Patents Assigned to The Hedman Company
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Patent number: 7214176Abstract: A paper folding machine is provided including a housing having upper and lower fold plates constructed for quick and easy removal of the upper plates from the machine so that repairs can be made. The plates include a paper stop and an adjuster connected to the paper stop for adjusting the position of the paper stop. The upper plate partially encloses a work area and the upper plate has a slot for receiving the adjuster therethrough for easy adjustment and/or removal of the upper plate.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2004Date of Patent: May 8, 2007Assignee: The Hedman CompanyInventors: Richard Abramson, Kenneth St. John
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Patent number: 7156799Abstract: A paper folding machine is provided including a housing having upper and lower fold plates constructed for quick and easy removal of the upper plates from the machine so that repairs may be made. The machine includes an automatically adjustable stacking arm movable to positions corresponding to the settings of the machine for fold type and size.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2005Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: The Hedman CompanyInventors: Richard Abramson, John Kosla
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Patent number: 7125374Abstract: A paper folding machine is provided including a housing having upper and lower fold plates constructed for quick and easy removal of the upper plates from the machine so that repairs may be made. The machine includes an automatically adjustable stacking arm movable to positions corresponding to the settings of the machine for fold type and size.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2004Date of Patent: October 24, 2006Assignee: The Hedman CompanyInventors: Richard Abramson, John Kosla
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Patent number: 6153048Abstract: A mounting arrangement is provided for rollers in a pressure sealer wherein a folded business form is fed along a processing path between at least one pair of cooperating, rotating, first and second rollers. A support structure is provided for holding the rollers with the first roller in a fixed location while accommodating movement of a second roller along a plane in either of two opposite directions toward and away from the first roller. Each roller has a pressure-applying, cylindrical surface. Each roller has two spaced-apart bearing structures for engaging the support structure to accommodate rotation of a respective one of the rollers and for engaging one of the bearing structures of the other rollers to define a predetermined minimum spacing between the cylindrical surfaces of the first and second rollers. At least one spring is provided for urging the bearing structures of the second roller toward the bearing structures of the first roller.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 1999Date of Patent: November 28, 2000Assignee: The Hedman CompanyInventors: Richard J. Abramson, Rudolph Retzl
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Patent number: 5391138Abstract: A sheet feeding system as provided for use in a buckle-type sheet folding apparatus which has sheet-receiving chutes and rollers for folding a sheet. The system includes a frame in which the sheet-receiving chutes are disposed and in which two of the rollers are rotatably mounted in parallel adjacent the chutes. A roller holder is removably mounted in the frame. An entrance roller and a coacting main roller are rotatably mounted in the holder parallel to the two rollers to define an intake nip.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 1993Date of Patent: February 21, 1995Assignee: The Hedman CompanyInventors: Richard J. Abramson, Rudolf Retzl
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Patent number: 5280962Abstract: A check protector comprises a print head operating under microprocessor control to print on a medium two separate patterns of characters, each indicating the same amount, preselected by means of a keyboard, and for printing immediately before one of the patterns an intelligible message indicating that the predetermined amount is a maximum amount, thereby to produce a secure financial instrument which is difficult to alter or forge for the purpose of increasing the amount.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 1992Date of Patent: January 25, 1994Assignee: The Hedman CompanyInventors: Ronald F. Wochinski, Victor L. Salmons
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Patent number: 5100249Abstract: The check protector comprises a print head with a plurality of parallel pins in a vertical line perpendicular to the direction of movement of the head. The ribbon in the check protector has at least two bands, one band being associated with half the print wires and the other band being associated with the rest of the print wires. In this manner, the amount on a check is imprinted in alternating bands of color to make alteration difficult.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 1990Date of Patent: March 31, 1992Assignee: The Hedman CompanyInventors: Ronald F. Wochinski, John S. Schubert, Victor L. Salmons
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Patent number: 4307970Abstract: A shorthand typewriting machine includes a standard keyboard having two rows of upper keys respectively corresponding to consonant characters and an asterisk character all positioned for operation by the fingers, and a lower row of keys respectively corresponding to vowel characters and disposed for operation by the thumbs. An extension key is attachable to the asterisk key for ganged operation therewith, the extension key being disposed in use in the lower row of keys for operation by the thumbs in conjunction with any one or more of the vowel keys for readily printing an asterisk character in conjunction with a vowel character to indicate the long sound thereof. A retractable extension key is shown which can be retracted when not in use and a detachable extension key is shown which can be removed completely from the asterisk key when not in use.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 1980Date of Patent: December 29, 1981Assignee: The Hedman CompanyInventors: Carroll B. McGaughey, Jr., John Kreidich
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Patent number: D503728Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2003Date of Patent: April 5, 2005Assignee: The Hedman CompanyInventors: Kieron Hiuhon Tse, Jason Grochowski
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Patent number: D277680Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1982Date of Patent: February 19, 1985Assignee: The Hedman CompanyInventor: Kenneth M. Hattori, Jr.
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Patent number: D331770Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 1991Date of Patent: December 15, 1992Assignee: The Hedman CompanyInventors: John Kriedich, John S. Schubert, Julian R. Haynes
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Patent number: D338032Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 1992Date of Patent: August 3, 1993Assignee: The Hedman CompanyInventor: Arnold N. Wagers