Sheet feeding or delivering inventions 04/08

20080093789 - Image forming apparatus having pick-up roller cover: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit to form an image on a printable medium; a casing to accommodate the image forming unit; a feeding cassette coupled to the casing and arranged so as to move between a feeding position where the feeding cassette is separated from the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080093790 - Drum for conveying a sheet: A drum for conveying a sheet has a cohesive sheet-guiding surface provided at little effort or cost and includes a drum body, a jacket forming a circumferential surface and a device for fixing the jacket onto the drum body. The jacket is located above a gap formed in the drum... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080093791 - Unit and a method for feeding labels in a packer machine for tobacco products: A label feeder unit associated with a machine for packing tobacco products holds a stack of labels placed in a channel presenting an infeed end, and an outfeed end from which the labels are released to a take-up station, then picked up singly and transferred to a further unit of... Agent: Harbin King & Klima

20080093792 - Sheet feeding unit and image forming apparatus having the same: A sheet feeding unit and an image forming apparatus having the same. The image forming apparatus includes a body and the sheet feeding unit to supply sheets into the body. The sheet feeding unit includes a sheet feeding cassette coupled to the body, a sheet lifting plate positioned in the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080093793 - Apparatus for torning over piles of items: An apparatus for turning over piles of items, comprising a forming station (1), adapted for defining the above mentioned piles of items (20), each consisting of one or more items (10), and for pulling the piles towards a relevant outlet section according to a feeding direction (A); conveying means (2),... Agent: William J. Sapone Coleman Sudol Sapone P.C.

20080093794 - Bottom placement sheet accumulator device and method for an inserter system: An improved apparatus and method for accumulating sheets having a horizontal transport deck. Inserts are fed from an insert feeder positioned above the deck. Driven accumulator nip rollers are positioned to receive accumulations of sheets transported on the horizontal deck, and they are also positioned close enough to the insert... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080093795 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus, which can efficiently align a paper supplied to a printing unit of a main body from a paper feeding unit that is removably mounted to the main body, includes a paper aligning unit, integrally provided with a paper container of the paper feeding unit, to align... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080088076 - Systems and methods for maintaining the density of grouped sheet articles: Systems and methods are provided for maintaining density and positioning of a grouped sheet articles, such as for feeding of sheet articles from or into the group. One or more pneumatic sensing systems can be used to monitor and control pressure of sheet articles within the group. Dynamic adjustment can... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080088077 - Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus: An upper limit detection sensor detects that a top face position of a sheet stack on a tray reaches an upper limit position which enables feeding of sheets one by one by a sheet feeding portion and a lower limit detection sensor detects that the top face position of the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080088078 - Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus: The position of a sheet accommodated in a sheet storage portion is restricted by a restricting member provided movably on a sheet storage portion. This restricting member has a holding portion which is movable freely and is attached detachably to the sheet storage portion so as to hold the restricting... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080088079 - Recording medium feeding apparatus, recording apparatus, liquid ejecting apparatus: [Means for Solution] A front feeding device 3 is configured so that a first feeding mode in which switching operation of separating means 25 from a second state to a first state is started at the same time as when passage of the back end of a recording medium previously... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080088080 - Paper feeder: A paper feeder includes a base, a roller adjacent to the base, a holder for holding a paper, and a torsional element. The holder has a pivot end and a movable end, wherein the pivot end is pivoted to the base. The torsional element is disposed at a position where... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080088081 - Sheet joggling device, and sheet delivery, sheet-fed printing press and sheet joggling method employed therewith: A sheet joggling device is provided to increase the number of times a sheet is pressed and to improve sheet joggling functions of stacked sheets. A width direction sheet joggling device disposed on both sides of the advancing direction of discharged sheets, and which aligns positions in the width direction... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20080088082 - Sheet accumulation apparatus and image formation apparatus including the apparatus: A sheet accumulation apparatus includes a tray moving device elevatably provided at an apparatus frame and having a fork member; a tray device detachably attached to the fork member; a driving device for elevating the tray moving device; and a carrier device having a hand truck frame with a fork... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20080088083 - Apparatuses and methods for registering sheet articles: Apparatuses and methods are provided for improving handling of sheet articles during processing within sheet processing machines, particularly for apparatuses and methods for registering sheet articles within a sheet or mail processing machine. A registration apparatus can be provided that aligns sheet articles, such as envelopes, by using negative pressure... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080088084 - Double feed detecting device and method of controlling the double feed detecting device: Provided is a double feed detecting device, including: a first detecting unit which is disposed in a conveyance path of a sheet member, and detects overlapping of the sheet members which pass along the conveyance path; a second detecting unit having a light emitting unit and a light receiving unit... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080084021 - Paper-feeding device and image forming apparatus: A paper-feeding device for use in an image forming apparatus that includes a tray on which a recording sheet is configured to be stacked, the tray having an upper surface and a lower surface both being exposed to outside. Two side fences that are movably attached to the upper surface... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080084022 - Bill stacker detection apparatus: A bill stacker detection apparatus comprises a base body, a stacker and a sensor. The sensor has a light emitting element and a light receiving element. When the stacker is moved to a position near the sensor, apertures of a protruding structure on the stacker is covered. The light receiving... Agent: Law Offices Of Lai And Associates, P.c.

20080084023 - Gripper control system using a servo driven cam and a method for use thereof: A gripper system for controlling the loading and unloading of sheets on a cylindrical sheet guide. The gripper system comprises one or more grippers, which are positioned at an outer edge of the cylindrical sheet guide. Each gripper is coupled to a cam follower. The gripper system further comprises a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080079210 - Automatic self-clearing feature for paper jams in marking machines: This is a system that enables a marking system to automatically clear itself of paper jams even when the marking system is unattended. The paper transport is enabled to move forward and backward, and when a jam occurs it will automatically move backward or in reverse direction until the jam... Agent: James J. Ralabate

20080079211 - Sheet processing apparatus and sheet processing: According to the present invention, when a jam occurs in any of temporary accumulation sections or temporary accumulating doors are opened or closed, even if non-established and established notes are mixedly accumulated in the temporary accumulation sections, an operator can collectively recount these notes without considering the mixture.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080079212 - Object loading apparatus having pressing cam for controlling inclination of object loading plate and image processing apparatus having the object loading apparatus implemented therein: The present invention provides an object loading apparatus, including: an elastic component positioned at a bottom plate of an object feeding device; a first pivot positioned at a side plate of the object feeding device; an object loading plate rotatably coupled to the first pivot for loading objects, wherein the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080079213 - Box blank feeder for narrow spacing: A feeder device for supplying a container blank to an apparatus is provided. The feeder device includes a loader adapted to supply at least one blank and a singulation mechanism. The singulation mechanism is operatively positioned relative to the loader for separating the at least one blank from the loader.... Agent: Weyerhaeuser Company Intellectual Property Dept., Ch 1j27

20080079214 - Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus: A sheet feeding apparatus including: a regulating member movable so as to regulate a position of a sheet in a sheet regulated position corresponding to the sheet to be contained in a cassette main body; a holding mechanism for holding the regulating member; and an operating portion disposed at the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080079215 - Sheet feeder and process of feeding sheet: A sheet feeder including: (a) a pair of feed rollers operable to have a plurality of successive rotational motions, so as to be rotated by a predetermined amount in each one of the successive rotational motions, for thereby causing a sheet nipped between the pair of feed rollers, to be... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080079216 - Sheet feeder and image forming apparatus: A sheet feeder is provided with a sheet accommodating portion, an elevating plate and an inclining mechanism. The sheet accommodating portion includes a bottom plate and a plurality of side plates provided perpendicular to the bottom plate, and can accommodate a plurality of sheets. The sheets accommodated in the sheet... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080079217 - Apparatus for handling sheet-like products: An apparatus for handling sheet-like products having: a truck glidable on rails, a supporting structure for an assembly for gripping a sheet, the supporting structure performing a translational motion on the truck through a lateral translational motion with respect to the direction of advancement of the truck, a grip assembly... Agent: Modiano & Associati