Sheet feeding or delivering inventions

20080169596 - Duplex automatic sheet feeder: In a duplex automatic sheet feeder, a first passageway is connected to a sheet input tray for storing sheets. A sheet feeding mechanism feeds the sheets one by one to the first passageway. A second passageway is connected to the first and third passageways and has an image processing region.... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080169597 - Apparatus and method for aligning sheet stacks and sheet processing machine having the apparatus: An apparatus for aligning sheet stacks in a feeder of sheet processing machines includes a motor-driven aligning plate and a movement converter situated between a motor drive and the aligning plate. The movement converter forces a movement describing approximately a circular path onto the aligning plate. A vertical speed component... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080169598 - Document feeder: A document feeder includes a casing, a sheet pick-up module, a stopper and a swing lever. The casing includes a sheet feeding channel therein. The sheet pick-up module is pivotally mounted above the sheet feeding channel, and movable between a sheet feeding position and a standby position. The stopper is... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080169599 - Automatic sheet feeder having a flexible element on one end of the pick shaft: In an auto sheet feeder, a flexible element is disposed monolithically at one end of a pick shaft, the flexible element capable of moving close to or away from the center of a ratchet. A fluctuation section of the flexible element comprises a pawl for engaging with an inner tooth... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080169600 - Paper feed cartridge: This paper feed cartridge includes a paper storage member for storing papers supplied to an image generating apparatus and a paper push-up member provided on the bottom of the paper storage member for receiving the papers thereon and pushing up the papers to a position for coming into contact with... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080169601 - Back-edge braking system: A sheet processing machine for the processing of sheets of paper, cardboard, and the like, includes at least one processing station, one delivery unit, one sheet transport system including circulating gripper carts, which are driven by individually actuated linear drives, a machine control system and braking devices located in the... Agent: Heidelberger Drucksmaschinen Aktiengeselischaft C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080169602 - Sheet conveying device: A sheet conveying device of an aspect of the invention includes: a conveying path that allows a sheet to be conveyed and includes a first guide face and a second guide face opposing and apart from each other at a predetermined interval; a sheet conveying unit disposed on the conveying... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080164649 - Apparatus for feeding sheets to a sheet processing machine and sheet-fed rotary printing press having the apparatus: An apparatus for feeding sheets to a sheet processing machine smoothes out and fixes a sheet through the use of a suction groove disposed transversely relative to a sheet transport direction, before the sheet is gripped by an onward transport device. A sheet-fed rotary printing press having the apparatus is... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080164650 - Feeder assembly for laser imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus including a media source having a plurality of sheets of photothermographic imaging media contained therein, an exposure unit including an input engagement point, an output engagement point, and a laser module positioned therebetween, and a driven roller pair forming a nip. A driven roller pair is configured... Agent: Carestream Health Inc,

20080164651 - Separation roller and sheet separating mechanism using the same: A separation roller includes a body, a shaft assembly and two friction roller assemblies. The shaft assembly is connected to the body. The friction roller assembly is mounted on two ends of the shaft assembly and located on two sides of the body. The friction roller assembly contacts a sheet,... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080164652 - Feed roller, manufacturing method of feed drive roller, recording apparatus: There is provided a feed roller that includes a feed drive roller and a teeth roller drivenly rotated by making contact with the feed drive roller, wherein the circumferential surface of the feed drive roller is equipped with a groove with which a part of the teeth roller makes contact.... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080157458 - Paper feeder having hard nip and flexible nip: A friction feeder apparatus for handling sheets of paper of differing thicknesses includes a first plurality of laterally spaced apart transport belts positioned in underlying relation to the paper and a second plurality of laterally spaced apart separator wheels positioned in overlying relation to the paper. The transport belts are... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080157460 - Sheet feeding apparatus and image recording apparatus: A sheet feeding apparatus including: a sheet holding portion which holds a sheet; a feed path which guides the sheet supplied from the sheet holding portion; a driving source which can rotate in two opposite directions; a feeder roller which is disposed in the feed path and rotated by a... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080157459 - Sheet feeding device: A sheet feeding device includes a guiding member having an upper guiding surface for guiding the upper surface of a document and a lower guiding surface for guiding the lower surface of the document to guide the document to a support portion. The guiding member is movable to a set... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080157462 - Card sending device: A card sending device for use with cards may include a card storage part in which a plurality of cards are stacked and stored, a gate through which a card is capable of passing to an outside of the card storage part, a sending pawl which is capable of engaging... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080157461 - Sheet feed method and apparatus: The present disclosure relates to a sheet feeding method and apparatus by which sheets of material can be fed, one at a time, into a processing or finishing machine. The present disclosure includes a continuously moving feed means that is driven and moves continuously at line speed. The continuously moving... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080157463 - Paper sheet carrying apparatus: A paper sheet carrying apparatus is provided that can remove a sheet remained in a path due to paper jam, etc. using a simple mechanism if a sheet remains in any one of two sheet paths or straddles both paths. A sheet path of a first unit is linked to... Agent: Mark D. Saralino ( Sharp ) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080157464 - Media drive: Various embodiments and methods relating to a media drive are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080157465 - Sheet conveying device and image forming apparatus: A sheet conveying device which is capable of stably conveying a sheet, irrespective of the material of the sheet. A first conveying roller pair nips and conveys a sheet. A drive motor drives the first conveying roller pair. An encoder detects the rotational speed of the first conveying roller pair.... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080157466 - Sheet stacking apparatus and image forming apparatus: A discharged sheet is conveyed, by a sheet conveying portion movable above sheet stacking portions while supporting a sheet, to selected one among plural sheet stacking portions. When the sheet is conveyed to the selected sheet stacking portion by the sheet conveying portion, a member for preventing a bringing-together provided... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080150215 - Selective drive mechanism: There is provided a sheet handling machine (1) comprising: a drive source (300); a first driven shaft (336, 384) arranged to receive drive from said drive source at least when said drive source drives in a first direction of rotation; a feed roller shaft (339, 390); a feed roller (102,... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080150216 - Paper sheets storage and paper sheets handling apparatus: The provides a two money kinds recycle box provided with a plurality of paper money accumulating portions and storing and feeding the paper money at one position, thereby simplifying a carrier path structure of a whole of a paper money inputting and outputting machine provided with the two money kinds... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080150217 - Image recording apparatus: One aspect of the invention provides an image recording apparatus including: an image recording unit; a first sheet feeding cassette; a second sheet feeding cassette including a second placing portion and a discharged sheet placing portion disposed an upstream side of a second placing portion with respect to the first... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080150218 - Media feeder feed rate: In accordance with the present disclosure, there is provided a printing system. The printing system comprises a sheet feeding apparatus for feeding cut sheets in timed relationship into a sheet processor having a pitch. The sheet feeding apparatus includes a fixed take away roller, a first transport roller, and a... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080150219 - Sheet feeding device: Sheet feeding device including: a tray unit having a feeding tray for supporting a loaded-on document's trailing end, and a tilting tray for supporting its leading end; a feeding unit that feeds loaded-on documents from off the feeding and tilting trays; and an elevating mechanism that raises/lowers the tilting tray... Agent: Judge Patent Associates

20080150220 - Friction backup roller for media picking: A friction backup roller assembly for a peripheral device, comprising an auto-compensating mechanism having a pick tire at one end, a media tray disposed adjacent to the auto-compensating mechanism, a backup roller extending through an aperture in the media tray, the backup roller having a tire, the auto-compensating mechanism pivotally... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080150221 - Sheet feeder: A sheet feeder is provided. The sheet feeder includes a sheet tray which retains a sheet; a first rotating body for applying a first conveying force to the sheet retained in the sheet tray; a second rotating body for applying a second conveying force to the sheet retained in the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080150222 - Sheet conveyor and image reading apparatus: A sheet conveyor includes a conveying path along which a sheet is conveyed and a transparent member disposed on the conveying path and including a surface facing the sheet being conveyed. The transparent member including a reference line extending across the transparent member in a direction perpendicular to the conveying... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080150223 - High speed plate pick up device: A system for removing an interleaf sheet contacting a plate sheet used in an imaging system, comprised of a substantially horizontal member; an assembly comprising at least two elements configured to directly contact and pick up the interleaf sheet, a portion of said assembly connected to said member; a motor... Agent: Howard J. Greenwald P.c.

20080150224 - Sheet handling machine: A sheet handling apparatus for handling a sheet therein, comprises, a first body including a first transfer path along which the sheet is driven to be moved, a second body including a second transfer path along which the sheet is driven to be moved, an interface area through which the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080150225 - Recording apparatus and recording method for recording apparatus: A recording apparatus that performs a recording on a recording medium comprising: the recording operation a transport unit, a recording unit, a feed starting unit that starts feeding of the recording medium by the recording unit that has moved to a position on a moving path of the recording unit... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080150227 - Image forming apparatus: A supporting unit is mounted on a body of an image forming apparatus in a swingable manner around a swing fulcrum. A through shaft serves as the swing fulcrum, which is inserted into the supporting unit through the swing fulcrum so that both ends of the through shaft are supported... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080150226 - Sheet material information acquiring device and sheet material processing apparatus including same: A sheet member information acquiring device has a load-applying member configured to come into contact with the sheet member and to apply a load to the sheet member, a rotation bearing configured to hold the load-applying member rotatably around at least a rotation axis, a protrusion provided at the end... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080150228 - Sheet processing apparatus: A sheet processing apparatus according to this invention is for sorting and discharging papers supplied from an image forming apparatus, and includes an alignment device configured to shift the papers transported from the image forming apparatus into a direction orthogonal to the direction of the transport and thus align the... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080150229 - Transport for printing systems: A transport system for cut sheet media has a first and second cylinder to form a nip, a support subsystem to transport edges of cut sheets having at least one image into and out of the nip, and an array of contact points on each cylinder to make contact with... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom/parc