaway drive wheels connected thereto that are independently pivotable to ensure even drive force on a sheet. The drive wheels flips down in a counter clockwise direction as the scuffer arm is driven to an extended position by a lead screw mechanism. This... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070257426 - Diverter assembly, printing system and method: A diverter assembly includes at least one rotary member disposed along a media transport pathway adjacent a diversion point therealong. The diverter assembly also includes a rotational motion source in operative association with the at least one rotary member. A printing system includes a diverter assembly. A method of transporting... Agent: Patrick R. Roche Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070257427 - Stacker wheel: The invention relates to a stacker wheel for handling media, suitable for use in a media dispenser within an automated teller machine. The stacker wheel comprises a plurality of curved tines attached to a central hub. Each curved tine has a thickness that reduces with increased distance from the central... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20070252320 - Sheet post-process apparatus: A sheet post-process apparatus includes a waiting tray and a processing tray. The waiting tray is provided in the middle of a conveying path and makes standby sheets in the case where a post-process is required. The processing tray has a function which causes the sheets made standby on the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070252321 - Device for singulating vertically positioned flat mailings from a stack of mail: In a device for singulating vertically positioned flat mailings from a stack of mail, at least two discharge rockers are disposed on top of one another, wherein the discharge rockers are adjacent to revolving second discharge belts that are arranged in a fixed manner along the path of travel. A... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20070252322 - Device for turning continuously transported, flat lying printed products: The disclosed device includes a feed conveyor (2), on which printed products (6) are transported within certain distances from one another, a turning section (1) with a path guide arranged tangentially downstream of the feed conveyor and a delivery conveyor (4) for the turned printed products (6) that extends underneath... Agent: Alix Yale & Ristas LLP

20070252323 - High speed sheet path gating system: A print media sheets path selection system with a repositionable gate for selectably directing even rapidly sequentially moving sheets with small inter-sheet time gaps into different output paths with different gate positions. This gate is partially or entirely repositionable to an opposite gate position for providing a different output path... Agent: James J. Ralabate

20070252324 - Forward and reverse media accumulation system: A system and method for accumulation of media invention includes a series of upper and lower transport belts for feeding media seriatim along a path of travel. An accumulator pocket is positioned between the upper and lower drive belts along the path of travel. An upper and a lower accumulator... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive