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7597325 Method and device for conveying sheetlike articles  
The invention relates to a device for conveying sheetlike articles, in particular printed sheets, by which conveyed sheetlike articles may optionally be fed to various conveying routes, various...
7562871 Pressurized air assist system for feeding overlapping sheets to an interfolder  
A sheet supply system, for use in supplying overlapped sheets to an interfolder, includes a bed roll on which a web is cut into successive sheets. The sheets are supplied to a sheet supply passage...
7549636 System and method for ejecting print media from a moveable shuttle  
In one embodiment a media ejection system is disclosed for a printer having a stationary print head and a moveable shuttle configured to hold print media via vacuum pressure while moving the print...
7464929 Apparatus for carrying or guiding a printing material sheet  
An apparatus for carrying or guiding a printing material sheet on an air cushion between a nozzle surface and the printing material sheet. The apparatus has first nozzle pairs which are arranged in...
7448616 Attacher having soft nip rollers  
A method for positioning a second flat item atop a flat first item includes the steps of: providing a first conveyor for transporting the first item and rotatably mounting a hard nip roller on an...
7431290 Device for guiding a print carrier, method for producing a print carrier guiding device and machine for processing a print carrier  
A device for guiding a print carrier includes nozzles. The nozzles have tongues bounded by at least one at least approximately comb-shaped contour. A machine includes the guiding device and a...
7392984 Process for guiding printing media and printing media guide  
Guiding a printing medium that is being conveyed along a travel path in a printing machine, whereby the printing medium is not making contact along at least one edge. A stream of sucked air ( 9 )...
7387298 Synchronized vacuum belt feeder  
A vacuum belt feeder comprising a means of conveyance having a pitch, for retrieving items from a supply zone, and then distributing them at target locations in a discharge zone.
7384036 Sheet handling device for wide format sheets  
A sheet handling device for wide format sheets including a sheet support plate having a top surface containing suction holes which are connected to at least one suction chamber, the at least one...
7384035 Configuration for generating throttled blowing air or suction air  
A configuration for generating blowing air or suction air, in particular a directing element in a sheet-processing machine, has a throttle path formed with vortex chambers. The vortex chambers...
7296792 Self-valving vacuum distribution for a belt-driven sheet conveyor  
A self-valving vacuum distribution system for a belt-driven sheet conveyor utilizes the sheets to automatically open vacuum control valves sequentially in a downstream direction as the sheet is...
7219889 Sheet-processing machine with a pneumatic sheet-guiding device  
A sheet-processing machine, particularly a rotary printing press, includes a blast-air supply system and a pneumatic sheet-guiding device connected thereto. The sheet-guiding device has a...
6969066 Passive vacuum transport  
An apparatus for improving sheet feeding in a direction of movement to a process station, including: a contact surface having ribs spaced along contact surface in the direction of movement,...
6957035 Vacuum assisted fuser entrance guide for an electrophotographic machine  
A fuser entrance guide in an electrophotographic apparatus, which supports a sheet of copy medium as it enters the fuser section. The guide has a curved base plate that has vacuum ports both at the...
6948430 Printing plate conveyor system  
A conveyor system for transporting a printing plate in a platemaking system includes: a carriage riding on a track and one or more low friction substantially horizontal planar support surfaces...
6927841 Holddown device for hardcopy apparatus  
A media holddown device a plastics vacuum guide attached to a sheet metal vacuum beam, the guide includes vacuum chambers in communication with the beam through openings to control the negative...
6896258 Sheet-fed press and intermediate cylinder for sheet-fed press  
An intermediate cylinder comprising a main body, and a plurality of suction boxes formed in the main body at positions different with respect to a rotation axis of the main body. The intermediate...
6834949 Device for simultaneously holding by suction and transporting a sheet  
A device for holding a sheetlike article on a movable underlying surface for transporting the sheetlike article in at least one direction selected from the group consisting of a direction into and...
6793217 Stacker for die-cut products  
A stacker for stacking labels die-cut from a continuous web by a die cutter into vertical stacks. The stacker is of the kind that includes at least one stacking chute having an upper opening and a...
6739775 Apparatus for positioning receiving material during the application of an ink image thereto  
Apparatus for keeping a receiving material flat against a plate during the application of an ink image thereto, wherein the plate is provided with V-shaped channels which extend in the direction in...
6663550 Smoothing device for flat printing materials  
A smoothing device includes guide surface sections for a flat printing material whose leading edge is pulled in a direction of travel over the guide surface sections. The guide surface sections...
6648326 Delivery for a machine processing flat printing materials  
A delivery for a machine for processing flat printing materials, includes a sheet guide surface with suction openings opening into the sheet guide surface, a suction chamber communicating with the...
6419217 Drawings-in- of paper webs  
A paper web is drawn into a printing and can be guided along a selected one of several paths. The paper web is weakened along a line of separation and is then held by a retaining system that can...
6386536 Hardcopy apparatus and method for loading media  
A hardcopy apparatus including a main roller and a loading mechanism to load a medium into the hardcopy apparatus, said loading mechanism including a vacuum holddown input unit to hold media down...
6322265 Vacuum workbed  
A wide format thermal printer for printing a multicolor graphic product on a printing sheet; a vacuum workbed for supporting a sheet material for performing work operations, such as cutting,...
6270075 Vacuum transport for use in a xerographic printer  
A vacuum transport for a printer or copier guides a sheet through a machine, such as from a photoreceptor toward a fuser. The vacuum transport includes a partially enclosed vacuum chamber having...
6264190 Suction unit in sheet-fed rotary printing press  
A suction unit in a sheet-fed rotary printing press includes a plurality of suction wheels, a plurality of supports, a drive shaft, a motor, a shaft, a coupling, a bearing, a sleeve, and a gear,...
6234472 Hardcopy apparatus and method for outputting media  
A hardcopy apparatus comprising a main roller and an outputting mechanism for moving a medium outside the hardcopy apparatus, said outputting mechanism being characterised by including a vacuum...
6179285 Media transport assembly incorporating vacuum grooves to flatten sheet  
A media transport system for transporting a media sheet in a marking device includes an entrance drive assembly, an exit drive assembly and a vacuum generator that applies a vacuum force to the...
6155558 Feeding table for sheets in a feeder of a sheet-fed printing press  
A feeder for a sheet-fed printing press includes a feeding table having a surface which, at least in subregions thereof, is formed with through openings, over which sheets separable or singlable by...
6152444 Shuttling media movement system for hardcopy devices  
A shuttling media movement system moves media in a hardcopy device, such as an inkjet printing mechanism, a facsimile machine or a multi-function device. The shuttling media movement system has a...
6119052 Market-based control system for controlling object motion with smart matter  
A market based controller controls the motion of an object on a transport assembly. The transport assembly is formed using sensors and actuators that are proximately coupled in physical space. To...
6086063 Sheet stacking apparatus  
A sheet stacking apparatus includes laterally spaced, longitudinally arranged conveyors for supporting edge regions of a sheet, the conveyors driven to deliver the sheet horizontally to a stacking...
6039316 Multi-hierarchical control system for controlling object motion with smart matter  
Embedded in a transport assembly are arrays of microelectromechanical devices for detecting and making adjustments for perceived changes in their environment. The arrays of sensors and actuators...
6027112 Adaptive multiagent control system for controlling object motion with smart matter  
A multi-agent control system controls a transport assembly for moving objects. The transport assembly is formed using sensors and actuators that are proximately coupled in physical space. The...
5836247 Contact-free sheet guidance device in a sheet-fed printing press  
A contact-free sheet guidance device in a sheet-fed printing press, having a sheet guiding surface, includes at least one blast air nozzle formed in the sheet guiding surface and having a cross...
5749039 Collapsible air plenum  
A substrate transport assembly having an air mover that moves air through an air housing such that a substrate is biased against a drive member. The substrate assembly further includes an air...
5607148 Device for removing copies diverted from a conveyed stream thereof  
Device for removing copies diverted from a conveyed stream thereof in a rotary cross cutter or delivery in a sheet-fed rotary printing press includes a device for decelerating the copies which are...
5501148 Automatic sheet printing and alignment system  
An automatic sheet printing and alignment system includes a holding table; a transport system for moving the table through a plurality of stations; a first station for positioning a sheet on the...
5431382 Fabric panel feed system  
A fabric panel loader for automatically feeding a fabric panel from a stack of fabric pieces to a work station. The apparatus includes a fabric pickup assembly for removing the fabric panel from...
5329301 Device for clamping sheet-shaped recording material  
The invention is directed to a device for clamping sheet-shaped film material onto the recording drum of a reproduction device and is directed to the operation of this device. The recording drum...
5270733 Material transport that selectively contacts different materials  
An imaging system comprising a source of light movable with respect to a writing element and projectable thereon to generate an image, a focusing system is provided for focusing a light source...
5244343 Materials separating equipment  
A material handling system employs a sheet separator capable of handling sheets of varied thickness and flexibility and a positioner which repetitively positions sheets relative to a pressing unit...
5060928 Apparatus for the depositing of sheets at a stacking location  
The invention relates to an apparatus for the depositing of sheets at a stacking location. The apparatus has an overhead suspension arrangement 15 which is fed with blasted air and extends some way...
5049030 Materials handling equipment  
A material handling system employs a sheet separator capable of handling sheets of varied thickness and flexibility and a positioner which repetitively positions sheets relative to a pressing unit...
5048811 Single head device for removing alternate articles from a stack of the articles  
A method and apparatus for removing the uppermost article from a stack of alternating first and second articles. The apparatus includes a plurality of pins and a plurality of suction devices, the...
5019206 Apparatus for the insertion of laminated packs into hot presses  
A press apparatus is provided wherein the vacuum suction lifters, due to a swing-in movement, can be moved more quickly into the lifting position for attaching the finish-coated panel by suction...
5016060 Paper transporting device for an image recorder having guide ribs on a transport surface  
A paper transporting device for an image recorder for transporting, after a visible image formed on the surface of an image carrier by an electrophotographic procedure has been transferred to a...
5004221 Device for conveying plate-like matter within a rotary printing machine  
A device for conveying a sheet of material from one printing unit to a second printing unit consisting of a frame having horizontal lateral beams, a plurality of cross-shafts extending between the...
4957283 Vacuum system for feeding sheets  
A pneumatic system which in the preferred embodiment includes a pump having a primary suction port and a secondary suction port, with the pump being operable for generating vacuum pressures at both...
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