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Sheet feeding or delivering June invention type 06/09

20090160118 - Item transport with singulation detection: A method of transporting items includes receiving a group of one or more items in a singulation device, implementing a singulation routine, measuring a speed of a first portion of the group, measuring a speed of a second portion of the group, and comparing the speed of the first portion... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc.

20090160117 - Printing apparatus and method for controlling the same: Printing processing is performed on a sheet having a characteristic value within a range of a characteristic value of a sheet which is defined usable in the printing processing in accordance with a specific print job. Specifically, in a case where a test page print job is input, a CPU... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090160119 - Sheet feeding apparatus: A sheet feeding apparatus capable of obtaining a sufficient conveying force for pulling back double-fed overlapping sheets to a stacking tray side. A sheet feeding member feeds sheets incoming from a stacking tray which stacks the sheets into a conveying pass. A separating member separates the sheets fed to the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090160120 - Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus: A sheet feeding device to feed a sheet in a sheet feeding path is provided. The sheet feeding device includes a plurality of feeding rollers to feed a sheet in the sheet feeding path, and a dust remover unit to remove dust adhered onto a surface of the sheet. The... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090160121 - Cam driven insert gripper: An apparatus includes a frame, a rotatable first shaft, wherein the first shaft includes a first cam, a rotatable second shaft, an item gripper connected to the second shaft by a connection including a link and an offset shaft rotatably connected to the link, and a linkage. The link is... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc.

20090160122 - Methods of moving a media sheet in a scanning device: The present application is directed to embodiments for moving a media sheet within a scanning device. The methods include moving the media sheet through a separation mechanism that prevents multiple media sheets from being moved simultaneously along the media path. Further, a buckle is formed in the sheet at a... Agent: John J. Mcardle, Jr. Lexmark International, Inc.

20090160123 - Output tray nudging mechanism: A printing device includes a recessed output tray having a nudging mechanism including a nudger component that engages a stack of paper such that when the nudger moves, the stack will move with it and an actuating mechanism to move the nudger, thereby moving the stack of papers. The nudger... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP

20090160124 - Sheet stacking/aligning apparatus, sheet handling apparatus, and image forming apparatus: In order to reduce the stack failure of a sheet bundle, there is provided a sheet stacking/aligning apparatus comprising: a stack tray for stacking sheets thereon; and a rear end aligning member for pushing and aligning the rear end of a sheet conveyed onto the stack tray. The rear end... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090160125 - Sheet conveyance apparatus and image forming apparatus including the same: A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a reference surface extending along a sheet conveyance direction and configured to regulate the position of a side edge of a sheet to be conveyed, a skew conveyance mechanism configured to convey the sheet obliquely so that the side edge of the sheet collides against... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090160126 - Printing apparatus and printing medium feeding method: To achieve a high-speed feeder, improvement of a rotational rate is required similarly in a feed motor and a conveyance motor, resulting in high costs. Moreover, in simultaneous control of paper feed and discharge, improvement of a conveyance rate leads to a high discharge rate to deteriorate alignment of discharged... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090160127 - Cash transaction machine: Provided is a cash transaction machine including: a medium storage portion; a medium transfer module transferring a paper medium in a sheet unit from the medium storage portion; a temporary stack portion including an upwardly and downwardly movable supporter being provided to be adjacent to an outlet of the medium... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090152790 - Method and device for personalizing a multiplicity of security documents: The invention relates to a method for personalizing a large number of security documents, documents of value or smart cards within a personalization installation which comprises a plurality of processing stations arranged one behind the other along a longitudinal axis of the personalization installation for carrying out individual personalization steps,... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20090152791 - Recording medium conveying device, image forming apparatus and cartridge: A first guide member includes a concave-shaped guide surface. A recording medium such as a sheet fed by register rollers takes a curved position while being fed in a sheet feeding direction such that the leading edge of the sheet slides on the guide surface. A space is defined between... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090152793 - Paper feeding device: [Solving Means] A paper feeding device 3 that feeds a sheet of a paper roll 2a (2b) to a printing device 4, includes two side plates 8b vertically arranged along both sides of the paper roll 2a (2b), in which the side plates 8b are provided with a plurality of... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq Adams & Wilks

20090152794 - Recording apparatus: A recording apparatus includes guide rails that each control the posture of a carriage at an arbitrary recording position by being in contact with the carriage. The guide rails are disposed on respective sides of a guide shaft in a direction in which a recording medium is conveyed. The length... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090152792 - Solenoid device, automatic document feeder, and image forming apparatus: A solenoid device including a plunger, a solenoid configured to cause a displacement of the plunger, and a driving control unit configured to control driving of the solenoid. The driving control unit supplies current pulses to the solenoid and changes a pulse interval of the current pulses.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090152795 - Compact low paper sensor mechanism: A low paper sensor mechanism including first and second support rollers rotatable about a first and second rotational axis to support a paper supply roll, the first and second support rollers and rotational axes configured to translate in a path between a first position and a second position, first and... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Research Triangle Park

20090152796 - Multimode stack and shingle document feeder: A feeder for feeding media items from a tray includes a first nudger roller and a second nudger roller. The first and the second nudger roller are moveably mounted to the feeder. The first and the second nudger rollers are in a first position when a tray of a first... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20090152797 - Media sheet input devices for use in an image forming apparatus: Assemblies and methods to move media sheets from a media stack within an image forming apparatus. These may include a pivoting arm with an attached roller that contacts the media stack and rotates to move a top-most sheet from the media stack. A clutch may be operatively connected to the... Agent: John J. Mcardle, Jr. Lexmark International, Inc.

20090152798 - Media support pick device: Various apparatus and methods relating to positioning differently sized sheets on a shuttle for printing are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090152799 - Device of supplying paper medium: A medium supply device includes a receiving portion including a support plate to form a bottom surface of the receiving portion, a support portion being formed on the support plate to support a central portion of a bottom surface of paper medium, and a guide being formed on the support... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090152800 - Method and apparatus for monitoring the singling of sheet material: The invention starts out from monitoring the singling of sheet material, in particular of bank notes, by means of a singler having a drive and a control device for a monitoring and controlling of the singler, wherein a monitoring of place, time, orientation and state of the singled sheet material... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090152801 - Sheet feeding apparatus: A sheet feeding apparatus includes stacker for stacking a sheet material; a feed roller for separating the sheet material stacked on the stacker; a rotatable separation roller rotatable by being driven by the feed roller; and a torque limiter for controlling rotation of the separation roller; wherein a second or... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090152802 - Apparatus for pressing flat materials onto a transport module: An apparatus for pressing flat materials onto a transport module includes pressing elements acting on the flat material with a spring force through an opening in a feed table for flat materials. The feed table is mounted above a lower housing shell. The pressing elements are configured as spring elements... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090152803 - Recording apparatus: A recording apparatus has a paper cassette in which sheets are loaded and a cassette feeding roller that feeds the sheets. The paper cassette is configured to be inserted into the main body of the recording apparatus rearward from the front of the main body. The paper cassette can move... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090152804 - Mailpiece container for stacking mixed mail and method for stacking mail therein: A system is provided for stacking mail having an escort assembly for handling each mailpiece. The system comprises a containment device, a transport mechanism and a detachment mechanism. The containment device includes a base, vertical walls extending from the base and an open end for accepting the mailpieces therein, The... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein

20090152805 - Banknote handling apparatus: There is provided a paper sheet handling apparatus capable of processing a deviated banknote in a banknote storage bin so as to displace the banknote to an optional position. The banknote handling apparatus incorporates a deviation processing means making contact with at least one side of a banknote in a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090152806 - Sheet lateral positioning device: An apparatus for registering a sheet along a transport path, including a plurality of spaced apart sheet feeding nip sets of plural sheet feeding nips in the sheet transport path, the plural sheet feeding nips of the sheet feeding nip sets comprise plural drive wheels and plural mating idlers, steerable... Agent: Patent Documentation Center Xerox Corporation

20090152807 - Transport apparatus for flat materials to be printed: A transport apparatus for flat materials to be printed is used in a printing apparatus having a printing module. The transport apparatus is disposed in the printing apparatus in a stationary manner relative to a pressing apparatus which presses an item of mail onto the transport belt that acts on... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090152808 - Drive cylinder with movable grab: Sheets are conveyed through a printing or coating machine having at least one gripping assembly for gripping and holding a leading edge of a sheet to be transported and lying in at least one recess of the cylindrical transport drum and rotating with the cylindrical transport drum about its rotation... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20090152809 - Transport apparatus for flat materials to be printed: A transport apparatus for flat materials which are to be printed has a number of spacer pieces which lie axially parallel with respect to one another and are disposed at two ends of a bearing plate of a roller carrier between a first and a second shaped part plate. The... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090152810 - Paper sheet separating and accumulating apparatus: The invention provides a paper sheet separating and accumulating apparatus which prevents a discharged paper money from entering into an accumulating carrier path in the case of discharging the paper money, and inhibits a jam from being generated. The paper sheet separating and accumulating apparatus is provided with a movable... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20090152811 - Mailpiece container for stacking mixed mail and method for stacking mail therein: A system is provided for stacking mail having an escort assembly for handling each mailpiece. The system comprises a containment device, a transport mechanism and a detachment mechanism. The containment device includes a base, vertical walls extending from the base and an open end for accepting the mailpieces therein. The... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein

20090146361 - Document feeder flag assembly: An improved document feeder flag assembly is disclosed. The improved document feeder flag assembly allows single handed, on the fly loading of a document sorter. A method for loading a document sorting machine with a single hand, while the method of operating the machine is also disclosed. The document feeder... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20090146362 - Transportation device and image processing apparatus: A transportation device including first and second tray portions which are stacked relative to each other, first and second transportation openings included in the first and second tray portions, respectively, and a transportation path for a material which is formed between the first and second transportation openings. The first tray... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090146363 - Image forming apparatus: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: a plurality of paper feed trays in which paper sheets are to be stacked; paper feed units each provided to each of the plurality of paper feed trays, the paper feed units sucking or discharging air in accordance with setting values corresponding to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090146364 - Method and device for merging two flows of objects: A method for transporting and merging two flows of objects, in particular flat mail items, includes providing each of the two object flows with at least two respective objects. The two object flows follow one another in each respective transport path. One transport path merges into the other transport path.... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090146365 - Paper feeder and image processing apparatus using the same: A paper feeder and an image processing apparatus using the same are provided. The paper feeder includes a feeding plate, a paper guide, a paper-feeding unit and a friction provider. The feeding plate is for supporting at least one sheet of paper. The paper guide is disposed on a side... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090146366 - Cash handling system: The invention relates to a system for transporting a sheaf of notes from a storage location to a dispensing outlet. The system comprises a conveyor apparatus, a carrier within which the sheaf is transported through the conveyor apparatus, and an extractor for removing the sheaf from the carrier. The carrier... Agent: Berliner & Associates

20090146367 - Sheet feeder, image forming apparatus having the same, and method for sheet feeding: A sheet feeder includes a sheet feed tray on which a first sheet bundle is stacked at a first position where sheet feeding to a conveyance path can be performed, and a conveyance tray on which a second sheet bundle is stacked at a second position adjacent to the sheet... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090146368 - Sheet stacking apparatus and image forming system: Operation of the sheet stacking apparatus 2 is controlled so that the stage 271 descends in accordance with the amount of the sheet leaded, and when a job executed in the image forming apparatus 1 is completed, the stage 271 automatically moves to the sheet removing position.... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090146369 - Sheet stacking apparatus, sheet processing apparatus, and image forming apparatus: A sheet stacking apparatus includes: a stacking portion which stacks a discharged sheet thereon; a housing portion which can support the stacking portion so as to lift and lower the stacking portion; and a lifting and lowering mechanism which lifts and lowers the stacking portion. In the sheet stacking apparatus,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090146370 - Method for sensing paper skew and method for correcting paper skew: A method for sensing a paper skew adapted for a device having a paper feeding mechanism is provided. The device has a feed sensor which is fixed at a start position of paper feeding; and, a position sensor which moves in a direction perpendicular to a direction of paper feeding... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090146371 - Printing integration system: This disclosure relates to a printing integration system. Specifically, this disclosure provides a means to integrate one or more pairs of substantially vertically aligned marking engines using an intersection transport. The intersection transport includes a media sheet input intersection transport, a single horizontal transport, and a media sheet output intersection... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090140484 - Sheet feed devices and image recording apparatus comprising such sheet feed devices: A sheet feed device includes a first tray comprising a first plate configured to receive a first plurality of sheets thereon, in which the first tray includes a support, and a second tray positioned on the first tray. The second tray includes a first and a second side portion, and... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090140485 - Recording material guiding device and recording apparatus: In a recording material guiding device, a second guide member is comprised of a hopper swinging surface, an edge guide member including a second side end guide member, and a liftup preventing guide. The hopper swinging surface is engaged in an opening provided in a side surface of a reference... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090140486 - Sheet conveying device and image forming apparatus: A spring is bridged between a pair of press levers, and a pair of driven rollers is pressurized uniformly, so that clamping and conveying force of the sheet of paper P on the front side and rear side by conveying rollers and the driven rollers is made equal such as... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090140488 - Document processing machine: A document processing machine including a document feeder including a support intended to receive a stack of documents, and a unit for extracting documents from the stack of documents and transferring the extracted documents onto a horizontal support of a downstream processing unit, wherein the support of the document feeder... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20090140487 - Option-type paper feeding device: The invention provides an option-type paper feeding device that can contribute to enhancing printing operation efficiency while taking advantage of variable printing speed in a printing apparatus. A high-volume paper feeding device includes: a paper stacking section; a paper feeding mechanism; and an intermediate transport section connected to a paper... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090140490 - Document conveying devices and image reading devices comprising such document conveying devices: A document conveying device includes a conveying path and a feed unit. The feed unit includes a tray including a document positioning surface configured to receive documents thereon, in which the document positioning surface has a hole formed therethrough. The feed unit also includes a separation roller which is rotatably... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090140489 - Measuring device, sheet-shaped material transporting device, image formation device and measuring method: A measuring device, wherein a feed-out member feeds out an uppermost one of plural sheet-shaped materials stacked on a base by rotating in contact with the uppermost sheet-shaped material, has a detector that detects a force imparted to the base and the sheet-shaped materials not in contact with the feed-out... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090140491 - Sheet transporting apparatus: A sheet transporting apparatus that can realize a jam disposal mechanism with simple structure and that can achieve size reduction has a manual operation unit that is fitted coaxially with a roller shaft of an upstream-side transport roller or with a roller shaft of a downstream-side transport roller and that,... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell